Lindsay Lohan's life is a circus. No two ways around being internationally in/famous for a party girl persona that would eventually lead to jail time: LiLo's career and its demise hold the bizarre allure of some Ray Bradbury circus. Babe Rainbow has taken this tragic fable and synthesized one of LiLo's (crappy) pop tunes into a freakshow track that stumbles and gaits along with the drunken humor of someone who read the entire wikipedia page about LiLo. This track, in conjunction with the larger "Let Me Shine For You" album is a deconstruction of glittery pop through re-interpretation of Lohan's heavily influenced (read:preassembled) music. Fitting, that the tracks are each handled by producers who are making names for themselves as outre artists and experimenters in sound. There are some pretty meta layers happening all throughout this album but the opener 'Stuck' spreads the gallows humor thickest of all the different producers represented in this six track effort (all available to download for free!!).
Babe Rainbow's interpretation of 'Stuck' isn't as spry as the original. LiLo's album edit was the kind of dunka-dunka, synth-driven pop that could have been written by Santogold before she broke out of her Ashley Simpson cage. The original could have easily been written for a great number of equally attractive, talented and disposable young women. The Babe Rainbow interpretation strikes at the trashy/throw-away vibe by recrafting the song entirely into something that sounds unlike anything near the radio. The track works by retaining its pop heart. The tracks soars because of its invention. It slows everything down to the bounce of a slow-mo scene where the camera shows us how much creepier the circus is at night. I'm sticking with that metaphor because it really is perfect. If the idea of a highly self-aware album full of meta-commentaries on the recently incarcerated sounds awesome to you, go download it. http://tinyurl.com/2wgdr4k
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