Chinese Democracy: So?
Posted by Lynnster on November 21, 2008
So, Chinese Democracy – good point. And good point, too.
When I was syncing up my MP3 player with Napster while getting ready to split town for a day last weekend, I noticed Chinese Democracy was the #1 pick, or #1 review, or some such like that.
And my immediate thought was, “Someone still cares?”
The album may be “all right”. I’ve already heard it’s okay, mediocre, nothing to write home about.
I’m also not sure that releasing it at a time when artists are now getting their work in stores within a month or two of recording – and even within a WEEK of recording – well, it just might have seemed a little less of a not-so-good idea two years ago, or the year before that, I’m just saying.
Somehow I think it might have been more interesting to just continue carrying on the ruse and perpetuating the myth that yeah, it would get released someday.
Because the fact that it’s out there now just doesn’t seem brilliant or genius or anything. Just kind of sad. Overhyped.
And entirely too late in the way that showing up to your senior prom twenty years after the fact, only to find that the Elks Lodge where it was held has been turned into a Wendy’s or McDonald’s, would.
bridgett said
Overhyped, sad, and better as a “never finished project” — In those ways (and a lot of others), Axl Rose is our generation’s Brian Wilson.
Lynnster said
Oh yes, EXCELLENT take there, excellent. The Brian Wilson thing… you’re absolutely right.
I hate to say it, but it probably would have been better (and sold more) as a posthumous release. Bigger interest level if it had been still unreleased at that point, it’d have been a Tragedy with a capital T.
Sad either way, though, really.