A good album that gets more melodic and better as it progresses. Best Tracks: Hero, Life Music, Heat of the Moment, Outside In, Connections, All I Want

Trap House Mechi is another generic dime a dozen expressionless trap rapper who barely opens his mouth to rap. Snoop Dogg is the only bearable aspect of the first two tracks. 'The East Siders' is a standard instrumental by Rick Rock. 'Crank Me Up.' is T-Pain trying to give us a song to get us amped up. It's okay. And then Choc gives us an R&B slowjam from her 2020 album, '21' that is probably the best thing here. It doesn't sound like a lot of love went into the creation of this.

On the first listen, I was thinking that this was just generic bland pop/R&B, but after a second and third spin, I can't deny some of the catchy moments it possesses. 'Heartbeat' has a good hook. "Stacy" feels different than everything else here with somewhat of a dark tone. The female vocals singing "goodbye" make the final song. It's amazing how one little touch can improve a song so much. The album is not great by any means, and as it's almost entirely produced by J.R. Rotem I'd expect more (it sounds more like a 2007-2008 album), but there are some likeable songs. Best Tracks: Replay, So Big, OK, Heartbeat, Goodbye

I really need to read the synopsis of movies before I watch them. This is a generic comedy where a stereotypical boring guy is put in an unfamiliar environment with extroverts who are crude, don't think before they speak, drink, take drugs and are overtly sexual. We've seen all this before. Anne Heche's character is annoying and unfunny. John C. Reilly says a few decent things but a lot doesn't work. Very forgettable.

[SPOILERS]3.5/5? What are you people thinking? Style over substance. Everything in this movie feels so forced and contrived. Rick Moranis' character in particular. It feels like a parody of old gangster flicks, but it doesn't want to be treated as one. The lead sounds like he is trying to impersonate Stallone. When he knocked out his love interest (that she later makes a joke about...) I couldn't believe what I just witnessed. Was that his only option? He is also a wanker, so if he did get killed in the final fight with the villain I wouldn't have cared one bit. Walter Hill directed and wrote some great movies, but this isn't it. About 3/5th of the way through, it's fairly serious and then it has some ill-fitting jive type music as the main characters run from cops that adds to the disjointed tone. It tries to be cool and it doesn't pull it off.