Following the mini-meltdown that Calvin Harris let loose on his Twitter account last week – in which he raged at an unnamed review of his new album, Ready For The Weekend, calling the negative reviewer a “snide rich persons [sic] kid” and a whole lot more – the UK singer and producer has refused to back down, continuing his angry outburst at the negative feedback he’s been receiving this time on BBC News.
Speaking out to the British news outlet, Harris vented his disappointment at the album’s poor feedback saying “It’s like masochism, or something. I want to see what they think, because they’re employed to review records. And stupidly, I think that people who are employed to review records should be impartial, and should listen to the record in a balanced way,” he said.
“Ready For The Weekend is not a two-star album,” Harris argued. “It’s just not. And I’m not saying that because I made it. There are a huge volume of reviews that aren’t even based on the music. They barely say anything about the record.”
Whilst Harris didn’t explicitly point out which review of Ready For The Weekend had so sparked his ire, the word is out that it was the Guardian’s scathing assessment that, among other less than stellar observations, labeled the disc as the dredged up corpse of glossy handbag house.
Calvin Harris on the other hand refuted the Guardian’s venomous indictment of his album, saying instead that he felt Ready For The Weekend was the “best thing I’ve done in my life” and a “a great achievement, personally”.
Meanwhile, Harris isn’t the only electro-popper suffering a critical tongue-lashing, as oddball electro performer Frankmusik had his debut album savaged by the NME just now. With lines like “it’s a black hole sucking all of pop’s best inventions into a dark void” we’re waiting for Frankmusik’s Bebo outburst any minute now…
Calvin Harris’ Ready For The Weekend is out now, so you can see what all the fuss is about for yourself. In the meantime, for those who missed it, Harris’ glorious human synthesizer!







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