I should say first I didn’t write this. I didn’t think I’d be able to objectionally review this one so I had a freind do it and I’m posting her thoughts. She’s not a big fan of Miranda but admits to liking some of her stuff. So without further ado here’s Kawenniiostha’s thoughs on Revolution (If you can properly pronounce her name I’d be impressed).
WHITE LIAR
sounds so old school at first, old school lyrics and rhymes, then throws in something like “turpentine” – even the chords and the instruments are old school, but it sounds like they’ve been run through a synth
ONLY PRETTIER
sounds like a drunken Carnival theme, and just as confusin’ meaning. What the hell she talkin’ about? There’s too much distortion to her voice. you pay more attention to the weird ass music then her voice and the godawful lame-ass notes of the hook, which is cute but gets washed out in the trying-too-hardness of the whole song.
DEAD FLOWERS
I know the hook is the beautiful imagery of a withered flower and all, but seriously, the hook totally falls flat. Instead of feeling for the “dead flowers” i felt for the dead hook. It didn’t do what it was supposed to. Not sharp enough, I guess? Probably blunted by lack of life. Being dead does that.
ME AND YOUR CIGARETTES
Now this one could have been awesomely great. If it weren’t for the damn synth in the back ground. Why couldn’t she have been more old school with this one? It might’ve been my new favorite anthem. The most especially depressing part is right after the line, the hook, “me and your cigarettes” there’s like, fucking bells or something, and it ends up sounding like a psuedo-christmas song! It reminds me kind of that new Coldplay song about Saint Peter or something, which makes me think if the Bible had a soundtrack, that song be’d on it.
MAINTAIN THE PAIN
I don’t even know what to say. Oh yeah, more fucking Synth, that’s what. Why? I don’t understand. I wouldn’t even count it as a country song.
AIRSTREAM SONG
Nice to see she ain’t breaking her neck tryin’ to be Bad-ass on this song. Its Lovely. I like it. So old school and …daintily feminine, rather than this leather clad-fuck-you-butchness vibe that I get from the rest of her songs.
MAKIN’ PLANS
… … Beautiful. I will lose faith in the world (what little I have left) if this never becomes a single. Only one I listened to more than once.
TIME TO GET A GUN
Nice. Can’t help thinking a man would sing it soo much better though, especially some deep rumbling whisky-voiced Jamey Johnson or the dude who sung “smoke rings in the dark”
SOMEWHERE TROUBLE
For some reason I buzzed out and then thought I was listening to “Cherry Pie” from Warrant, the 80’s hair metal band. Probably cause it sounds JUST LIKE IT. Right down to the singing-in-a-warehouse sound and the shouting backup singers.
THE HOUSE THAT BUILT ME
Jesus, why she keep going for the tough lesbo-thing when she does ballads sooo much better? There’s absolutely nothing wr- well wait, aside from that dreamy, whispy sound quality as if she’s standing ten feet from the mike and singing through about twenty layers of gauze- there’s nothing wrong with this song. The tone, the sound, the way she sings it, the catch and lyrics are all great. I don’t think its too radio friendly, but its award worthy (I think).
LOVE SONG
I missed this one entirely. It was like two minutes of Fluff that floated by and I forgot about it after it was immedietley out of sight, and didn’t even bother to look back to see where it might have gone.
HEART LIKE MINE
I don’t quite know what she’s trying to get at here. That Jesus is a kindred bad-ass Spirit? If that’s the case, well… I can’t see that going over very well. Its cute, like it, even though the last verse is really muddled, cuz I thought she was talking about her father, until I took out the lyric book and checked, “Nope, she means Jesus” which is awesome, but I think it could have been a longer song. She could have done so much more with it. Just cuz Jesus drank wine, he’s a bad ass? One or two more verses of this quirky kinda story might’ve helped.
SIN FOR A SIN
More echo. What’s wrong with this woman? Or her mixing crew? Is it a trend? TELL ME! Its a good song though, and while I have no respect for her Tough Gal image, the “toughness” is the universal cry of someone being cheated on, and the Biblical touch was nice. Doubt its radio friendly, though. Funny how all her better songs are not.
THAT’S HOW THE WORLD GOES ROUND
there’s too much going on in this song. She’s practically drowned out. sounds almost like an Irish ditty, which is fun, but then that dreamy sound too it, and the twenty or so layers of sound, the two rhythm guitars, the base guitar, the lead guitar, her double voice, the backup singers, the drums, a tambourine, then that fucking filter over it all…kinda turns off the spunk that the song originally had. If she’s just stuck with the rhythm guitars and the banjo, I think it would have been a winner. Oh, and the backup singers. They have to go, too. They always have to go.
VIRGINA BLUEBELL
Went for a R&B vibe here. Nice. But, that goddam echo bullshit thats in EVERY FUCKING SONG on this album is really starting to get to me at this point. It actually goes with this song, but by song 15 your still doin the same FUCKING thing you’ve been doin EVERY song, well….somethings wrong there. Maybe its her style, I dunno, but I can tell you that it gets old fast. makes me feel like she’s lying, sprucing up her voice to sound better because she can’t sing. Which is DUMB because she obviously CAN sing well. I do like the little discordant thing running under the whole song, till it takes over at the end. Don’t ask me what the song was about though. It tickled my ears, but it failed to make me listen. I kinda didn’t want to by this point, if I haven’t already made that obvious by now.
