VIDEO PREMIERE: Shontelle's Vid For Comeback Single - Licky (Under The Covers)
Oh, dear Lord...
First things first. We actually like Shontelle. We like her a lot. We follow her on twitter, watch her videos, have her songs (legally) downloaded. We're feeling the fact that she can both rap and sing, and she's a Borderline Really Pretty, too.
But we are not - we, repeat - we are NOT feeling either this song or this wack-arse vid. The lame attempt to make her another Rhi circa the GGGB era just doesn't work for us. Now, we may not be the biggest fans of Rhi, but we can admit that she is considerably higher up on the music food chain than Shontelle. Trying to make the latter another version of the former will not wash with many. Just remember Def Jams' attempts to make Rhi another version of the Queen B in the A Girl Like Me. Sure, when B wasn't around it was all good, we enjoyed the v. nice Unfaithful and the #1 single S.O.S, but, when B came back with Deja Vu and Irreplaceable, We Ride flopped. Coincidence? We think not.
These foolish attempts ALWAYS fail.
What they should have done is give this girl another whole image, stick to the whole 'island-girl' thing they gave Rhi initially. It would have worked, especially in a world that is fast growing tired of everyone trying to 'go bad'...
To sum up; this fails HARD. It works about as much as that fake-arse GGGB image they've given her...
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