Start as you mean to go on, they say, and it’s a lesson the chimps charged with compiling the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack would appear to have taken to heart. Witness Alicia Keys’ painful album opener Rapture – yes, that’s right, a cover of the old Blondie record that represented the last word in artless rapping till the advent of Mr. C, the Shamen, and Ebeneezer Goode (all due apologies to any bemused non-uk readers). Keysy’s channeling of the spirit of Debbie Harry and chums comes garnished with a bit of half-hearted girl power panting – “Here we go ladies”, “Show what you got” – and references to the parent product, lest anyone momentarily forget what movie the record they are listening to ties in with. Not much chance of that, given that the most glaring of those Sex and the City references finds the TV theme tune welded onto the Blondie composition,...
- 6/9/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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