Flo Rida - Wild Ones (03/09/2012)
If you hadn’t heard Flo Rida’s lead track ‘Good Feeling’ on the airwaves then clearly you’ve been living under a boulder of enormous proportions. Or in a cave somewhere, buried under that enormous boulder whilst covered in tonnes of concrete.
It was an inescapable radio track for the summer period and comes out of the David Guetta school of rap mixed with urban hip hop and electronic synth based dance pop. It’s basically a giant melting pot of all the catchy bits you can think of; thrown against the wall in the hopes of finding the best bits that will stick.
If you’d somehow managed to escape ‘Good Feeling’ then you probably didn’t avoid the buckshot of the follow up single and title track ‘Wild Ones’. Mercifully this song features some exceptional singing (yes, singing) by the eccentric Sia as a guest vocalist. She uses her vocals to add some harmonics that are well layered on top of the already standard but solid drum ‘n’ bass beats.
In contrast to Sia’s outstanding singing there’s the Latina Goddess herself Jennifer Lopez on ‘Sweet Spot’. Her vocals are practically butchered through auto-tune and it’s only on certain inflections that you can actually recognise her voice. This just comes across as a waste of a high profile artist on a song that just sounds like a rehashed version of something by 50 Cent or Ludacris.
For a complete change of pace ‘Thinking Of You’ slows things down a notch or two, and would be the closest thing to a “ballad” on this record of pumping club ready tracks. With our man Flo lamenting over a lost lover “...Do you think of me? Do you think of me? Maybe it was best that we let it go, that we let it go.”. It’s about as sentimental as you’re going to get on this record where clearly the tracks are trying to focus on a more upbeat approach.
This record relies heavily on some well placed (and well snatched) sampling, including Etta James’ “Something’s Got A Hold On Me” for ‘Good Feeling’, some swinging blues guitar off “Let The Good Times Roll” by Freddie King on ‘Let It Roll’ and even some Bryan Adams’ “Run To You” on ‘Run’. Also the flashy and very sharp production allows Flo Rida to stand up there with the best of his peers, even if lyrically his songs are extremely naff and forgettable.
The most important thing is that you can dance to these tracks and that’s clearly the target market for this record.
Carina Nilma
It was an inescapable radio track for the summer period and comes out of the David Guetta school of rap mixed with urban hip hop and electronic synth based dance pop. It’s basically a giant melting pot of all the catchy bits you can think of; thrown against the wall in the hopes of finding the best bits that will stick.
If you’d somehow managed to escape ‘Good Feeling’ then you probably didn’t avoid the buckshot of the follow up single and title track ‘Wild Ones’. Mercifully this song features some exceptional singing (yes, singing) by the eccentric Sia as a guest vocalist. She uses her vocals to add some harmonics that are well layered on top of the already standard but solid drum ‘n’ bass beats.
In contrast to Sia’s outstanding singing there’s the Latina Goddess herself Jennifer Lopez on ‘Sweet Spot’. Her vocals are practically butchered through auto-tune and it’s only on certain inflections that you can actually recognise her voice. This just comes across as a waste of a high profile artist on a song that just sounds like a rehashed version of something by 50 Cent or Ludacris.
For a complete change of pace ‘Thinking Of You’ slows things down a notch or two, and would be the closest thing to a “ballad” on this record of pumping club ready tracks. With our man Flo lamenting over a lost lover “...Do you think of me? Do you think of me? Maybe it was best that we let it go, that we let it go.”. It’s about as sentimental as you’re going to get on this record where clearly the tracks are trying to focus on a more upbeat approach.
This record relies heavily on some well placed (and well snatched) sampling, including Etta James’ “Something’s Got A Hold On Me” for ‘Good Feeling’, some swinging blues guitar off “Let The Good Times Roll” by Freddie King on ‘Let It Roll’ and even some Bryan Adams’ “Run To You” on ‘Run’. Also the flashy and very sharp production allows Flo Rida to stand up there with the best of his peers, even if lyrically his songs are extremely naff and forgettable.
The most important thing is that you can dance to these tracks and that’s clearly the target market for this record.
Carina Nilma