5 posts tagged “adventures”

Oh noes its another Ch!pz vid.  This is more of a saturday monring cartoon saving the day type thing only in PRESENT DAY! that's right, no time traveling in this video. However, there are poorly CGed aliens baffing about so I guess its at the same level as their previous videos.

Its a beautiful summer day in some dry climate while the Ch!pz crew is in a bus on the way to some summer camp.  C!lla and Rach-L randomly have some bonding moment by sharing bracelets while the guys seem to be playing games on their cell phones.  When they get out of the bus, an UFO appears out of nowhere and vaporizes all the people and the bus.  But conveniently they neglected to target the Ch!pz crew.

They go to their strategic and secret hideout, find the alien base that happens to be nearby, and read up on the alien race.  Inbetween filming all of this, there are random cameos of Rach-L singing and the crew dancing in a tunnel- most likely one leading to their secret hideout or whatever. Also, in the process, they have a sudden wardrobe change into complete black outfits to keep in spirit of the lyrics of the song.

Anyway, the crew approaches the alien gate with the poorly animated aliens guarding it.  C!lla flashes mirrors of them and appearantly that is their weakness to they both faint.  They untie the captive people though the bus is still nowhere to be found.  Just when everything seemed to go according to the rescue plan, a whole bunch of those aliens appear to stop Ch!pz.

The two groups settle this with a dance off.  Ch!pz when, the aliens combust or something.  Anyway, everything is shown being solved while the UFO retreats.  End of video.  See? just a short little adventure.  It still bothers me that everything in these videos is solved by dancing, well actually its just in the later two videos that I just watched; but it's still bothersome.

Song isn't that bad; its a little reminiscent of the pop that I listened to when I was a second grader or so.  Though the video is obviously targeting a younger audience (the video I used was appearantly broadcasting this on Fox Kids in a somewhat related note), the lyrics aren't necessarily as limited as an audience.  Actually Cowboy's lyrics weren't that bad either.  It was a subject
that could get the attention of a somewhat larger audience. 

However, the song is rather mediocre to listen to in terms of the fact that the song doesn't sound entirely original, but most songs don't.  It's not perfect, but hey- nothing is.  It's not something I would listen to over and over again but you can introduce this kind of stuff to children and stuff and they might enjoy it.

So as I have mentioned, this was the first Ch!pz song ever that I've heard.  I was going through a series of dance songs on someone's playlist and came across this.  I found the song rather catchy despite the cheesy lyrics and decided to look into the band.

The video opens with the Ch!pz crew captured in a pirate ship and the captain claiming to be Captain Hook makes threatening statements to them though he doesn't look much like the Captain Hook we all are familiar with.  Then, of course, I suppose they were trying to avoid copyright infringements.  As the song starts, there are cameos of all four members singing the chorus.

Ch!pz fights the crew and fails.  So the captain and crew force the in-demand hottie, Rach-L, to wear a sexy dress while the other three members are tied up.  And at one point, they all escape and out of nowhere, there is a random dance number.  The battle on the ship because a dance-off.  Cheesy, I know, but it was interesting to watch since you can't go wrong with dancing unless the people are really bad dancers.

The dancing skills of Ch!pz are obviously superior so Captain Hook gets all frustrated and pissed.  He and the crew try to fight the normal way and they still fail because the good guys always win in this sort of thing.  In the last few moments, Kevin takes a picture of frustrated and humiliated Captain Hook on his cell phone and the group returns to their normal time.  Then, Rach-L is seen looking at that same picture and comparing it to some guy who is sitting in the same position.

The video wasn't anything special per-say.  It was another Ch!pz adventure.  I liked this one a bit better than the Cowboy video because of the costuming and the dance number.  I would only recommend this video to watch if you're a child or if you have nothing better to do than to watch it.  Remember, Ch!pz is full of cheese, so deal with it!

Now, since most of the songs have a "theme," so do the videos, so the video relates directly to the song.  I've seen a few other videos for this album and I find that they are like episodes of a saturday morning cartoon... or something like that.

I've mentioned that this song makes a decent opening for the CD.  Nothing really great, just another song that could be listened to just to pass the time.  The whole pop/dance/southwestern feel to the song is nice though since its something that you don't cross everyday.

Since this targets a younger audience, the video is just as cheesy as their other songs.  Cowboy wasn't necessarily a cheesy song, which is a nice reason to place as the first of the album. They portrayed cowboys as the generic way that is shown all over TV and the like rather than just people that round up cows.

