Average Rating: 5.2/10
Overall Rating: 3.5/10
1. Bang Bang Pow Pow Ft. Lil Wayne (6/10)
2. Bottlez Ft. Detail (7/10)
3. Default Picture (3/10)
4. It’s Not You Ft. Pitbull & Chuckie (5/10)
5. 5‘O Clock Ft. Wiz Khalifa & Lilly Allen (5.5/10)
6. Show Time (4/10)
7. Rock Bottom (2/10)
8. Look At Her Go Ft. Chris Brown (7.5/10)
9. Mix’d Girl (4/10)
10. I Don’t Give a Fuck (5/10)
11. Drowning Again Ft. One Change (5/10)
12. When I Come Home (4/10)
13. Best Love Song Ft. Chris Brown (6/10)
14. Turn All The Lights On Ft. Ne-Yo (8/10)
15. Center of the Stage Ft. R. Kelly & Bej Major (5/10)
16. Regular Girl (4/10)
17. Nothin’ Ft. E-40 & Detail (7/10)
T-Pain has been out of the scene for a while now, he hasn’t been making much features and he has only released one mixtape in the last three years since releasing his lukewarm, auto-tune filled album “Th33 Rings” in 2008. To be honest, I’m not sure why he stopped making music for a time period like three years, but he said his music is better than ever, first of all, every artist says that when they have an album out, but I’m willing to give his fourth album, Revolver a chance anyway.
To be honest, Revolver was a very doubtful album, because, T-Pain did not use Autotune this time, yes, he’s not using Autotune this time around, he is actually using something far more advanced which he calls the “T-Pain Effect”, you know what that means? Autotune x100, and the bigger issue is here that it did not only effect the music on the album, it also effected the concept. Throughout Revolver, T-Pain started to sound like he is drowning now other than really singing, I’m not saying that there were not some great songs here, but the music in the album was limited, and the concept was simply just too simple and it left too much space for filler and really any track to be put in.
Revolver has pretty much everything when it comes to mainstream hip-hop and mainstream music. T-Pain had his famous R’n’B styled songs, punchline rap songs, hardcore and club music. Revolver gave him more diversity and space to use his new toy, the hellish T-Pain effect, which was overused Autotune, and that was the problem with the music, the music on Revolver was generally mediocre, only too much Autotune was on the album plus it really felt a bit directionless as well.
T-Pain had almost every sub-genre of hip-hop and R’n’B open to the radio on this album, one big type on the album was the R’n’B based music, some examples would be “Default Picture” a repetitive T-Pain affect filled track, “5’O Clock” which had too much of T-Pain’s toy, but Lilly Allen provided a great, calm hook, Wiz Khalifa had a good verse, and the production was soothing, “Rock Bottom” was another one, it was basically about a relationship going on rock bottom, it was a poor track, being very repetitive and T-Pain effect filled, “I Don’t Give a Fuck” talked about T-Pain doing it with his girlfriend’s friends, it’s concept was really something stupid, but at least it didn’t have too much T Pain effect, or in that case Autotune, and the production wasn’t trying too hard, “Drowning Again” could have been an excellent song, it was about heartbreak, It was emotional, however, the T Pain effect in the song was overused to the point that T Pain sounded like he was choking on water when he was recording the song, “Best Love Song” talked about well, being the best love song, it wasn't a bad song, but at the same time it really wasn’t anything special, and “Set The Stage” was a good track, it was about a girl ‘setting the stage’ and attracting T-Pain, R Kelly and Bej Major, T-Pain sounded like he was drowning, however, R Kelly and Bej Major made up for a mediocre track at best.
Another big part of the album was made up of the punchline rap song, “Bang Bang Pow Pow” was mainly just aggression and punchlines, the production was strong, T-Pain actually did okay, it was one of those rare cases when the T Pain effect actually worked, however, Lil Wayne had some terrible lines in the song, some of the worst in his career in my opinion, “Nothin’” was another great punchline track, T-Pain did not do very well, having some very poor lines here and there, however, E-40’s verse was more than enough to make the song a decent fair enough track to listen to.
The club tracks were also firmly present on the album, “It’s Not You” was a firm track at best, the production was very danceable, however, T-Pain filled it with his weapon, and Pitbull had a usual lackluster verse that was a bit better than his usual admit tingly, personally, I think if the track was just a beat, it would have been a great track, “Turn The Lights On” was another banger, despite the extra Autotune, which was the usual case it was a rocking track, one of the most energy filled tracks and one of the best tracks on this album, and “Look At Her Go” was another great banger, it suffered from the same problem as Turn The Lights On had on T-Pain’s end, and it was a lot less energized and a lot less rhythmatic, otherwise it was a great track.
Revolver has many flaws, for one thing the extra Autotune, or in other words the ‘T-Pain effect’ really affected on the music, and at some point making T Pain sound like he was downing or choking on water. The concept was really wide spread, giving the album repetitive concepts and filler music, also the music never really ranged on anything. Artists evolve; T-Pain didn’t really evolve, making his simple style seem old, bland and really repetitive.
Revolver didn’t really change anything for me on my opinion about T-Pain. To me, he is still an Autotune overusing artist who honestly just seems to want the attention. The music on Revolver wasn't terrible, and there were a few good tracks here and there. Revolver was just an average, commercial album that really never lived up to any of its standards, and as a returning album, let’s just say T Pain is better off pushing the album back to an unknown release date, because like I said this album wasn’t a terrible album, but I think it would have been better off not on the shelves.
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