1 post tagged “meatloaf”
If you're easily disturbed, especially by freakish musical tastes, you may want to stop reading this right now. No, I'm not kidding. I am not responsible for your reading past this point.
This morning I was doing the standard scan of my LiveJournal friends list, and I came across a note from a friend that Meatloaf was releasing a new CD today-- Bat Out of Hell III, The Monster Is Loose. The friend's phrasing suggested that he was extremely horrified by this turn of events, but my response was entirely different. "Oh! I must pick that up on the way to work!" I went to the Borders website and looked to see if any of the stores in my area had it. Emeryville... DING! I needed a gift card anyway, for my personal costume contest prize. (Note to coworkers: be the first to identify the costume and win.)
In a lot of ways, Meatlof is like Andrew Lloyd Webber to me. When I see something like Cats or Phantom of the Opera I know that it's pop kitch, and that it's cheap theatrical manipulation. But I'm OK with that. I'm willing to be manipulated, and I'll even enjoy it. I'm all about grandiose and theatrical-- it's one of the reasons I've been a Queen fan since I was old enough to feed quarters into the jukebox to hear Bohemian Rhapsody over and over and over and over again.
I'm only up to the fourth track, but the early review is that it's exactly what I expected. The first track is a bit too metal for my tastes, but now it's settling into the groove I like.
