Chris Cornell’s New Record, ‘Scream’
I wasn’t going to blog cause it’s around 1 am and I don’t wanna fall asleep in class tommorrow, but I just bought Chris Cornell’s newest record on Amazon for 3 bones. I knew it was going to be a trainwreck. CC, my favorite singer of all time, the singer of Soundgarden, singer of Audioslave, the guy who sang Black Hole Sun, the guy who sang Spoonman, I could go on forever, just did an album with….Timbaland. Taking a complete 180 from the artist i know and respect, he changes up both his lyrical style and his music style to singing nonsense about relationships over very Timbaland sounding beats. The first f*cking song is set to a Shakira type latin, tango beat where Cornell hollers ‘no, that bitch ain’t a part of me’ for the entire chorus. A far cry from the brilliant lyrics of Black Hole Sun and other Soundgarden and Audioslave material, I can appreciate trying something completely new to stay relevent as an artist, but this reeks of dollar signs. And yet, I don’t think it will pay off in them.
Soapbox girl said:
Mar 16, 09 at 7:26 pmi agree with you. i don’t know as much about chris cornell as you seem to, but the above mentioned songs are amazing, and i just watched his new video and it is kind of ridiculous. I watched his other videos next to his new video, and i almost felt like laughing. it’s like he’s a teenager trying to be something he’s definitely not. yea, it’s great to try other things, but gees, don’t take steps backwards dude….