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The Cobalt
Party Revolution: Slave to the Groove
Polish up those wingtip shoes, brush the lint off your V-neck sweater and pull those argyle socks up tight, because the Cobalt Party Revolution is coming to rock your white bred party like nobody since the days of Kriss Kross, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. This Michigan-based group, consisting of Cash Till, MC Action, Kidd Ickarus and MC Fire, is about as hip-hop as their Canadian neighbors, the Barenaked Ladies, completely missing all the heart and feeling that made all the groups cited influences (De La Soul, Public Enemy) so amazing. In fact, the group plays it completely safe by ignoring all social subjects that brought hip-hop into existence in the first place, and instead merely blows a lot of hot air hyping their own egos, all the time saying close to nothing at all. For their part, however, the Revolutions instrumentals are tight and dance-ready. The 70s-style soul and funk guitars and 80s keyboard riffs provide bright and shiny backdrops to the beats. Of course, CPR isnt alone in their shortfalls; with their distorted vocals and lyrical interplay falling short of their Beastie Boys target, the group instead falls among such groups as Northern State and Ugly Duckling. And of course, even though they are the equivalent of musical cotton candy immediately sweet to the senses while it rots out your teeth the groups highly polished and familiar instrumentals are fun enough that less discriminating fans will be eager to bob their heads to the beats. On the track You Might Not Like Us, the chorus chant of You might not like us/Yeah, but we dont give a fuck/ Your girlfriend loves us/ Cmon girl, let me show you whats up, shows that CPR themselves seem to know who their audience is, and they are presumably okay with it. And while CPR may think they get the last laugh (and a music critics girlfriend), Ill be much more content at home alone with my old Biggie and BDP records to console me.
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