Album Review: The Flavr Blue Deliver Blue Dream Worth Listening
The Flavr Blue’s new album, Blue Dream, is a 14-track collection fronted by Grammy-nominated Hollis Wong Wear, and produced/ vocally backed by Lace Cadence and Parker Joe to fluidly pulse together electronic pop, chilled R&B, and melodic hip-hop rhythms. Frankly, this record is hit after hit, and does not ask for over-thought or depth, which is why I like it.
We can all judge “mainstream” tracks that use “kitschy” hooks and melodies to turn songs into automatic sing-alongs. Yet, I cannot recall one memory where I had a group of friends sing along as avidly/ easily to a Maria Callas album compared to a Rihanna one. Now, of course, these two are opposite in spectrum and even talent, BUT that is the point. There is the music you put on when you want analyze and feel humanity, and then there is music that says, “Okay, can we have fun now?”. Blue Dream is the latter with my fave tracks, “Live It Up”, “Fetti & Spaghetti”, and “Cause I Wanna” feeling like they were personally wrapped and packaged by Nightlife to gift itself. I can picture me and my friends singing along to Hollis’ “made for pop” voice the same way we sang to Aaliyah and Britney; with no thought and all the bliss. The Flavr Blue have created a record that has taken everything we love about the current mainstream of music and said, “Here you go. Enjoy!”. Blue Dream literally sounds like the care package your best friend sends you when your sick or away from home; except its filled with the favorite sounds you like in your music such as, heavy baselines, lightly digitized rhythms, sugary synths, and simple verses/ choruses meant to be repeated in your head over and over again. If you do not walk away from “All On Me”, “365 ft. Jay Park, Cha Cha Malone”, “ Simple Love ft. VanJess”, and “My Vice ft. YMTK” then you should ask yourself, “Why can’t I be happy?”.
Okay, I know that previous statement is a bit harsh. Forgive me! Yet, Blue Dream is worth the harsh defense. We all need music that does not ask us to be mindful or even emotional. Instead, it ask us for one thing that is the ultimate human goal: to be happy and stay happy. The Flavr Blue’s Blue Dream is happy and comes out on October 27, which you can buy by Clicking Here.
ALSO CHECKOUT THEIR PIANOS NYC SHOW ON NOVEMBER 13. #youmust
