{"id":41260,"date":"2008-12-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/we-started-nothing\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:00:00","slug":"we-started-nothing","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/we-started-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"We Started Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The list reads like this: The Flying Lizards, Haysi Fantaysee, Altered Images, Voice Of The Beehive, Toni Basil, The Go-Go\u2019s, The Cardigans, even Franz Ferdinand. These are just some of the influences to be found all over We Started Nothing, <\/i>the debut album by the UK<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> duo known as The Ting Tings. We Started Nothing <\/i>is certainly an apropos title, since this release owes a deep bow of gratitude to all the \u201880s acts who paved the road for its surprising success.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

I, for one, am thrilled that the \u201880s sound seems to be making a comeback. Listen to Top 40 radio these days and you hear virtually every female artist clamoring for what is essentially the same song that has the new wave\/techno treatment. \u201cWomanizer\u201d by Britney Spears, \u201cSo What\u201d by Pink, \u201cHot \u2019N Cold\u201d by Katy Perry, \u201cKeeps Getting Better\u201d by Christina Aguilera, and yep, the Ting Tings\u2019 tomahawk slice, \u201cShut Up And Let Me Go.\u201d Sure, a little more variation would be nice, but compared to what else has been played in the course of the last fifteen years, I\u2019ll take it!<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Lead singer Katie White can sound like a petulant, spoiled brat at times, but her cheeky defiance is kinda fun and refreshing if you think about it. Jules De Martino keeps things grounded with a solid rhythm section and some clever hooks to keep the pop world spinning. Think of these two as a sunnier, much happier version of another male\/female duo attempting to move up into the public consciousness, The Kills. Coincidentally, music by both acts can be heard on the CW television series Gossip Girl<\/i> — a great place where you can hear fresh and new music by relatively unknown artists.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sure to be a follow-up hit, \u201cThat\u2019s Not My Name\u201d is just as infectious as \u201cShut Up,\u201d yet it has more meat on its bones to salivate over. The sweet ballad \u201cTraffic Light\u201d had me kicking myself, since I had an idea to write a song just like it a few weeks ago — where I equate myself and my two friends to the colors on the a traffic light (I\u2019m the yellow). Both \u201cGreat DJ\u201d and \u201cFruit Machine\u201d have already been indie singles and help to start the album off in the most percolating way possible. Ending the album is an entirely different story, however. \u201cImpacilla Carpisung\u201d is the Ting Tings\u2019 vain attempt at aping Japan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s Pizzicato Five, while the title track suffers from Katie singing in an entirely wrong register. It\u2019s unfortunate, too, since that track has such a great musical vibe to it, even throwing a horn section in for good measure.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

As their first crack at it, the Ting Tings probably couldn\u2019t have done any better. Consider this the party album of the year. Be sure to make me proud and play it for all of your friends on New Year\u2019s Eve. 2009 is going to be a year to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8307],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41260","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-ting-tings","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41260"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}