07-04-2010, 16:46
My first impression - the first few seconds - was that Evelyn Evelyn made the soundtrack to some kind of 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' movie. After a while, though, it became some pretentious 'dark cabaret' vaudeville garbage. Don't get me wrong, I quite like that burlesque stuff but Evelyn Evelyn suck. Again and again, Amandas "singing" is plain annoying squealing (see 'Sandy Fishnets') and songs such as 'You Only Want Me 'Cause You Want My Sister' or 'My Space' are bog-standart mediocre folk and pop songs respectively.
I'm not against macabre jokes per se, but these stories are neither funny nor very enthralling or original. In fact, Evelyn Evelyn is one big joke about disabled people made by some self-congratulatory artsy fartsy 'artists' (not that this is art, but, w/e) jumping on the hipster ableism bandwagon that's selling oh so well these days.
I'm not against macabre jokes per se, but these stories are neither funny nor very enthralling or original. In fact, Evelyn Evelyn is one big joke about disabled people made by some self-congratulatory artsy fartsy 'artists' (not that this is art, but, w/e) jumping on the hipster ableism bandwagon that's selling oh so well these days.