Did Chris Daughtry Record His New Album With A Stuffy Nose
With his first self titled album “Daughtry,” American Idol non-winner Chris Daughtry had the last laugh by creating an endlessly listenable record that afflict up selling millions of copies. Buy that Taylor Hicks (he won Chris’ year on Idol)—you pasty faced and talentless yokel.
So what happened this time Chris? Why does your usual vocal vibrato seem to be accentuated by some serious nasal clogging? Did your prescription for your allergy medicine expire and you were too busy to see the doctor? Why do you sound like you are singing through a stuffy nose? What happened?
Perhaps some answers can be found in Chris Daughtry’s recent acoustic mask of Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face.” While this track, unfortunately, cannot be found on the track list for Daughtry’s new album “Leave This Town,” it has become quite the internet sensation on YouTube. Does Mr. Daughtry know what this Lady GaGa song is about? Or does he, too, understand the iniquity of suffering through a certain intimate experience with his partner where unmentionable body parts continually slap against his “poker face? ” I kind of doubt it. But it is humorous to think about.
As for Daughtry’s new record it is much more a hit and miss affair than his first exertion. On some tracks he tries his very best to imitate his heavy metal heroes while other songs are seeming rip-offs of his own earlier hits. While experimentation is all well and good, Daughtry the band is at its cohesive best when it uses a mid-tempo beat from the rhythm section to accentuate whatever painful feeling Mr. Sensitive (also known as Chris Daughtry) is trying to convey. Regretfully for buyers of “Leave This Town,” a lot of the sentiments just don’t seem to ring very true. I mean, how many times can some girl demolish Chris Daughtry’s heart? He’s hot.
“Leave This Town” opens with a song called “You Don’t Belong” that boasts guitar riffs and drum beats seemingly stolen from the latest Disturbed album. This kind of musical accompaniment to Chris Daughtry’s stutter just “doesn’t belong.” It is possibly the weakest song on the entire album and shouldn’t be the lead in track.
The rest of the album covers the usual gamut of Daughtry topics—much like in country music the lyrics usually refer to a woman who has done him wrong or refers to a world that is breaking him down. His usual angst levels are conveyed in songs like “Ghost of Me,” “With your imagination and emotions running wild/ fueling my frustrations like a fire burning, the clock keeps turning/I know it’s getting underneath your skin/I’ve tried to tell you know/ Don’t look over your shoulder/ Because you are fair looking at the ghost of me.”
As the album progresses you begin to wonder who exactly pissed this guy off so powerful? The repetitive nature of the themes inaugurate to grate somewhat, only lessened by the occasional appearance of absolutely irresistible pop-style hooks. These hooks are truly Daughtry’s saving grace. It is what keeps this from being an utterly mediocre album. It keeps it from being a blatant rip-off of American Idol winner David Cook’s record—itself a total rip-off of Daughtry’s first album. Yes, dears, “Leave This Town” embodies borderline musical cannibalism.
If you are looking to set a couple bucks there are a few tracks you really don’t need to download including “On the Inside” and “Every Time You Turn Around” which sounds like 6 other Daughtry songs but with utterly juvenile lyrical rhyming. But the worst track by far is the musically adventurous (if you call aping instrumentation from a Broadway musical “adventurous”) and lyrically inept “Supernatural,” “It’s more than I can take and I’m losing bear of everything/ When it’s more than physical it’s hard to see beyond the glow.” What?
Redemption is not far off as the next track called “Tennessee Line” is perhaps the most beautifully actualized Daughtry song ever recorded. Bringing to mind every midnight road trot you have ever taken, “Tennessee Line” is at times heartbreaking yet filled with joyful remembrances. It is lyrically rich and musically soothing in a way that ensures its set as a moral classic. It may not hit the pop charts like a hammer but I guarantee that this song will become a favorite by embodying a time and place to the individuals who hear it. “Haunting me now reminders of how I used to be/ And on down the road my troubles are sure to follow/ Looking out the window, the hell if I know where I will go/ So I’ll just keep on driving.”
Despite the fact that “Leave This Town” suffers from a rather haphazard quality it is detached a obedient follow up to Daughtry’s first recount. It doesn’t quite bog-down with the “second record” curse and truly hits some fresh, unreached highs for the band. “Leave This Town” just doesn’t qualify as a great represent all the draw from beginning to end. So be positive to listen to all the tracks, most especially “Tennessee Line,” “Life After You” and “Ghost of Me.” That way you can impartial download the tracks you like and won’t be saddled with the few unfortunate new Daughtry songs that never rise above a slightly unbelievable tone of sullen mediocrity.
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