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The Scissor Sisters, a New York quintet, two years after their self-titled debut album "Scissor Sisters," release "Ta-Dah" (big title!).
I had already listened to the band's first work (?) made in the U.S.A., but if possible my disgust has even grown listening to the second.
In Italy, they are mostly known for "I don’t feel like dancin," a 70s-style piece in which the "sisters" declare they "really don’t feel like getting into the dance," but for those who have had the luck to avoid this dreadful listen, just think that in their previous work, they completely revamped and proposed in a house version "Comfortably numb" by Pink Floyd.
"Ta-Dah" is a disgustingly pop album (no need to involve other genres) dominated by insufferable Bee-Gees style falsettos or if we want to keep it national scale, akin to Alan Sorrenti. The improbable title is due to the album packaging, where you find a rectangle and by pulling its two ends, it opens. Basically, "Ta-Dah" is nothing more than the classic expression of surprise and amazement. An album specifically built to sell, a clearly trash revival-parody. It’s known that sometimes trash is also fun if you don’t take it too seriously, well this album doesn’t even amuse me. A completely tasteless smirk appears on my face listening to "I can’t decide" a song with the usual shrill choruses reminding me of the TV show themes about plants or even the old farm song in a dance floor version, logically.
Anyway, let’s move on, given that "Ta-Dah" is clearly an album made to "climb the charts", could it miss the slow piece? No, and inevitably the ballad of "Land oh thousand words" arrives. Pathetic is the right adjective. I tell myself okay, it can only get better, well it gets worse; I mention only a few tracks to give an idea of how low it stoops. "Kiss you off" joyfully invites you to kiss where the sun doesn't shine, leading up to the "gem" of track number 9 "Paul McCartney" (that’s its actual name), it's clear you won’t hear anything reminiscent of the Beatles, but rather another useless dance tune.
Some have called them genius, others carefree, some unique and never banal, I simply call them ridiculous and it’s not even said that it’s an insult to them.
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