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I have sounded off elsewhere (like
in every review I've written in the past six months) about how
every new artist seems to be sounding like one of six
predecessors: Alice In Chains, Faith No More, Nine-Inch Nails,
Britney Spears, N'Sync, or Genuwine. It accordingly would be
easy to dismiss 3rd Faze as coming from the Britney Spears/Spice
Girls line: three hotties of (probably) barely legal age
pretending to be best buddies who probably never met until the
day of the recording session, with alluring looks, decent
voices, and who will have fallen off by this time next year. I
mean, they even come from Orlando, the capital of manufactured,
assembly line entertainment. So why even bother?
Well...if we're gonna be fair,
here, and accept this as valid pop music, there are a couple of
reasons for picking up on 3rd Faze as opposed to some of the
other ear and eye candy out there. For one thing, the tracks on
their self-titled debut as are good as anything you've recently
heard in the genre.
3rd Faze is full of poppy little
beats with plenty of hooks. Their lyrics are full of teen
concerns, and most involve erring on the side of caution; you
don't listen to a 3rd Faze CD and imagine them slipping through
the side door of some seedy Planned Parenthood office on the
sly.
No, these ladies are, at best,
passive aggressive. On their video "Sly" they're not
interested in a guy they met as a result of being in the parole
office at the same time. They're interested in a dud who's just
the other side of nerdy. And rather than throwing him against
the wall, mashing their charms against him and sticking their
tongues halfway down his throat, they...slip a CD-Rom of
themselves singing, and dancing, and yeah, doing a little
bouncing, into his backpack. I mean, these are the types of
hotties your son could bring home to dad. Please. Yeah, they
show some navel, but nothing worse than you'd find at your
average Catholic high school. I mean, one of the girls, Sara
Marie, even wear a crucifix, and it's not as an image of
mockery, like Madonna. She really means it. So when they sing
"Go Slow" they mean it the way Janet Jackson meant it,
as opposed to the Pointer Sisters. There are no surprises here,
other than these ladies appear to be wholesome, which is a
welcome relief. I took my preteen daughter to a Spice Girls
concert a couple of years ago and was treated to a femdom show
that I hadn't seen the likes of since...well, the night before,
after everyone went to bed.
But I mean really. Stiletto
heels, guys kneeling before them, choreographed kicks to the
groin, slaps...and it got even worse after Scarey and Company
came out! That wouldn't happen at a 3rd Faze concert, and it
doesn't happen on their CD. Sometimes the best surprise really
is no surprise.
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3rd Faze |
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Edel |
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Joe Hartlaub |
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