I listened to Adelitas Way\u2019s Home School Valedictorian <\/i>when I mowed our yard. It was the perfect album as it was around 45 minutes and I could usually finish mowing the yard before the last note of the last song. What I really enjoyed about HSV<\/i> was the way the lyrics and the music complimented each other. I liked the tales that were spun about relationships and about being defeated in various ways and yet finding a way to persevere. Thus, when The Getaway<\/i> found its way to my ears, I anticipated the same type of experience. I wanted to replace HSV<\/i> with this album and listen to the new tunes over and over. <\/p>\n
I can\u2019t do that. This album is a disaster and it starts out awful. Opening track \u201cBad Reputation\u201d is lazy, relying on clich\u00e9s like \u201cI don\u2019t give a fuck what you say\u201d \u2013 really? That\u2019s not been said before by a zillion other bands on a zillion other tunes \u2013 and that\u2019s within the first 33 seconds. The chorus then relies on repeating, \u201cI\u2019ve got a bad reputation \/ Bad bad bad.\u201d <\/p>\n
Before I go on, I like<\/i> Adelitas Way and enjoy them as a band. But much like the way I felt about Dokken when I first heard their awful Shadowlife <\/i>release, when hearing this disc, I wondered how a band could rise so high in my mind and come crashing so low with a new release. Suffice it to say, I don\u2019t like this album. I have to go on an archeological dig to find anything positive to say about it. The title track is a better constructed tune that I would have put as the opening track. \u201cGood Die Young\u201d follows with a pseudo-ballad, featuring lines like \u201cSo much more I would say if I had more time\u201d and \u201cWe all make mistakes in our lives.\u201d And it just doesn\u2019t get better. <\/p>\n
Songs are like a lawn mower and you need to nurture them with oil so that the engine doesn\u2019t lock up on you, sputter, and become a piece of junk. \u201cLow\u201d tries to find a groove but there\u2019s just not enough lubrication to get the parts moving in union. They lyrics are laughable \u2013 \u201cWhy do you hate me \/ why do you take me to the bottom of my self\u201d \u2013 before swinging for the fence with \u201cSticks and stones can break my bones.\u201d The first time I was mowing with this in my ears, I had to stop the mower and rewind this track. Did they really just sing that? Did they really just rely on those words in that order<\/i> as lyrics on a song? It was true; they did. <\/p>\n
While I despise the lyrics on this release, musically, \u201cShame\u201d and \u201cDeserve This\u201d are the only dim, mildly interesting highlights. The talents of guitarist Robert Zakaryan are displayed with some blues-based riffs and a guitar solo that doesn\u2019t double as a tranquilizer. Those two tunes are it, though, and they are idiotically tucked away at the end of the release. Maybe because the band felt like doing so would allow its listeners to accept the lyrics, which find them going for the lazy rhyme \u201cshame \/ game\u201d as the foundation of the song. <\/p>\n
Finding positive words to describe this release is difficult. I am unlikely to return to Home School Valedictorian<\/i> when I feel the urge to listen to a good Adelitas Way album. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9882],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-44620","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-adelitas-way","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44620","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44620"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}