Arizona-based artist Instructor Liam West has a new single out. It’s called ‘If You’re Sick Eat Watermelon’. At 46 seconds, the song is best thought of as a teaser. Listen to it, and you can even call it a teaser inside a teaser. That’s how absurd or unconventional the song is. If you’re looking for a more traditional pop song or contemporary music, best to stay away. And if you see a music review read like this, know that the song is quirky or bad.
As for this current song, I’d say the song is half bad and half good. The song starts with two people talking, with the instrumentation not having kicked in yet. Both speakers sound like children, most especially the second one. Both speakers talk about being sick.
‘I feel sick,’ the first speaker says. ‘Me too,’ the second speaker says.
It’s only after the dialogue is over that the instrumentation (piano) kicks in. The piano plays very low and is very uninspired, if you will.
Then the vocals kick in. They are warm and inviting – even though they are more speech-like than they are full blown singing. This is a singer with a beautiful voice.
The lyrics go this way: ‘If you’re sick, eat a piece of watermelon. Yeah, yeah, yeah!’. Soon after, vocals and piano instrumentation disappear, with completely new instrumentation kicking in. This is the part that made me say that this song is a teaser inside a teaser, or perhaps it’s a teaser with two teasers. If you’re confused, hang around: I’ll explain.
After the piano and vocals disappear, you get what I can generically call drumming. This instrumentation is energetic and rhythmic, compared to the dull piano from before. This rhythmic pattern plays solo for about five seconds, with the piano and vocals from before coming back and continuing like they never left.
SCORE/Good: This is a song where it’s difficult to pin a label like ‘good’ or ‘mediocre’. The artist has the voice, and both his instrumentation and lyrics have potential. I doubt whether this is the song he would want you to be introduced to their music. Listening to the brief elements in this song, I cannot claim this is a mediocre effort. Perhaps the strategy of releasing it as a single is a flop, but I doubt my job here is to tell what an artist should release as singles. If the artist here went for creativity or experimentation, perhaps they have reached their goal. As a listener, I’m not buying that strategy.
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