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"The Hunger Games Mocking Jay Part 1" ALBUM REVIEW

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Channel: Rock N' Roll True Stories · 2014 · Music

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My review of the soundtrack album CD for the Hunger Games Mocking Jay Part 1

Overall: 3/5

Hey everybody so I am doing a review today of the new hunger games mocking jay part 1 soundtrack. the soundtrack is coming out this tuesday it coincides with the release of the movie next friday. And in this album we see a lot of the returning musicians like Lorde Who i guess was on the last soundtrack . She did that awful cover of that Tears for Fears song Everybody Wants to Rule the World and I think that there is quite a bit of consensus that a lot of people did not like that cover version, but lets talk about this album is that and this album really really reeks of 80's production and a lot of tribal kind of music especially in the percussion department in these songs. So the album features a number of different artists, some of who you guys are probably already familiar with. There's Lorde, Chvurches,  Arianne Grande is on this album, Tove Lo and many more. In fact Lorde I think was specifically hired on this album to write a bunch of the songs as well as choose a bunch of other musicians to sing a bunch of the other songs as well as do some work with them as well. So like I said this isn't Lorde first involvement

Like the movie, the soundtrack takes a much darker and more sinister tone, but some of the songs just seem weirdly out of place and of course i am talking about the Arianne Grande song  as well as the XOV song animal, which just reeks of echo, auto tune and the awfulness that's so present in so much pop music today and this also goes for another song called This Is Not a Game which features Miguel as well Lorde on background vocals. It's such an annoying song and so repetitive.  And the song just seems to go in so many different directions that you don't really get a sense of what the song is trying to accomplish. But lets talk about the good things on the album. So there are some really good songs on the album. My favourite song is Dead Air. It has a really cool pop/alternative rock kind of sound and it also screams 80's. It's chalk full of you know drum machines and synths. Another really great song is the first song off the album, which is Meltdown which features Lorde and it's actually a pretty good song. It does sound. I've never been a big fan of Lorde. I've found for someone whose a 17 year old she sure seems to have a lot of wisdom and snootiness for someone who hasn't lived an adult life. I mean she acts like she's the second coming of Christ or the next Kurt Cobain which she's not. Anyways lets talk about the positive still, but I have to give her credit on this song. It is a pretty good songs. She has another song off this album called Yellow Flicker, which there's two version's of. The original version I don't really care much for. It sounds like every other song Lorde has sang., but then there is a Kanye West remix version which is really good. It tends to slow things downThere's a lot less percussion, there's a lot less going on in the song  And it's more about Lorde's vocals than the instrumentation going on in the background so that's probably one of my favourite songs too. The album also does do some more experimental EDM stuff as well with songs like Original Beast, which seems to miss the mark a bit for me as it's too experimental for my taste. But you know what at the end of the day the album succeeds in what it does, which is appeal to the demographic of the movie, which is probably teenagers as well as you know maybe young adults. And I think for them I think they are going to enjoy the album, but for s me someone whose a bit older and modestly or casually enjoys the movies this is a mediocre album. I probably give it a 3/5.  . Thanks for watching guys and don't forget to hit the subscribe button. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks

Tracklist
1."Meltdown"   
2. "Dead Air"   
3. "Scream My Name"   
4. "Kingdom"   
5. "All My Love"   
6. "Lost Souls"  
7. "Yellow Flicker Beat"   
8. "The Leap"   
9. "Plan the Escape"   
10. "Original Beast"  
11. "Flicker (Kanye West Rework)"  
12. "Animal"   
13. "This Is Not a Game"   
14. "Ladder Song"

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