Artist: Charli XCX
Release: 26 February 2016
Producer: SOPHIE
Genre: bubblegum bass, experimental pop, trap, electronic
Label: Vroom Vroom Recordings
Length: 12:19
So Skrillex is popular now, that's a shame. With what can I annoy the neighbours if I don't have Skrillex's dubstep. Because what he does now is making tamed beats for JUSTIN BLIEBER. We need a new voice, somebody polarizing and experimental who makes great music. Somebody like SOPHIE.
So, last year a producer, SOPHIE, became hugely popular because of his production style and uniqueness and caught the attention of Charli XCX, for whom he produced this album. Now, as a joke I thought that Charli XCX after making a synthpop album and a pop-rock album will make an experimental hip-hop, trap inspired album. I was totally right on that.
So now, as somebody uninformed and dumb I listened to this EP without any background and thought that was a piece of shit but after I listened to it a couple of times I really like it. I almost love, it is bound to be a very very polarizing review but yeah I'll defend it any day. It is really good in my opinion.
1. Vroom Vroom
Charli's rapping is so cringe worthy, and all the build-up is destroyed by the pre-chorus and OMG the Vroom Vroom effect is so bad and that "Beep beep" is just laughable. But this song is so perfect in all it's messiness. This is the hardest hitting song on the EP besides
Trophy.
Quotable:
"Beep beep, so let's ride"
Track rating: 10/10
2.
Paradise ft. Hannah Diamond
The "Charli XCX ft. Alvin & The Chipmunks" comparison is really warranted. Hannah Diamond is a fantastic singer, why did they feel the need to use the chipmunk voice effect? Though the effect is really irritating, it isn't too long the song really sounds indeed like Paradise. The drop is absolutely amazing, Hannah's verse is so sweet, and the beat was such an organic build-up and the outro is wonderful.
Quotable:
"Tonight, we're in paradise/Soaring through the sky/Seeing pink and white/Yeah, we can make it right"
Track rating: 9.5/10
3.
Trophy
The beat is reminds me of the beat of
Run the World (Girls), which I hate A LOT. But this song is actually really awesome. It is a banger (strange that this EP has more bangers than the album titled as Bangerz). This build-up of the pre-hook is so up lifting, and the beat that runs throw the verses is so hard-hitting.
Quotable: "Your B keep it bink and we bossy/Hey, it's like I told you, song number one"
Track rating: 10/10
4.
Secret (Shh)
Finally we have the album's closer. And it isn't as good as the others (maybe because it's co-produced by somebody else). This is more subdue and more sensual, not as hard hitting as the others or as fun as the others, but indeed still great.
Quotable: "No one gets to know 'bout, shh"
Track rating: 8.5/10
Overall, on Friday I hated this EP, and in two days I came to the conclusion that I think it is actually awesome. Yeah, you may hate the album but you still need to agree that this is very much to strange for you. It is an experimental genre. I'm sure people hated thrash-metal in the '70s as well.
Stream it, download it or buy it?: Stream it, if you enjoy what you hear go buy it because this kind of genre needs support.
Best songs: Vroom Vroom, Trophy, Paradise
Worst song: Secret (Shh)
Album rating: 9/10
