Andrew W.K.
I Get Wet

"This Review Is a Duplicate." (A Random Debaser User)

"We want fun and you better believe it!
We want fun 'cos we desperately need it!
We want fun, but you don't understand...
... you gotta HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! make me a man!" (Andrew W.K.)

Just over a year into my "DeBaserian Birth," I allow myself a purely fun review because two days ago, tired of listening to autumnal things, I decided to treat myself to something of pure escapism, and while looking through my collection, this "I Get Wet" by the meteor from a dark past and uncertain future, "Andrew W.K." (2001), popped up.

Once again, I will start with the conclusions:

this album is so irrelevant artistically and so shamelessly derivative that upon listening to it, all you want to do is jump around the house and find something to noisily smash, making it clear that this is the declared intention of the author and combining that fact with at a party, years ago, I sustained a lacerated wound to my head from dancing (?) to "Party Hard", I will be very lenient towards the "work"... and screw objectivity, but that's nothing new to me, I think...

The guy's biography is quite hazy, and summarizing it, it says that at 4 he could already play the piano, at 13 he had already collaborated with many bands in his city (Stanford, California), and at 22 he released his debut work, "I Get Wet", which was an unexpected public success since good old Andrew practically came out of nowhere, in the following years he released other albums, which did not replicate the fortunes of the first, but I'll stop here because there's very little to know beyond that, as the musician himself reveals very little about himself.

Speaking about the album, one does not need to be a connoisseur to understand its intentions, "I Get Wet" just wants to entertain, make you dance (?) and for once bring to the forefront a generation suspended between being a bit weird and a bit nerd, definitely losers in short (did I use too many Anglicisms?), and also make some nice money of course, thanks to all those annoyingly pop choruses that Andrew W.K. sticks in the middle of definitely tight rhythms that invite a good healthy moshing without too much courtesy.

Annoyingly indeed, but since we are human, we shouldn't be surprised if then in the shower or on the street, we find ourselves humming the little tune of Kiss's "She is Beautiful".
Mentioning Kiss, much of the "work" is made, if you then add a bit of electro attitude, combine it with a bit of FM Punk and mix it all with a tendency for useless excess, you have "I Get Wet" nicely formatted, but it's also useless to mention its influences, three words would suffice: Ignorant, Ignorant, Ignorant... but with a taste for fun, carefree, and very, very, very roguish...

Yes, in short, a dispensable album that adds nothing to the history of music but, it must be remembered, neither does it have the remotest intention, and the chorus of "We Want Fun" that I quote at the beginning stands there to carve it clearly in your mind.

So, if you have a little party to organize, I recommend it, and now you can politely tell me to scr#w off.

Mo.

P.S. with all this, I don't hide that I'd give it three stars just for the cover....