{"id":9336,"date":"2009-04-06T18:12:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2015-10-23T18:13:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:13:49","slug":"ep-review-marion-raven-heads-will-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/ep-review-marion-raven-heads-will-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Review: Marion Raven — Heads Will Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not as awful as the buzz might have you believe, Heads Will Roll<\/i>, the EP by Norwegian pop vocalist-turned rocker grrl Marion Raven offers slightly above-average rock. The playing is tight and focused, if offering nothing in the way of innovation. The vocals are a strong point; harmonies are tight and reasonably inventive for the genre. The opening track, “Spit You Out,” has a chunka-chunka guitar figure that keeps things moving; the pick-sliding-on-strings effect hearkens Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick (though the playing is, again, nowhere near as inventive).<\/p>\n

There’s an inescapable emphasis on cock-tease subject matter, made clear by titles like “All I Wanna Do is You” and “Good 4 Sex” (Didn’t the Prince-ism of numbers-4-words wear itself out around, um, 1995?) The only misstep is the acoustic track that wraps up the disc, “Let Me Introduce Myself.” Something of a little sister to Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” the song is chock full of embarrassing clich\u00e9s of interest to few over fifteen.<\/p>\n

Also not as titillating as you might’ve heard, the video clip for the title track (included on the disc in Quicktime format) adds little to Raven’s legacy. She’s a pretty face with — it must be said — a nice body, and her female costars are pleasant enough to view. Inside a sheet metal cube, the gals writhe and touch each other ever-so-delicately while Ms. Raven stares into the camera and sings her song. Gentleman callers peer through slots at the crypto-sapphic goings-on. The clip would make appropriate between-movie filler on Cinemax late-night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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