Razor's Edge
Selena Gomez - Stars Dance
I’m going to have to give this week’s edge to Selena “Babyface” Gomez. She helped me out in a time of need. I was at the halfway mark in my cardio session and just finished up listening to Jay Sean’s latest release when her album started with a song called Birthday which just gave me a jolt of energy to press on and continue my 60 min. workout routine.
I want to take this time to give the producers all the credit in the world for this great album. I didn’t expect to like a Selena Gomez album as much as I did and it had enough infectious pop to push me through my workout which was a plus. The Cataracs, Rock Mafia, Dreamlab, Stargate, The Monsters and Strangerz along with a few others but her production is what really sold me on this album. This is her debut album solo while it’s her 4th record overall. The other albums she had were with her band The Scene. I don’t know if this album has less personality than her other records. I will have to check it out for myself but I can’t stop gushing over how much I loved the production and the influences that were being used. The only gripe I had was when she’s doing reggae-ish type songs. The voice that she was using for them sounded pretty awful. She sounded like someone pretending to be West Indian and that’s the worst sound in the world to my ears because my family is West Indian and I know what it should sound like properly. Actually that’s not even my only gripe, a major problem I have that I know Selena and other former Disney singers are doing lately is cultural appropriation and it’s hard to stand by and watch them let this happen like nothing is going on. It’s kind of weird that Selena does it because she was in f
ucking Spring Breakers! Spring Breakers wasn’t only about showcasing the hedonistic culture of young people these days but there was also a perception of the characters trying to adapt this black ghetto mentality or what they thought this mentality was and how they should act. I guess she didn’t watch her own movie that she starred in or she just didn’t take away the lesson she was supposed to get from it. The more I talk about issues I have with Selena more are popping up but I swear this is the last one in my rant. She looks like a 12 year old, they really need to stop trying to make her look sexy. I don’t care how old she really is. She has a baby face and gyrating in music videos is going to make me over look that face of hers so just they just need to stop and give it a rest with giving her a sexual phase.