Rebecca Black :"Salvation"

14  years ago, she released a song called 'Friday" that I avoided until now, it's like something Christian youth groups might listen to, and now she is old enough to twerk for us all.  There are worse ways to farm a pop start than a busty internet personality who presents an oversexed personality in her music videos, for such is what happens in the title track. It is a song that works better when you are watching it than listening to, though with each listen, it did grow on me a bit, though the chorus sounds like something from an anime soundtrack in the way the vocals are layered and auto-tuned. 

As a song, "Trust" might be the album's best song as it's pretty air-tight and not just limited to the synths grinding in time with her hips. Though I have read some stupid pieces trying to create content passed off as music journalism that suggest she is doing some kind of neo-goth, which is not true. It reminds me a little more of Gwent Sefani's solo work but with more refined synths. Not glitched out enough to be hyper-pop, but not what I imagine they would play on the radio, and once again, when accompanied by her ass shaking in a video, it works better, so perhaps it must be seen to be believed. Even if the video is edited to just look like b-roll, the visuals improve things, since nothing new is sonically being brough to the table, but it is executed in a ways that works. 

'American Doll' is without the video to supplement it, but has lyrics that are more interesting than "Friday' though on this one, you can hear how this is the same girl just grown up to be yearning for a good slut shaming. The beat pulls it together. This vibe continues on for "Tears in My Pocket". To her credit, she does not have a busload of producers and writers gliding her across the assembly line, elevating her over the likes of Sabrina Carpenter, though perhaps equal in terms of vocal ability or lack of, yet she works with what she has. 'Do You Even Think About Me' is the first song that feels like the writing falls a bit short.  Yet even then, it works better than the new Katy Perry. The last song' Twist the Knife" finds the tank empty in the creativity department as it defaults to the same disco sounds Lady Gaga jsut tried recycling. I will give this a 9 , so it's better than the rest of the pop albums that did not make our top 10 list. 

6.5

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