tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post5010005182577333797..comments2024-03-16T18:38:04.996-04:00Comments on Critics At Large : Crossover Standard: Renee Fleming's Dark HopeCritics at Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18073851963852030361noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-44405561756539600812010-07-06T17:14:07.416-04:002010-07-06T17:14:07.416-04:00In 3 short minutes, "Dark Hole" explaine...In 3 short minutes, "Dark Hole" explained:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCfiU1uTY7o<br /><br />Anyone with an IQ exceeding .01 should avoid purchasing this pablum at any <br />cost. It is a watered-down, quarter-baked, vapid, insincere tryout at audience-<br />building and record-selling via pop/rock, condescending to an increasingly <br />undiscerning public and Endlessly offensive to the remainder. But make no <br />mistake: Fleming, 51-year old suburban mom and looking beyond silly in her <br />hair extensions and goth handgloves, is no indie rocker. Small peanuts the album <br />sounds so fake, for it is all-fake. She and her publicity people may succeed in <br />fooling a few of her followers but no one else. In fact, there's Bright Hope this <br />might be the case. To wit, the Fleming machinery was ecstatic two or three weeks <br />back regarding this product's entry (at #151) in the Billboard Top 200. A week <br />after their press emissions and it had already gone up in smoke in said chart. <br />Fleming-flappers are desperately agitating everywhere to fish it out of the Dark <br />Hole it's in and so the falsehood keeps circulating, chewed and swallowed by <br />unquestioning journalists-turned-public-relationists. All in all, the whole scene, the whole thing reeks of fakery.Don Quixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09191169708490080531noreply@blogger.com