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3 out of 10
Seeing the name Papa Roach back in print, you'd expect it to be a case of them following in Limp Bizkit's footsteps of announcing a reunion. If you're expecting a Nu-Metal renaissance you'll be disappointed. It seems that not only have Papa Roach always been here, as their moniker would suggest, they've also left their musical roots for dead.
At some point in the last couple of years, Papa Roach put down their copy of Faith No More's Epic, grew out their hair and started wearing eyeliner. Musically, their new single 'Hollywood Whore' continues in this fashion, sounding like a third rate Avenged Sevenfold, complete with pedestrian guitar riffs and uninspiring rhythms. As you could probably guess from the title, Hollywood Whore deals with the complex nature of show business and its treatment of naïve young actors and actresses, and the depths to which people will plum for their fifteen minutes of fame, all of it wrapped up in a dull, lifeless rhyming scheme, with the overall subtlety of a fart in a crowded lift. From the opening couplet of "Cocaine nose and trendy clothes/Got to send her to rehab" the whole thing sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect from your Nirvana obsessed 16 year old little brother. Given that the song structure is identical to that of 'Last Resort,' their biggest single to date and one that is almost 10 years old, it's obvious that progress and innovation are not Papa Roach's strong points, but dull, irrelevant rock is.
Listen: www.myspace.com/paparoach
Tracklist:
1. Hollywood Whore
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