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It's catchy, with Ice throwing some clever horror movie metaphors about his rhyming skills ("Some call him Psycho, the Norman Bates of Hip Hop / Ladies call him Alfred 'cause they're all over his Hitchcock"). Loosely based on "This Is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas, this is Halloween party music. Ice's love of the darker side of the lyrical spectrum turns up on a couple of tracks here, "Nightmare Disco", which is an electro track with lyrics about sex and murder, and the semi-autobiographical "Born on Halloween" (which Ice was - October 31st is his real birthday). Kicking off the album is the electro-based "Turn It Up", which is very danceable, and banging.
There's also a strong electro influence running throughout the material. This release is thoroughly modern, and strongly grounded in the stylings of the modern underground rap scene in its hip hop tracks. The contrast between that album and this release is astounding. The visual metaphor on the album cover, of Vanilla Ice stepping through a burning poster of the cover to his debut album To The Extreme, is perfect. It was supposed to come out in 2009, then in 2010, and now turns up in 2011 on some label I've never heard of (Radium Records). I've actually been waiting for this latest V-Ice release for quite a while. If you're a musician, isn't that what you try to do? If you're not, what exactly is your deal with the guy, anyway? Do you really need to spend your life predominately focused on something that you don't care for? As far as I am concerned, the guy whose mother named him Rob Van Winkle is and always has been, a guy trying to have fun and make music.
(The title of this album actually stands for "Wisdom, Tenacity and Focus", but regardless.) People seem really desperate for Vanilla Ice to go away, for reasons I cannot fathomed. I'd like to start my review out by getting the smartassery out of the way: Yes, "WTF" is the typical reaction to most people when they hear that Vanilla Ice is releasing a new album.
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