We Started Nothing

Product Details

Artist : Ting Tings
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0886972892528
Label : Sony Music Canada Inc.
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-06-03
UPC : 886972892528

ASIN : B0018OAPI4

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Great DJ
2. That's Not My Name
3. Fruit Machine
4. Traffic Light
5. Shut Up And Let Me Go
6. Keep Your Head
7. We Walk
8. Be The One
9. Impacilla Carpisung
10. We Started Nothing

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Customer Reviews

A guilty pleasure Ting (2008-10-04)

This is a fun, funky and successful debut from the hot UK group with the onomatopoeic name. All the songs are original material, written and composed by the fresh and fabulous duo, and it's a great pity that the album is so short. Turn on the radio at any time of the day, and before long you're probably going to hear either of the two really big singles from this album, or both of them. The single "Shut Up and Let Me Go" recently won the MTV Video Music Award for "Best UK Video", the other hot single being "That's Not My Name". "Great DJ" is yet another single, with "Be the One" scheduled for release soon. I recently received some PepsiStuff Points to buy an MP3 download from Amazon, and I had no hesitation in picking "Shut Up and Let Me Go" Most of the tracks are cool, catchy and current, and although you can't honestly say that the lyrics are either deep or profound, you'll remember the infectious beats and at least you'll be able to sing along while you're dancing. Fans of Brit pop will enjoy this album, but there are a couple of tracks that were just a little too trippy for my liking. Other than the singles mentioned above, you should also try "Keep Your Head" and "We Walk". Buy the singles, if not the album, and prepare to shake your groove Ting. Amanda Richards

Truth in advertising (2008-06-04)

Attention -- apparently the Ting Tings have been pronounced the Big New Thing Du Jour in the world of pop music, as they dropped their debut album and were featured on an iPod commercial.So are they worth it, listeners? Well, at least the title of "We Started Nothing" is forthright about what their album does -- it starts nothing, only produces a stream of catchy, simplistic pop with an indie-electronic flair. It's a fun little listen until after the first single, but then the easily-digestible dancey stuff ends up being galling after the first couple songs.It opens with a strummed guitar and series of synth pops, with Kate White announcing, "Fed up with your indigestion/Swallow words one by one... Nothing but the local DJ/Said he had some songs to play." But the song kind of goes downhill with the chorus, which basically is "Imagine all the girls... And the boys... And the strings... And the drums" followed by bad chimp imitations. Lots of "ee ee ee ee!" and "ah ah ah ah!"They turn out something a bit different in "That's Not My Name," a shimmying beat-heavy little tune that sounds like a teenage cheerleader trying to assert her individuality. "They call me quiet girl/But I'm a riot/Mary, Jo, Lisa/Always the same/That's not my name!/That's not my name!" If you have to tell someone you're a "riot," then you almost certainly aren't.After that, things start sliding down, especially since the Ting Tings seem to lose some of their hook-producing skill. They turn out blippy little pop tune, a somewhat awkward jazz-lite ballad, pianopop riddled with synth and jiggling drumsticks, and a string of mildly catchy guitarpop. By "Impacilla Carpisung," it's pretty clear that they've run out of inspiration, and the last couple songs are a flurry of halfhearted beats and droney, bouncy riffs.Unfortunately the nadir is the horrendously contrived thumpfest that is "Shut Up And Let Me Go," a breakup song that is just screaming to be covered by a MTV pop tart trying to prove her toughness and failing miserably -- "I ain't freakin'/I aint fakin' this/Shut up and let me go/Hey!"By a certain point in the album, I felt like screaming those very words.I'll be the first to admit it -- the Ting Tings are fun and catchy in a radio-friendly/MTV-potential way, with pop music that is heavy on hooks and light on musical complexity. The big problem with "We Started Nothing" is that despite a few interesting twists, it all more or less sounds the same -- they do the same kind of pop more or less from beginning to end, with only a couple exceptions like "That's Not My Name's" funky cheerleader vibe.They put some fairly polished instrumentation -- some nimble guitarpop with solid drums and riffs, and sprinkles of synth to brighten up the repetitive melodies. They also drop in a bit of piano, horns and what sounds like a squeaking violin at times, but this doesn't really product a sense of variety. Instead, they just melt into the repeating hooks and riffs, until it's almost hard to remember they were there.White has a nice feisty pop voice, and she can easily handled the softer moments ("When nothin' makes you feel good") as well as the gleeful snarls (see everything associated with "That's not my name!"). Unfortunately the lyrics she sings are often weirdly obtuse ("Your jeans were once so clean/I bet you changed your wardrobe since we met"), when they aren't awkward and kind of trite ("Winning streak that you had over me/Has turned into your broken tragedy")."We Started Nothing" starts as a poppy guilty pleasure, but the Ting Tings start running on empty before too long. Easily digestible, and even more easily forgotten.

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