There is a new Guns'n'Roses single. Ok, it's a song the band was playing live twenty years ago, it has one verse repeated (and one pre-bridge or something used once) to totally attack someone, presumably Stephanie Seymour.
The song was written closer to the breakup with Stephanie than to the release of Chinese Democracy, it's safe to assume she's the screaming fucking banshee who doesn't even deserve to be in the gutters.
Dizzy little dreamer with your head down in the stars
Fucking little schemer, got yourself inside the art
Syphilitic priestess baby, I know who you are
Parasitic demon sucking acid through your heart
Remember, Chinese Democracy was all about Stephanie and Axl explaining to her son what had happened. Who else would have a pussy full of maggots? And you can understand why he never bothered to write a second or third verse in the last twenty years, what else is there to add?
I will admit that the live version does sound a little bit like the real Guns'n'fuckin'Roses so for all the justified criticism, at least there's something new. There's even... I can't believe I'm saying this... a video.
It's ridiculous enough to make you wonder if Axl really did have this planned all along and this is what he knew 2021 would deserve. It's just a close-up of a computer-generated Medusa with very little movement, just color changes, and no connection to even the timing of the song much less anything else. And this music is the actual recording which has nothing to do with Guns'n'Roses. Slash and Duff could say they had nothing to do with it and no one would disagree.
I've watched the video once before writing any of this, now I'm going to watch it again. The things I do for you people.
Nope, there's nothing. Oh, there's enough movement of the medusa figure to suggest that something might possibly start happening but that's it. The actual bridge is a few bars of soft music which has nothing to do with the rest of it and there's no clue what Axl is trying to sing. He obviously needed many edits for that vocal take which was then repeated three times.
There actually could be potential. It wouldn't be great but if they dropped most of the overdubbed guitars and if Axl sounded something like he used to, it would definitely be catchier.
With all the swear words, there's no way this will get played on radio or MTV so it can't be much of a hit. There'll be a lot of views on Youtube though. The swearing is probably why it wasn't on Chinese Democracy, Axl used few if any swear words on that album.
It's like the minimal amount of work to suggest that something might happen, the amount of overproduction just adding noise to would could be a decent-if-generic G'n'R tune, the video that's literally barely more than nothing. Random clips of concert attendees would at least have something but this... Absurd isn't even close to the right word.
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