I feel I need to start this by saying I didn’t hate Jeffree’s music.It’s not completely awful, for reasons I will get to later. He is just an incredibly unoriginal artist who only manages to stay relevant by making music that appeals only to a small niche of semi-retarded pubescent girls. I’ll admit, the boy has done his marketing. Because his music is perfect for scenester fan girls. Its just unintelligible to the general population.
And I think that this is the first area of my contention with Jeffree’s music. He aims to appease a female audience aged 12-17 and thats basically all he achieves. His music is aimed at people who are, how you say, not very intelligent. I’m pretty sure Dr Seuss was better at rhyming lines and half his words were made up, and also he really hated children. It seems like this is what Jeffree is doing. He understands his audience are barely out of grade school and really need a strong rhyme pattern to be able to understand a song. Anything else is simply too complex. Why the hell confuse matters by discussing his inner anguish and using metaphors when he can simply sing (and I use that word loosely) about cupcakes and sequins.
It almost goes without saying that Jeffree is a huge pink-haired gimmick, but having listened to his music, I can’t emphasize it enough. His lyrics consisted almost entirely of scene catchphrases such as “so fierce”. I mean come on, its really hard to take anyone serious when they analogise their heart to sequins and cupcake. My heart is not like sequins, thanks. Nor will it ever feel like that. Go back to fail, dont pass go, and dont collect $200.
This brings me to my next dislike, the fact his lyrics were so self referential. I’m generally not a fan of books/movies/poems which are self refential, they need to be very clever for me to appreciate them. Take my pot head maths tutor’s buddhist poetry for example. Top quality mindfuck material, where the poem acknowledges that it is a poem. But Jeffree Star’s references to himself are neither intelligent nor witty. “I’m Jeffree Star” and “I’m a fucking star” may constitute self awareness at the very literal level, but its a stretch to say they were clever or even well played.
I wish I could say Jeffree was trying to make decent music. I get that he plays his music off his whole asshole scenester schtick. But its not like he’s even half-way nuanced about playing off his own marketing points. He just acknowledges he is a scene kid and then (evidently) is so arrogant/deluded he doesnt even try to poke fun at this fact; he actually believes his own scene hype.
At least Pete Wentz in his self referential lyrics subtly mocks his own scene status. Jeffree is so self absorbed he seems to genuinely think that talking about himself is all he needs to do, and there doesnt need to be any kind of meaning or point to his songs BECAUSE HE IS JUST THAT FUCKING AMAZING. All he ends up doing is sounding like a huge unintentional parody of himself.
This brings me to the music . I ashamed myself by finding elements of the music to be half way decent. This was of course until i realized they are completely stolen from the 80′s. Also add to this the heavy level of filters on his voice, which obfuscate whether or not Jeffree actually has any singing talent at all.
I mean the music in one song, if you ignore the idiodic lyrics, sounds alright. Jeffree is almost bearable until you realise EVERY SONG SOUNDS THE SAME. They all use the same formula. Borrow a back beat from some 80′s or electronica song, add heavily filtered lyrics over the top and make a scene reference. Rinse, and repeat. His voice is exactly the same in every song to the point of being comical. There are some artists who can only sing in one key. Jeffree can only sing in one note.
The low point of his ‘career’ is probably the huge electronica fail that is Miss Boombox. Words can not describe how little talent it takes to produce something like it, but as a whole his entire ‘sound’ is an inept and unoriginal copy of what electronica has been doing for decades, with its only real selling point consistenting of its appeal to mindless scene kids who enjoy songs about rainbows, cupcakes and irrelevant violence references. Any redeeming qualities to his music are entirely down to stolen 80′s backbeats I already liked and an extremely skilled sound engineer.
Terrible? Yes. Untalented? Yes. Unoriginal? Yes. The worst? Not quite. I feel that Jeffree is too mediocre to even properly hate, and alas, he is only a speck on the ass of lousy music.
