The track was produced by Kane Beatz, must say this is not what i expected but at least it lead towards the direction to Lupe Album. Doing just enough to escape his 16 bars before the next bombshell chorus blows, he fills his verses with guh-inducing wordplay, one-note concepts (the central metaphor of "Out of My Head" was deep enough to support a Drew Barrymore/Hugh Grant movie), or stock attempts at anguish ("Beautiful Lasers (2 Ways)"), uplift ("Coming Up"), and non-conformity ("State Run Radio"). by Kane Beatz) WE have the official first single for Lupe Fiasco highly anticipated album Lasers today, drops March 8, 2011. Whether it's self-sabotage or a total lack of inspiration, the major difference here is that Lupe isn't working hard or playing hard. īut if this was simply "man, shame about some of the beats and hooks," someone might assume they stumbled onto a review of Food & Liquor or The Cool. Look, "Float On" is a great song, not a sacred text but interpolated into a half-Branson, half-Disney brass fanfare somehow cheapens it worse than any appearance on Kidz Bop or "American Idol". This is one that "interpolates" Modest Mouse and trades Isaac Brock's fuck-all optimism for Lasers' most blatant attempt to siphon juice from Recovery's redemption-story treacle. This is a coincidence of cosmic proportions.Īnd then there's single "The Show Goes On", so gallingly lazy, I'm at least willing to view it as some sort of next-level parody of A&Rs asleep in the hit factory- it would certainly be a more clever indictment than "Dumb It Down".
There's a guy on several of these songs singing putrid hooks through what sounds like vocal filters retrieved from Dan Deacon's recycle bin- he's named MDMA.
Surveying the current pop-rap landscape and retaining nothing worthwhile, it's at once chaotic, bored, and yet unyieldingly abrasive- overblown, forced choruses, rawk guitar tracks that had to be laid down by a guy with a ponytail, mixing as subtle as a nu-metal record. Lasers simply sounds bad, playing against every single one of Lupe Fiasco's strengths and creating new weaknesses.