oh sweet child…
13 years in the making guns n roses finally released the long awaited, one of the most expensive albums of all time, called chinese democracy. the reviews are mixed.
- rolling stone gives it 4 out of 5 stars and it says “the first guns n’ roses album of new, original songs since the first bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record.”
- newsday says guns n’ roses’ new album…took axl rose and dozens of musicians and producers an estimated $11 million and 13 years to complete. it wasn’t worth it.
- the washington post said that the album “isn’t a masterpiece — it’s more curious than actually great — but it’s never dull, encompassing everything from classic rock to prog rock to actual rock, with nods to “phantom of the opera,” hip-hop, industrial, putumayo’s world-music compilations and countless other things that should never, ever go together”.
- the new york times said the album is the “titanic of rock albums: the ship, not the movie.”
the chinese government is definitely not happy with the release — something i find interesting, given how much they love a highly produced product. according to reports, the album’s website chinesedemocracy.com can’t be accessed from inside china and internet portal baidu.com blocked music-related searches for chinese democracy. when asked about the block, china’s spokesperson for the ministry of culture said they’d never heard of the album and that the banning was simply a rumor. china’s main tabloid the global times was much more definitive about the album, it said the album is “venomously attacking china…and described the record as part of a larger western conspiracy to ‘grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn.’ surprisingly, they declined to comment on axl’s bad weave.
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