Even as I'm writing this, I know it marks me as an old woman
Dear "The Features",
I heard your song "Blow It Out" on the radio this morning. It is a fun song and I love the prominent use of the poppy organ. Your band seems mighty fine. And you've got a killer hook-- "If you're happy and you know it, turn the volume up and blow it out."
But as much as I'd love to follow your directions, I cannot, for your lead singer's voice makes my ears bleed, even at low volumes.
I know that my saying that will instantly probably render you vastly successful and give proof to the fact that I'm too old to enjoy popular music. But in case that doesn't happen, I recommend you immediately license that line to some talented rapper and let him put it in a song without a screechy-voiced dude singing.
Then you can get rich from the subsidiary rights deal. You did keep your subsidiary rights, right?
Love,
Aunt B.
posted by Aunt B at 9/12/2005 07:19:00 AM
4 Comments:
This is a historic post, as it marks the first time in Nashville blogging that a local blog has ever written anything critical of The Features.
Has there been any ground broken in the area of not having any idea who the features are? Because I can be a pioneer there, if need be..
I don't like that catchy hook line that encourages listeners to "turn it up and blow it out". We have plenty of people doing that already and I am forced to hear it and even feel it. To them, I say "TURN THAT DOWN!"
Please, no turning it up and blowing it out.
Matt (the singer) is actually a pretty quiet guy with a wife and a couple of kids here in Murfreesboro. He doesn't talk that much, so hearing him sing is always strange. I wasn't sure about it at first, but I have come to really like his voice.
I agree about the organ. They are all talented musicians, but Parrish's assortment of keyboards really make the songs for me.
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