Having become accustomed to hearing Rihanna's catchy tunes n the radio I finally broke down and purchased her latest release, Good Girl Gone Bad.  I was expecting one of two things.  The album was either going to be infested with non-stop dance music, or it would end up being another poor Pop/R&B release with two or three good upbeat songs with the remainder of the disc being slow, sappy, and typical.

The album begins with the familiar beginning of Umbrella that makes me want to nod my head in agreement to the beat...the beat of repetition.  Rihanna can't help that her song has been overplayed by radio stations and fans alike.  It's a catchy and agreeable song.  I suppose it's a love/hate relationship.  Push Up On Me starts off like an 80's dance song and ends like an unnerving teeny-bop pop song, "Let's play a game/I won't be a tease...I wish you would push up on me/I wish you would push up on me/I wish you would light me up and say you want me/Push up me."

  When Don't Start the Music comes around I can instnatly picture myself at a club with strobe lights affecting my perception of reality.  No booty dancing here, just body twisting movement that you can't even imagine until you let your body move to the music.  So distracted my body would be that I could forgive the Michael Jackson sounding yelps and incoherent rambling.

The following track Breakin' Dishes made me do a double take to ensure that I was not listening to the latest from Nelly Furtado.  It's a bit sassy and nasally.  The sassiness remains, but thank goodness the nasal sounds disappear.  The beat is really catchy--a song that I would blast in my car driving down CA-I 99 with my windows rolled down.  A song that lets men everywhere know that they better not piss me off.

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    Alright yall, i haven't forgotten about this site and i definitely haven't stopped blogging. I'm just waiting for the new Turbonegro album, "Retox" to be released here in America on August 14th. I have already listened to the album multiple times from their myspace when they had the album up for preview for a week, but I wont be writing a review until i get to REALLY study it. So stay tuned around mid-August for a full review of the entire album. Until then, i may start doing little quips about the band, its history, its other albums, and how it has come to be one of the most revolutionary bands of our time.

 More to come soon!

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I was blessed by this album.

Not blessed due to its creativeness, it’s unique sense of caring or its display of incredible talent. Nope. I was blessed because previous to hear it, I had NEVER heard Mr. J. Medeiros before and now I was going to be able to listen to his album with fresh, unbiased ears. I was going to be able to review this record without thinking about how he may have veered off from previous efforts or how his production team isn’t what it has been in the past. None of that is going to come into play. Because to Mr. Medeiros, I was blessed to come in with virgin ears.

  When I was living down in Los Angeles, I never got to hear Medeiros’ group, “The Procussions” and outside of that, I haven’t found any reason why my ears would have stumbled across him or his talent. Once this record drops, I’m pretty sure all of that is going to change...

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