So the video begins like many of their other videos- Ch!pz is called to gather for a distress signal, which gives them an excuse to go back in time to solve another mystery.  In this case, they got stuck in a crappy Western imitation.  The video doesn't really bother me so far.  They are dressed in appropriate attire for that time and the group is randomly singing.  What bothers me is there's a point when Rach-L (the blonde) took a picture of some cowboy with her cellphone and the boy acted like it was completely normal.  I thought it would've been dumb to do things like that because it might affect the future, but that's just me being a realist again.  I don't like being a realist since it ruins things for me.

Something just to throw in here:  the only connection between this song and the video is the cowboy theme.  When you think about it, the lyrics don't have much to do with the video.  I mean, they're singing about cowboys in the rodeo and wanted to be a "cowgirl" for the boy.  The story of the video has not much to do with that.

Anyway, back to the video. The group find the wanted poster of a criminal and they ask people about it.  They find that the guy steals another guys horses and blah blah...  The group ends up in the generic Western bar and they dance.  The public seems to like it.  However, this jolly moment in ruined by the entrance of the man pictured in the wanted poster.

All of these people seem the fear the criminal even though all he did was steal horses.  The guy totally hits on Rach-L because she's apparently a in-demand hottie.  (I totally think C!lla is a lot more attractive since I like girls like her, but I'm...eh... different) Rach-L gives the guy a strong bitch-slap and Kevin laughs at him.  To show that he's such a tough criminal, he challenges Kevin to some face-off outside.  

 The two try shooting at each other to realize that neither has bullets that C!lla with her awesome ninja skills seemed to take out of the guns while no one else was looking.  The villain runs off like the pathetic coward he is, Peter catches him with rope, and the guy who had his horses stolen got the horses back and drags the criminal around for public humiliation. 

Anyway, the video ends with the group celebrating and returning back into their own time.  Basically, the same feeling as an episode of a simple children cartoon, only with a musical group in real life. Now I don't really recommend the video to people, but it can entertain children so if you feel like randomly showing some little cousin something out of boredom, this can be the video.

Seriously, sorry for the wait. I was going to review a Jewel video but that got postponed because I was lazy on some days and I was really busy on the others.  Well I'm back with a Ch!pz album to enjoy.

1. Cowboy :: So this whole thing in the beginning is similar to that "Cotton Eyed Joe" song (I'm too lazy to look up the artist right now) in the sense that the song has a dance beat but has the south-western diddle to it.  From this song onward, I found that this group is a very pop. I somewhat like it since it reminds me of the pop I would listen to when I was a little girl. I was a nineties kid so there were bands Spice Girls, N'Sync, Brittany Spears, 98˚, A*teens, and so on at that time.  Ch!pz isn't like some of those groups, but there are definite pop elements and the way the group sings together makes me think of pop groups like A*teens in which there are both boys and girls in the band.  Anyway, back to the song. The song basically repeats the same beat, and its rather consistent.  It sounds really boring if you're not fully listening to the song, but if you actually just sit down and listen to the song, you'll find that there's some different stuff to shake things up.  The song is okay.

2.  Captain Hook :: It is this point in the album that most realized that this band aims at a very young fan base. This was the very first song of Ch!pz that I've heard. I almost didn't care for it and left the idea of looking into the band, but I was drawn to the whole pop scene that was reminiscent of what I listened to as a child and the beat is really catchy. I found the whole middle part with vocals with the "kids" and "captain hook" a bit cheesy, but this whole album is full of cheese.  It isn't enough to make me hate the song or the band however.

3. Bang Bang :: You also start to notice that the drum beat is almost the same for every song.  This happens in a lot of the songs in the album and it is the main reason why the songs seem to sound the same in the album.  Once again, this is just me being picky again and it doesn't make the album bad.  I rather like this song since its mainly the girls singing and I personally think they sing better than the boys in their group.  The song is simplistic though, almost to the point of boring, however.  Its yet just another okay song.

4. Ch!pz in Black (Who Are You Gonna Call?) :: Once again, the song starts a bit cheesy. The beginning establishes that Ch!pz is some fantastical group that handles situations like UFO sightings somewhere.  I suppose that this can still appeal to a younger audience that Ch!pz targets.  I do have to admit that the chorus is catchy, but once again, there is that same beat! If you listen to this song separately from the rest of the album and take in consideration that this music aims at a children audience, it's actually a pretty decent song. 

