It looks like we've found ourselves someone eager to take on the long-discarded cover-crown of Pat Boone.
Colin Monroe is a Toronto based singer whose new single is an anemic take on Kanye West's brilliant "Flashing Lights". Mr. Monroe's version provides the spoonfuls of sugar to soften the track up enough to sell it to middle school suburbia, the perfect Pat Boone formula: The song retains only the catchy hook, and covers it with a delicious white fudge coating.
Toronto's Yonge & Dundas Square gets served up with a moderate helping of cheese, in the form of a Blade Runner/LSD trip treatment, and an entirely expected "flashing light" motif.
Overall, the video does exactly what it set out to do, because now you know who Colin Monroe is. Who? Exactly.
On the YouTube page, the song is listed as a "Remix", which serves as a solemn reminder of just how stupid people are.
It's not a remix. It's a cover. A remix takes elements from the original and re-interprets them. This is more of a re-marketing.
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Links:
Kanye West - Flashing Lights
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