If I haven’t been posting too much about music lately, that’s because I haven’t been listening to much.  Listening to music has rarely been a background activity for me; I prefer to play new stuff when I can actually listen to it.

But to make my gf happy, I put on the new Adam Lambert album, For Your Entertainment, in the car yesterday.

And to be honest, by half-way through the third song, I’d had enough.  “I’m not enjoying this, are you?” I asked.  She said no and I quickly switched to something else.  He’s chosen songs that allow him to use the full range of his voice in a Freddie Mercury-like way.  All accompanied by lots of heavy synths that I guess are meant to sound modern but sounded annoyingly 80s-retro to me.  And three songs in, I was still waiting for a song with a hook that I might want to hear again.  Didn’t happen, not even on the probably remix-friendly single.

Then went onto Norah Jones’s latest, The Fall.

This sounded a whole lot better. Working with producer Jacquire King, who has worked with Tom Waits and Kings of Leon, plus musicians like Marc Ribot, it sounds like a serious attempt to update her sound without alienating her fan base too much. On first listen, it worked okay for me.
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