Plastique
The start of A Paper Cut From a Paper Kiss sounds like it could be a decent bond tune, the vocals are there for sure and the music seems acceptable too, it's only when you get deep down to the centre of the song that it's revealed that it's awful. It has the same melody all the way through that could be imitated by banging a wooden spoon against a saucepan and no real differential piece of music until the end when it goes a little bit heavier...but not enough to salvage this sinking ship.
It seems like I'm giving this a bad review based on the music, that is in fact not true because the lyrics are just as shoddy, predictable and at times don't really make sense "I'm 29 and I'm full of shit" it doesn't even rhyme with anything that comes before or after it just seems to be thrown in for the hell of it. I'm not oblivious to the fact that a song needs rhyme to be a 'song' it's just that this particular song just seems to be random phrases thrown about for the hell of it.
The real tragedy is that the front woman has escaped the inevitable prison of most female fronted bands, she doesn't sound like Hayley Williams, her vocals are excellent, really excellent, at times it does sound like she is just talking rather than singing but when she puts her effort in she is truly a brilliant artist. It's just a shame that she is in this band.
I reached the end of this song and wasn't wowed or impressed, merely bored and a little bit exhausted from having to listen to the repetitiveness of it. Oh but it's not over yet...yay remixes...snore.
The not so remixed remixes are by Daddy Remix and Man Kid the first seems to have a more complex drum beat than the original but it still retains the same base of lyrics and doesn't really mix things up apart from maybe making it a bit faster and making it sound like some sort of song you'd hear in an action movie. Basically if this came on in a dance club I wouldn't be overly excited.
Man Kid's has an intro that you'd hear in on an old television like Flash Gordon or the first Terminator film where the music was just cheesy as hell (as opposed to the sequal which was amazing in every way). The vocals in this version have somehow improved, it doesn't sound like she's talking the lyrics anymore but actually singing, why couldn't this be done on the original? When I get past this I realise that the tune in the background that sounds like cheesy movie music is the only thing that makes this version. Not impressive.
In short Plastique are unique, there is no other band that sound like them but that's probably a good thing, if they sound as bad as this one single. I await their album and I will listen just to see if I was right about them in this review. If I'm not I will eat my words.