5. Say I'm Ur No. 1 :: The style of this song is so similar to A*teens that one could probably mistake Ch!pz from them.  The beat is a bit different so people are obviously going to pay closer attention to this song when it pops up.  The melody is very simplistic and carefree.  Once again, this band is totally pop.  I suppose it could be considered dance with a few of the songs.  Whoever says so otherwise must be stooooopid!  Its really nice to listen to.

6. Milky Way :: This song is really different.  There are synths and beats that make the song definitely have a electronica feel.   I'm sure it's so make the song have a futuristic feel since its about exploring in space and stuff like that. It's still considered a pop song in my head because their voices make it that way.  I'm sure they could put their singing voices to heavy metal and they'll still make it a pop song, no dice. The song is really catchy and I think its one of the best of the album.  It wasn't as popular as a few of their other songs and I don't understand why.

7. Haunted House :: Some guy with a bit of a creepy voice narrates something out of a generic horror flick.  It actually reminds me a bit of those cheesy haunted houses in the Scooby-Doo episodes.  The synths make things a bit towards the dance side.  The beat is once again in the same funk they were before, but since the melody and the mood is so different, it doesn't make the song extremely boring.  The lyrics can be a bit towards childish but I can't criticize them for that; doing that would be like criticizing an apple for being a fruit.  I personally don't like it that much, but musically, it can be pleasing to the ear, so I should just say its a decent song.

8. 4 Who U R :: I rather like this song and its not just because it isn't as cheesy or it sounds a bit different like the rest of the songs.  Melodically, it changes a bit, which automatically just keeps me listening.  Sure it can sound like just another pop song, but this song shows the listener that Ch!pz isn't just a one-theme or one-tune group and vary some of their work to shake things up a bit.  I think its a good quality for an artist of a group to have because those who don't do that tend to be pretty bad or mediocre at best. The lyrics can stick in your head and watch out, you may be singing this song out-loud.

9. The Happy Hook :: Every album has one, more so than others.  This is the "WTF" song of the album.  In this case, this earns that title because the lyrics and the synth is pretty different from the rest of the album and, I don't know about you, but I kept on thinking "what the hell is a happy hook?"  I rather like the background music in this because its a very upbeat dance beat.  Its actually extremely similar to the Vengaboy's "We Like to Party" track.  There really isn't a subject to this song and since its the WTF song, I have an excuse to why I can't really come up with a solid opinion of this song. 

10. Jungle Beat :: This song sounds a bit like the "generic" ones in this album.  Its slightly different since there are animal noises, steel drums, and some other instruments that makes the generic "tropical" feeling.  There is some random voices like that random deep voice that makes me think of the guy in Aqua.  I was thinking "oh who's that?" but that wasn't enough for me to distract me from the entire song.  Once again, this song isn't some great song, but its nice to listen to.  I could see someone playing this by a pool side or something since it creates such a tropical mood.

11. Slay Slay :: I realized here that every song practically has a "theme" to it that could appeal to the younger audiences.  I somewhat realized that song but I decided to fully state it here.  In this case, its about those fantasy stories of a warrior slaying an evil creature.  In the other songs, there were stuff like haunted houses, pirates, the police, and cowboys.  Once again, this makes the song a bit cheesy to adults and almost adults like me (haha, I'm only 17 for the record).  Considering this and the overall musicality, it can be great for some people, but for me, this song is mediocre at best.

12. The Timeriders :: The song actually makes for a decent ending.  The tempo is a bit slower, and at the beginning, the song goes at a "grand finale" feel to it.  Sure the song swings a bit to the same beat as the previous songs and the techno synths that was featured in Milky Way, but the song has a bit of a conclusive feeling to things. 

Conclusion: This album will definitely appeal to younger audience and I could freely suggest this to children since there isn't curing, drug references, and the like. I don't recommend this to people who don't like pop music or feel a bit queezy with childish or cheesy things.  Musically, the album could be a bit boring if you listen to all the songs all at once since they all sound somewhat similar.  The songs could go from decent to great if listened to individually. 

To be honest there isn't much to say about this song.

I found out that the artist was just another average joe DJ that posted video game soundtrack remixes on his Soundclick account.  I'd like to link the site but It doesn't seem to exist anymore.

This particular song is a remix from that one Star Fox game for the Game Cube.  I can't recall the name of it but I remember watching my older sister play the game and found this track soon after it. 

The review is going to be brief since I don't have much to say. Its only nice to listen to only if you are doing something else, like working on something or reading.  The main purpose was to be background music and even in this remix, it remains to be just the same chilling beat repeated over, and over, and over again.  I don't mind it really, but since it defeats the purpose of a song, I'll give it a 3/10.