So I’m finally bringing back a feature of the old (old!) d6 with the return of the MeroMusic Minute; some quick thoughts about what’s new in music
I’ve decided to focus the first MMM installment on Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple, the successor to 2006′s St. Elsewhere. The album’s first single, Run, is a fun and catchy tune with an even catchier video (with a fun Justin Timberlake cameo and the possibility of inducing an epeletic seizure). Sadly, it’s the only really great song on the album. Whereas St. Elsewhere shined with a number of memorable cuts, The Odd Couple flounders in places as Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo try some new musical terrain. The album feels a bit more down-tempo, and I think that might be where it flounders.
I won’t call it a sophomore slump, because the album was enjoyable overall, but it’s definately not St. Elsewhere 2.0.
