03 March 2006
ART: 50 Cent, Queen Mash But Do Not Mate
Dateline: In Da Club
You think to yourself, I love me some 50 Cent, and I do not mind me a bit of Queen now and again, so when you learn that some wag has mashed the two together, you might start thinking music magic has been made.
Alas, this mash is mere mush. The disc takes 50's raps from his "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" album and lays them over classic Queen songs. One wants to like it. After all 50 discharges automatic firing raps and Queen sang some of the best pop songs ever, but it is never more than a muddle. One always feels like trying to listen to two songs at once.
One gets pulled by 50 rapping, "There's no bidness like ho bidness." But then Queen keeps clamoring for attention with some song one made out to in junior high school.
As appealing as the concept of mashups are, it is not a concept that arrives frequently at mellifluous. And let's face it, when 50 sings, "What makes you think I won't run up on you with my nine," you want a driving beat underneath. You do not need the melodramatic bombast of a Queen synthesizer solo.
You should probably hold out for the Carpenters/Dead Kennedys mashup. If any paring can lift the mash out of the muck, these two can.
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You think to yourself, I love me some 50 Cent, and I do not mind me a bit of Queen now and again, so when you learn that some wag has mashed the two together, you might start thinking music magic has been made.
Alas, this mash is mere mush. The disc takes 50's raps from his "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" album and lays them over classic Queen songs. One wants to like it. After all 50 discharges automatic firing raps and Queen sang some of the best pop songs ever, but it is never more than a muddle. One always feels like trying to listen to two songs at once.
One gets pulled by 50 rapping, "There's no bidness like ho bidness." But then Queen keeps clamoring for attention with some song one made out to in junior high school.
As appealing as the concept of mashups are, it is not a concept that arrives frequently at mellifluous. And let's face it, when 50 sings, "What makes you think I won't run up on you with my nine," you want a driving beat underneath. You do not need the melodramatic bombast of a Queen synthesizer solo.
You should probably hold out for the Carpenters/Dead Kennedys mashup. If any paring can lift the mash out of the muck, these two can.
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