Esthero - O G Bitch
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Artist: EstheroEdition: Music CD
Format: Single
CD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Original Version
- Smitty's Deep Guitar Remix
- Smitty & Gabriel D. Vine's Garage Party Remix
- Moody Ass Bitch Remix
- Speakeasy Mix
- The Orange Factory Mix
- Bill Hamel Club Mix
- I Love You (Non-Album Track)
Music reviews of O G Bitch
Music Review: She's the girl you just can't admit you adore...
Rating: 4 Stars
"I am the original bitch/I am the original whore/I am the girlyou just won't admit/you adore..."
Canadian singer Esthero started off with cool trip-hop, and graduated over the years to a new style: energetic funky dance and warm trip-hip-pop. And one of her new songs stands out on its own: "O.G. Bitch," a gloriously angry-grrl dance tune.
Don't expect a "you stole my boyfriend" revenge song. It's a multi-barbed description of a "grinning bitch" who is "just waiting for me to drown/so no one knows you stole my whole sound!" This is worse than stealing a boyfriend; this is stealing art, and that's something no artist of any stripe is just going to brush off.
Esthero doesn't pull her punches, and it's deliciously catty and unrestrained as she sings, "How kind of you to offer what you think/a woman should do or say/maybe if you weren't so self-righteous/you would not have such a problem getting laid!" Love that. She unflinchingly hits in all areas, and leaves you cheering for her barbed comments.
But the song alone is not quite enough: there are a bunch of remixes. The original is a trippy, funky little tune, while the mix that follows makes it even trippier and ripplier. "Moody Ass Bitch Remix" makes it trippier and more electronic, while "Smitty & Gabriel D. Vine's Garage Party Mix" ups the beats and gritty synth for some serious shimmying.
"Speakeasy Mix" is a live-sounding, jazzy mix, backed by drums and women urging her on. "The Orange Factory Mix" is the least appealing, stripping down most of the melody in favour of unexceptional technobeats, but the single bounces back with the swooningly dramatic "Bill Hamel Club Mix." Finally, Esthero tops it off with "I Love You," a sensuously breathy little pop song.
This is Esthero's "You're So Vain" (which gets a homage in the second stanza), only with more venom and pain. And like Carly Simon, Esthero isn't telling anyone who it's about -- rumour has pointed at both Fergie and Nelly Furtado, but according to Esthero, neither one is it. Something to ponder, and wonder who stole her sound.
Esthero gets points for dancey funkiness, and for having the guts to let rip lyrically about the musical thief. Whoever that person is, Esthero is still running circles around her.
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