![]() ![]() He could barely sing, he wasn’t that great a dancer, and he was wholly incapable of projecting any kind of charisma, starpower or just any distinguishing characteristic that could make him stand out from the billion other Usher wannabes who flooded the music scene in ’09 to replace the recently-outed Chris Brown. I hated him from the very first moment I heard him, for the simple reason that he had absolutely no talent as an artist. And I wouldn’t usually care about those things if the song does a good job portraying those emotions, but even just in matters of form, ‘Watcha Say’ fails miserably, from its stilted, melodramatic production to its shameless sampling of Imogen Heap, which in today’s terms, would be like if someone sampled ‘Pineapple Pen‘ and made a song out of it.Īnd in spite of all of Derulo’s attempts to paint himself as this slick, RnB loverman, it’s precisely that gaudiness and lack of tact permeating his breakthrough hit that continued to define Derulo as his career rose. But what’s even worse the meatheaded, idiotic way Derulo goes about it–for one, he doesn’t even apologize once in the song all it is just a bunch of excuses and worthless douchebag promises. ![]() For one, it’s a song that expects me to sympathize with a guy who cheated on his girlfriend, a topic which will naturally have an uphill climb to make me like it (see also: ‘Lips of an Angel’). ‘Watcha Say’ is far and away one of the worst songs of the late 2000s. ![]()
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