Lexie, Hit Me With Your Prius REVIEW

Lexie, Hit Me With Your Prius may seem at first glance to be another low-effort meme rap project from JBK$R. The more you dig into it, though, the more obvious it becomes that this album is complex and well planned. The biggest thing about this album is that it seems confusing. In the first minute of the project, JBK$R says he got Hannah a wedding ring, but he asks Cassidy to marry him. Then later he’s flirting with Madison on the song Madi S’nailer. And at the end of The Title Track, he seems pretty fond of Lexie herself. Even if this weren’t contradictory, the audience doesn’t have much of a context for who these people are or why we should care. Get Got has a lot of lines that don’t really relate to a concept or a joke in any way, and most other songs have the same out of place unexplainability to a lesser extent. I have no clue what 30 days and 7 hours means, or what the significance is of a plastic parrot. I couldn’t tell you what he paid Hannah for, Edmonton can’t be in Fillmore County since Alberta doesn’t have counties, I’m not sure what hardwiring a Buick looks like, and the song about Club Penguin seems incredibly out of place. But I think that’s part of the appeal behind Lexie, Hit Me With Your Prius. No two songs are alike in any way. The short nature of each song makes the album very refreshing. When a 15-track album barely crosses 20 minutes, nothing can really overstay its welcome. The chaotic nature of Lexie Hit Me seems all the more intentional when you dive into it, especially with how off the wall some of these lyric choices are. The audience may not know what’s happening, and I don’t think JBK$R does either. That’s why he loves so many different people, that’s why characters pop in and out, that’s why the setting is inconsistent. It’s all very hard to put together, but at it's core, it’s all about him. What it’s saying about him, we aren’t supposed to know. This album is a mystery. And it’s perfect that way.

The Mummy Movie Review

The Pharaoh goes shopping at Barnes and Noble.

So I'm at Fosse's house in Cedar Rapids and we watched The Mummy. It's one of his favorites.

A review of The Mummy (1999) starring Brendan Fraser.

Really good animation. Granted, we watched it on Apple TV so it could look better....

Mummy man is super cool. He does a ton of sick tricks. I don't know why he stole the dude's eyes at the beginning though. That doesn't make much sense. But they got the 10 plagues out of order. The river turning to blood is supposed to come BEFORE the locusts.

And are we really surprised that the villain is a stereotypical French guy?

5/10, pretty entertaining watch. 

Mud Movie Review

I'm waiting for it. That Greenlights. I want it.

Devon wanted to watch Mud, so here's my review of Mud (2012) starring Matthew McConaughey.

The kids act like kids in the movie, which is accurate but also they aren't necessarily the most appropriate. McConaughey is awesome as Mud. I wish I were homeless and living in a boat on a deserted island.

It's sad how Ellis put all his stock in Mud as his last hope that love exists. You really hate to see it when that falls apart and he decides love isn't real. So he's just like me frfr

8/10

By the way, since Reese Witherspoon is in this movie, Nebraska besties, y'all should go see Legally Blonde The Musical when it comes to Lincoln at the end of the month.

Hurley REVIEW

Hurley…. Is…. Really good actually! And really unique! Weezer put in the hours to make this album stand out despite its short production window, and it paid off. Hurley is loud and fuzzy and proud of it. The guitars are weighty and the synths are huge. The lyrics are audacious and Rivers’ newly adopted singing style reflects that perfectly. He’s practically screaming on some of these cuts, and he’s surprisingly able to pull it off convincingly. Rivers sounds like a dude trying to impersonate a nerd, rather than the nerd he is. And the one time he ditches this style for a more somber tone, on the track Unspoken, it ends up being the best song on the album by far. All in all, Hurley is incredibly catchy. Ruling Me, Trainwrecks, Brave New World, and Hang On are all so memorable you’ll catch yourself humming them for the rest of the week. Even the least of these tracks makes a huge impact. Like, even if you can’t stand the drum machine on Smart Girls, its catchiness brings you in. And there really is no excuse for how trashy Time Flies sounds technically, but the melody in itself is so nice it almost comes off as a feature instead of a bug. The deluxe edition CD has some nice bonus tracks too. All My Friends are Insects is a fun little ditty, as is Represent. And how could I go on without mentioning the acoustic cut I Want to Be Something, which acts as a nice breather compared to the intensity of the rest of the record? Hurley Deluxe feels like a real deluxe- it has nice bonuses for those who want it. But if you go for the standard CD instead, you still get a complete and worthwhile experience. Even at their worst, Weezer knows how to make fun, catchy, and memorable tracks. At their best, you get gems like Hurley.

Credits-

The opening clip is sourced from the video "Fred and Weezer Go To The Moon" by FRED.

The audio of Rivers saying "You're a poopyhead" is sourced from the video "AVGN responds to the Nostalgia Critic!" by Cinemassacre.

The audio of Rivers screaming is the song "Big Enough" from the Kirin J. Callinan album Bravado (2017).

All videos not mentioned above and left without watermarks are from the official Weezer YouTube channel, from official Weezer media such as live DVDs, DVDs included with albums, or recorded by Icystorm 9.

All other sound effects are stock and are used with permission under a creative commons license (I hope).