HelloGoodbye - Here (In Your Arms) - Single Review
Hi! Thanks for visiting Unreality Music! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed for regular updates.
HelloGoodbye. Hands up if you’re a serious artist….
I beg to differ. Any band who decides to use a vocoder these days is stupid. I hope I’m not understating that fact.
Anybody who uses a vocoder in the 21st Century automatically sounds like Believe-era Cher. Yeah, it was a funky gimmick once. It hasn’t been funky since 1998 though.
Did I mention that Here (In Your Arms) uses a vocoder?
OK, let’s forget about outdated vocal effects for a minute. If you can overlook that, there’s a decent pop song underneath, apparently aimed at the teen geek market. The problem with HelloGoodbye is that they seem to consist solely of gimmicks. Unfortunately, looking at their website and their video, they seem to be positioning themselves as a comedy band.
That’s not a bad thing, by the way. The biography on their website raises a smile:
With all the energy and intensity of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch - minus all that pesky Scientology stuff about people living in volcanoes - Hellogoodbye have spent the last two years perfecting their unbridled live show and booty-shaking jams, which culminate in the release of their debut album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!.
Here (In Your Arms) is a cute single, but these guys will need more than a comedy video and a vocoder to pull off a follow-up!
Bookmark & Share »
October 19th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
You are obviously over generalizing, as well as uneducated. Hellogoodbye’s use of a vocoder is marketable because of the fact that hardly anyone uses one nowdays. Didn’t you hear Kanye West’s Stronger? It was a number 1 hit-and it used a vocoder. Just because you are scared of technology. Gosh.
August 17th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Umm, actually, your somewhat scorching review is based solely on a very biased, single-minded opinon, as opposed to a relativley accepting, and non-generalizing review. The use of a ‘vocoder’ (It’s not even a Vocoder, it’s pitch correction software, meaning you actually have to be able to sing…)is not only innovative, creative, and highly enjoyable, it’s absolutley appropriate in the electro-pop infused music that Hellogoodbye is characterized by.
Perhaps we should take a look at music TODAY, (a.k.a., not making OUTDATED references to Cher) and take note of how many brilliant artists have released music that use the sound of PITCH CORRECTION SOFT/HARDWARE that have climbed to the top of the charts, and have become relentlessly successful because of said software. Here, I’ll even help you out…
… T-Pain #1 (Bartender), Kanye West #1 (Stronger, Eiffel 65 #1 (Blue Da Ba Dee)…
…And MOST impotantly, Hellogoodbye, #1 (Here) In Your Arms
I LOVE HELLOGOODBYE!
haha
=DD