“My dad is rich,” is a song from Draco and the Malfoys’ first self-titled album. The band plays at libraries, book stores, YMCAs, and educational institutions across the United States and Canada. Half-brothers Brian Ross and Bradley Mehlenbacher formed the band in 2004 based on Harry Potter’s nemeses Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter book series. You will find this song in the magical bowels of Indie Rock in a subgenre called wizard rock started by Harry and the Potters in 2002.
The lyrics make you chuckle embarrassedly at best and have no real overall meaning over the course of the song. Just the title alone makes the listener feel bad for how Potter’s parents are dead (and not rich), which is no way to stir up a following. Mehlenbacher’s voice throughout the song is weak and off key, and just adds to the torture of listening to the pair’s lyrics. The chords used in the song are nothing special, but guitar muscles are flexed in some parts of the song. The Mickey Mouse rhyming scheme and the flat wizard puns only make the listener want to make their ears disappear, along with the music playing device they are listening to.
Overall, unless you wish you could fly a broom to school everyday, this album is not worth talking about. This type of rock is aimed towards a specific group of people, people new to the music world who haven’t heard of the greats, and are convinced that magic can do anything…except make music.
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Watch your commas and common words like "everyday"; they will trip you up and make your look foolish.
ReplyDeleteYour writing is clever but not sharp. Try this: when you finish an assignment go back and see if you can cut 10 percent of the words. That will hone things up a bit, methinks.
Org: 5
GUMS: 4
Effectiveness: 5
Word choice: 4
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