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they are uncomparable, you can't really judge the paris hilton album against a sonic youth album, that's like comparing a pacemaker with cotton candy. in it's league, the paris album is something good and hilarious at the same time, and the thing is that it's not supposed to be that, it should sound like a lindsay lohan or an ashley simpson album but it doesn't, it's actually far better in at least two different levels.
and i don't like paris hilton as a public person, i don't buy into her and her celebrity being, that's why i was mopre surprised about it.
rather ripped on the other hand, can be and almost will be judged against a creteria of 20-plus (major and otherwise) releases by the same band, as well as albums that have come out ever since the release of sonic nurse, and with that criteria, i think that album is mediocre, half-assed, like if they rushed the whole thing to get it out on time and go on tour without a care for the songwriting process.
paris hilton knows it would be a waste of time if she were to write songs because she doesn't know, furthermore, it's the standard m.o. of major labels dealing with pop singer to pursue outside songwriters. when noisemachine or someone else said that that album could be anyone's, he is right, her a&r and managers and perhaps herself selected these songs, but they ended up in her album, and that's what makes it good, there's a craft to doing a pop song and these songs are very well done, unlike much of pop which tries to pass up on half assed songs "sung" by singers with just attitude and celebrity scandals, which paris might have resorted to, but she didn't; that's what's surprising.
whatever the case, the album could be a stinking bowl of self-obsessed ditties with unfinished hooks and little to no arrangements, but the powers that be aimed for something else with a little quality and they succeeded in delivering an album with enough good songs to top the charts (which is unlikely that will happen), unlike a certain new york band who strived to put together a bunch of songs and did photoshopped red and black cover to pass off as a contract obligation. if you can compare rather ripped with paris' album is with the songs and, whithin their own styles and history, paris' album has better songs than sy's latest.
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