{"id":9701,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/lennon\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:24","slug":"lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/len.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/len.jpg\" alt=\"len\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nLennon<br \/>\n&#8220;\u00935:30 Saturday Morning\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Arista)<\/h4>\n<p>Lennon&#8217;s debut release starts off promising in spite of her name. \u00a0To be fair, it&#8217;s actually her given name; Lennon Murphy in full. \u00a0All the same, when you&#8217;re a wanna-be rock star, introducing yourself as \u0093Lennon\u0094 isn&#8217;t the wisest move. \u00a0Sure, Madonna got away with it, but she was invoking a religious icon, not a musical one. \u00a0Whatever. \u00a0The first track kinda-rocks and has a vaguely Kittiesque tone and title (\u0093Property of Goatfucker\u0094). \u00a0The second one sounds a bit like Portishead \u00ad the same sort of vocal filters and echos \u00ad and the third track is reminiscent of Fiona Apple, without the clever lyrics and biting wit. \u00a0Mid-disc, \u0093I&#8217;m Asking,\u0094 offers a haunting refrain \u00ad \u0093Is this what you want me to be \/ To be anything you want me to be\u0094 \u00ad but it&#8217;s really the production mix that deserves credit, not Lennon&#8217;s voice, which is unfailingly mediocre. \u00a0Afterwards, the albums nods off into blah rock piano, as if Lennon would like very much to have Tori Amos&#8217; talent, but instead settled for shouting more loudly and banging harder on the keys. \u00a05:30 Saturday Morning is an almost total waste of 49:05 minutes. \u00a0Listeners would be better served by going back to the originals (say, Dummy or Little Earthquakes) and wasting no time on this imitator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lennon &#8220;\u00935:30 Saturday Morning\u0094&#8221; (Arista) Lennon&#8217;s debut release starts off promising in spite of her name. \u00a0To be fair, it&#8217;s actually her given name; Lennon Murphy in full. \u00a0All the same, when you&#8217;re a wanna-be rock star, introducing yourself as \u0093Lennon\u0094 isn&#8217;t the wisest move. \u00a0Sure, Madonna got away with it, but she was invoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[519,3590,4203],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}