I feel completely duped by this album, I think I will call it R&B for people that have never heard R&B. you see I was promised R&B and soul from all the promotion, with a gospel folk edge. But that is not what this is at all. Or maybe I am some how confused about what any of that means. To me this just sounds like emotional girly music. By which I mean that genre that is focused entirely on selling to female teenagers, who feel angst ridden. Or maybe I just hate her voice, because there are some interesting ideas on here. There is some really chilled out downer rock.
I mean I was just expecting with all this motown revival and all that crap that’s going on there might be something interesting to all of this, but I just found, it to be mostly like cheesy folk music, with a little built of rock in it. But the vocals are pure cheesy folk. Like the kind of thing you’d expect to hear in Starbucks. Yeah that is exactly it. Maybe if you love those female vocalists that they play at Starbucks, you will absolutely love this. Maybe that is the problem with me, I’m kinda biased against that sort of singing. I mean I’m really sorry and all, but I am. I don’t find it relaxing, poetic or beautiful. Maybe I am just a bad person, and I just don’t get it I guess I’ll never know and that really is sad for me. It doesn’t make you a bad person to like Starbucks, or the things they sell, I mean musically, I suppose.
Though Starbucks is pretty evil overall. I mean I don’t trust them at all. I mean they fight unions and things that isn’t a good. And I don’t trust any of this trying to work with the actual coffee producers, I don’t think any of that is true. And I think they’re coffee tastes like crap. Which is probably the biggest problem I have. If I loved the coffee think I’d be more forgiving of their indiscretions. But that could just be me. I mean a lot of people do like their coffee, a lot of people swear buy it even. Believe me, I know, I ‘ve met people that have told me this. Yeah I’ve even known people that would choose it over anything else, especially Second Cup, which I don’t really understand because I think Second Cup’s coffee tastes like coffee. It’s still not good but it doesn’t taste like candy. But maybe that is where I am wrong, maybe my taste buds are just not developed enough to be able to taste real serious coffee, and maybe it’s the same with music, I’m just not developed or strong enough to see the subtleties that others see. I guess that really sucks for me, huh? I really have to work on that. Well I’m just going to have to listen to Kelly McRae over and over till I can appreciate it, more. And then I will be a better person.
