It's a bit like the problem with pineapple pizza, after all. Pizza is good, and pineapple too. Together, they suck, and that's because there's something called "whole" and another called "the sum of the parts": incomprehensibly, the two concepts don't coincide. There are certain dynamics that govern the success of a mixture, some obscure, others understandable if you're willing to make a minimal logical effort.
Planet Funk are the most stomach-churning pineapple pizza ever tasted. Replace the two ingredients with "rock" and "electronics," and we end up with an album of disarming mediocrity, but also jarring, graceless, utterly wrong. In short, very, very, very bad. Planet Funk means Daft Punk custom-made for the general public that reads Rolling Stone while waiting at the ophthalmologist's. I listen to any "Who Said," with those vocalizations that keep going up because they can't guess a decent melody on the midrange, and my ears start painfully ringing: instead of getting pumped up, I feel like strangling myself with dental floss while listening to Motel Connection (remember them? No? Lucky you). Refer to the entry "Playing poorly," "horrible music." This is truly bad music, but not that guilty pleasure kind of bad: it's genuinely bad, authentic, whole, with no prospect of improvement.
The fact that Planet Funk are considered icons of Italian music makes me realize two things: 1) how Italians are damagingly foreign-loving, to the point that they can't tell good dance music from one that's crap but "in the end it's okay because it's sung in English and has synths and beats"; 2) how sad the state of Italian pop music is, forced to rely on this type of freak show that wouldn't even enter the hallway of a major label in England. Yet, here, PF are under a major label, and they enjoy enormous support from radio and TV (at least when music had some space), and I feel a bit more depressed if I'm unlucky enough to tune into these thoughts.
The questions are three, Planet Funk:
a) what the hell kind of name did you choose?
b) don't you just feel sad for yourselves for being such cheap heroes in such a provincial country?
c) what the hell kind of name did you choose?
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
02 Chase the Sun ()
I'm flying away
Running like the wind
As I chase the sun
Up spinning around
Circles in my mind
Sailing over the ground
04 The Switch ()
Could you push your button?
Could you feel that switch?
Could you push your button, like you rub an itch?
Can you find that button?
Can you find that switch?
Can you keep on pressing?
When you here the click.
Can you see me comin' now?
(See me switchin, see me switchin)
Can you see me switchin now?
(See me switchin, see me switching)
Look across your body,
Look into your eye,
underneath the surface,
something is awry.
Can you feel it pushing?
Pushing from inside,
things you cannot say,
will materialize.
Can you see me comin' now?
(See me switchin, see me switchin)
Can you see me switchin now?
(See me switchin, see me switching)
(Push it, push it)
Can you see me comin' now?
(See me switchin, see me switchin)
Can you see me switchin now?
(See me switchin, see me switching)
07 Paraffin ()
You were vanishing like paraffin
So you had to go back under
Flight B208 had been delayed
So you had to go back under
Our plane took off in pounding rain
I looked at you and we exchanged
I love my sister's touch
a loudspeaker's up above
Oh lady suck in deep from our paper
come somehow, oh no oh no oh no
You were vanishing like paraffin
So you had to go back under
Flight B2O8 had been delayed
So you had to go back under
Our plane took off in pounding rain
I looked at you and we exchanged
we exchanged...
I love my sister's touch
a loudspeaker's up above
Oh lady suck in deep from our paper
come somehow , oh no oh no
look how far is there our plane
it's still through rain and window panes
and you oh ohoooooo... x2
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