Album Review: The Devil Wears Prada - 'Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord'

22 July 2007 | 9:43 pm | Staff Writer
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Oh good, more watered down Christian metalcore…

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The Devil Wears Prada is a great

movie. Featuring stand out performances from Meryl Streep as the cold

hearted ice queen and Anne Hathaway as the token eye candy, this is

a film that really does have something for everyone. 

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Unfortunately the same can’t

be said for the musical version of The Devil Wears Prada, because this

record is some of the most uninspired and generic metal/hardcore that

I have across in a long time.  


Let’s take it from the top –

The Devil Wears Prada is a terrible band name. The artwork suggested

that I’d be listening to be some kind of black metal band, what with

the threatening storm clouds and statue adorning the front cover. However,

the music is about as cookie cutter as you can get.  


Triggered kick drums? Check. Open

D chords a plenty? Check. Token nasal clean singing parts? Check. Did

I mention the attempts at guitar leads are so cheesy I feel like I’m

in the dairy section my local supermarket?! 


Do you see what I’m getting

at? There’s nothing on this CD that is any worse than 3948579435 bands

that have put records out in the last 2 years, but there’s something

so contrived about TDWP that it makes them more unbearable than “insert

cliché name”. Metal is supposed to be gritty. There’s supposed

to be something ominous about it, but “Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord”

is so sterile that my mum would probably enjoy this record. 


I’m sure each member of the

band is a capable musician in his own right – and their pianist (that’s

right, pianist) shows us more than one occasion that he can play –

but not one of the 11 songs on this record holds a candle to their peers

in Drop Dead, Gorgeous or Norma Jean.


After checking the band’s MySpace

page and seeing that they’ve had 3 million hits I’m incredibly disheartened

with the state of heavy music in the year 2007 because this means that

there are thousands of kids out there who think TDWP embody the term

heavy metal! The band has a new record coming out late August and I

can only hope that it’s an improvement on “Dear Love: A Beautiful

Discord”.

  1. The Ascent
  2. Gauntlet Of Solitude
  3. Dogs Can Grow Beards

    All Over

  4. The Sentence Trails

    Off

  5. Rosemary Had An Accident
  6. Redemption
  7. Swords, Dragons And

    Diet C