Miley Cyrus vs. Ozzy Osbourne

Shyon Lewis-Steck is here to compare the pop star Miley Cyrus with prince of darkness, Ozzy Osbourne. As Alex said in the previous post, I can't just say the music is bad, but I must anylize it to determine WHY it's bad and must use no opinions

Miley Cyrus:

Party in the USA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA

Okay this song starts with incredibly simple guitar playing the same riff over and over for the intro and verses. The drums for the entire song are extremely simple and repetative, they barely change for the entire song. Later during the Chorus, The guitar practicaly ceases, and is replaced by occasional electronicaly generated noises and a sort of static noise that has no sort of beat whatsoever. This is covered up by the vocals which are so obviously electronicaly altered it's scary. Even the electronicaly altered voice doesn't really manage to do good, as the vocals repeatedly sway from the lyrics. I will admit that the scaling of the vocals are also pretty good in how they manage to switch between octives quickly, but that is also surely covered up by the altering. The other thing about this song, is the vocals and guitar sound like about 3 other songs I've heard before. The Lyrics in the song are also incredibly random and have no real point to them. Sometimes it seems as if they couldn't come up with anything better, for example "Moving my hips like yeah" what the heck does "yeah" supposed do indicate? Just because it seems to go with the beat doesn't make it a good thing to use. As a songwriter, I can understand that. I'm also pretty sure Jay-Z and Brittany Spears payed her for the advertizing in this song.


Ozzy Osbourne:

Crazy Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VorC_GHQnSc

This song begins with Ozzy yelling ALL ABOAAAARD!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! which is surely to bring you to your senses if you're not paying attention. After that, it goes into a deep bass riff and a vibroslap. The guitar soon opens up as Randy Rhodes slides his fingeres up the neck of the guitar. The bass continues as an amazing guitar riff goes on, then changes once again into the fast paced lyrics of the chorus. Ozzy's unique voice begins with good harmony and lyrics about "Learning how to love, and forgetting how to hate" These lyrics seem to be strange with such a metal artist and with such awesome guitar, but it harmonizes perfectly. The Drums, Guitars and Bass go through about 4 changes in the entire song. Ozzy's voice though strange manages to capture the lyrics wonderfully and the voice can harmonize with no alteration at all with whatever the guitar or bass at the time is. Using Crazy Train and Mentality as metaphors for what the world is like, while still actually saying the meaning straight up fits together, and you can understand what he's trying to say.

Overall Winner, Ozzy Osbourne:

Miley Cyrus may be popular now, and people may think that she's the best ever, but the reality is that her voice isn't even real and the music that goes along with it doesn't require much skill at all. How can people say that such a new artist is the best ever, OZZY'S BEEN THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS SINCE 1979!!!!!!! And he's still got it. How can Miley really "relate" with the people? What bad things have happened to her in her life?? Ozzy got kicked out of Black Sabbath for substance abuse. Overall, Ozzy is the winner