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The Hunt for the Worst Musical Act: Jeffree Star
Posted by Kristyn Glanville on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
I feel I need to start this by saying I didn’t hate Jeffree’s music.It’s not completely awful, for reasons I will get to later. He is just an incredibly unoriginal artist who only manages to stay relevant by making music that appeals only to a small niche of semi-retarded pubescent girls. I’ll admit, the boy has done his marketing. Because his music is perfect for scenester fan girls. Its just unintelligible to the general population.
And I think that this is the first area of my contention with Jeffree’s music. He aims to appease a female audience aged 12-17 and thats basically all he achieves. His music is aimed at people who are, how you say, not very intelligent. I’m pretty sure Dr Seuss was better at rhyming lines and half his words were made up, and also he really hated children. It seems like this is what Jeffree is doing. He understands his audience are barely out of grade school and really need a strong rhyme pattern to be able to understand a song. Anything else is simply too complex. Why the hell confuse matters by discussing his inner anguish and using metaphors when he can simply sing (and I use that word loosely) about cupcakes and sequins.
It almost goes without saying that Jeffree is a huge pink-haired gimmick, but having listened to his music, I can’t emphasize it enough. His lyrics consisted almost entirely of scene catchphrases such as “so fierce”. I mean come on, its really hard to take anyone serious when they analogise their heart to sequins and cupcake. My heart is not like sequins, thanks. Nor will it ever feel like that. Go back to fail, dont pass go, and dont collect $200.
This brings me to my next dislike, the fact his lyrics were so self referential. I’m generally not a fan of books/movies/poems which are self refential, they need to be very clever for me to appreciate them. Take my pot head maths tutor’s buddhist poetry for example. Top quality mindfuck material, where the poem acknowledges that it is a poem. But Jeffree Star’s references to himself are neither intelligent nor witty. “I’m Jeffree Star” and “I’m a fucking star” may constitute self awareness at the very literal level, but its a stretch to say they were clever or even well played.
I wish I could say Jeffree was trying to make decent music. I get that he plays his music off his whole asshole scenester schtick. But its not like he’s even half-way nuanced about playing off his own marketing points. He just acknowledges he is a scene kid and then (evidently) is so arrogant/deluded he doesnt even try to poke fun at this fact; he actually believes his own scene hype.
At least Pete Wentz in his self referential lyrics subtly mocks his own scene status. Jeffree is so self absorbed he seems to genuinely think that talking about himself is all he needs to do, and there doesnt need to be any kind of meaning or point to his songs BECAUSE HE IS JUST THAT FUCKING AMAZING. All he ends up doing is sounding like a huge unintentional parody of himself.
This brings me to the music . I ashamed myself by finding elements of the music to be half way decent. This was of course until i realized they are completely stolen from the 80′s. Also add to this the heavy level of filters on his voice, which obfuscate whether or not Jeffree actually has any singing talent at all.
I mean the music in one song, if you ignore the idiodic lyrics, sounds alright. Jeffree is almost bearable until you realise EVERY SONG SOUNDS THE SAME. They all use the same formula. Borrow a back beat from some 80′s or electronica song, add heavily filtered lyrics over the top and make a scene reference. Rinse, and repeat. His voice is exactly the same in every song to the point of being comical. There are some artists who can only sing in one key. Jeffree can only sing in one note.
The low point of his ‘career’ is probably the huge electronica fail that is Miss Boombox. Words can not describe how little talent it takes to produce something like it, but as a whole his entire ‘sound’ is an inept and unoriginal copy of what electronica has been doing for decades, with its only real selling point consistenting of its appeal to mindless scene kids who enjoy songs about rainbows, cupcakes and irrelevant violence references. Any redeeming qualities to his music are entirely down to stolen 80′s backbeats I already liked and an extremely skilled sound engineer.
Terrible? Yes. Untalented? Yes. Unoriginal? Yes. The worst? Not quite. I feel that Jeffree is too mediocre to even properly hate, and alas, he is only a speck on the ass of lousy music.
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