Good, John Jacques wanted not Me to call the section "I LIKE Not". But here, in perverse form polymorphe, I go a lot more far. If "The Cinderella Theory" is therefore the first one of our Indispensables, this is that it represents the disc of shit to revere by excellence, of a fascination to do cold in the back. Clinton with three delay subways was some does hyper some advances.
One speaks when even there of one of the giants of the black music, hers in this case absolutely unique, a surrealist and messy funk open to all the expérimentations and all the deliria. With "One Nation Under HAS Groove" this is the monumental and final disc, in 79.
Then it is only sporadic new. One is in the years 80. Bad pass. And then too much drugs. And doubtless tires it also. Living but everyone itself some screws.
In 89, Prince, then in comet end crimson, the sign on his label. And pays his debt. Allowing Clinton to go out at last a disc in decent conditions. This that means equally, to the era and since, inherent constraints to all consumption product: it is necessary to put himself to the page, seduce the young public.
Therefore that could have given an of these discs of old glories légendaires that compromise themselves in the gimmicks of the era, such a Clapton produces by Phil Collins. An of these horrible things but to the taste of the day. And there is a little of that: opportunities in the compositions, strings and other sleeve effects, the recourse to the frequent one to the rap. But at the same time, one rediscovers, to the detour of contorted and shifted refrains, the madness intrinsèque to the works clintoniennes. Well. Not a big disc but the honor is except and it is necessary well to live, on the whole.
But Clinton goes more far: the production is not mainstream. She wants herself high-tech. And, as always with the good George, déconnante. Tons of machines without soul destroy, kill, bloat and annihilated all the good sides of the disc, sealing it with rigidity in perfect kills the loves of the swing, in a small sound ténu and hails, empties, under a rhythmic pachydermique and nevertheless scrawny in monotonous métronome. Ca déconne so, finally, that the disc already sounds hollow and dated as early as his exit. Then today.... And that gives something incomparble: stretched Clinton to do Prince. Be the world upside down.
And this is the sly force of the disc: Clinton, in this end of the years 80, prefigures all this that will fall for us over, just as, on the whole, it had by the passed given birth the rap, the techno, the electro and I some pass to blows of evident published soniques all to alongside the seventies. And if the years 80 were bad, they had the merit of to exist. In 89, it is midnight and Cinderella returns to normalcy pumpkin. And the Prince there will not be able nothing: years 90 direction emptinesses, exsangues, from which nothing does not emanate and that travel to our current and so well named years 00....
For after this disc,? The Velvet Underground in first party of U2, the rap synonyme of cover, MC Solaar in modern Gainsbourg (Ophélie, poor mix improbable Birkin and Bardot), the rhythm'n'blues rhythm'n'blues rhythm'n'blues' transformed rhythm'n'blues in R&B for nothing of form, France champion of the soccer world (!?), the reality to the Tv (re-!?), Hendrix remasterisé (ah, ah) sounding as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the return of the progressive music,Are without nothing to do and especially not something d' "artistique", Ozzy in family all the days to the Tv, sold rébellion in bermudas and battery recentrée, Josiane Balasko that does good films (no there, I déconne), brief of the non-direction, non-direction, again non-direction. Imagine-t-one Elvis imitating Springsteen or the Beatles? Mick Jagger taking itself for Costello?
As early as the following disc, Clinton pushes again more the cork: surrounded by a lays off prestigious come guests to honor it and pay their tribut, with a rap more omnipresent than never, it goes to sampler its former discs! Less than charms nevertheless, the gap is by too evident and systematic.
Clinton imitates those even that imitated it. Curious back. This is finally that or do to dump his world to the as Zappa. This is also the come-back of Michael Jackson the last year and that itself in remembers? This is the White Stripes truly of Detroit in the absence of to be really destroy.
A last thing: at the time of the turn that suivit gone out of it this album, on scene,During 3 hours 30, Clinton and his troop will do a concert killing and inspired to Bobigny, summoning a furious funk and orgasmique, saving. Without playing no title of this disc. ...
This is not that I like not, John jacques. It is just that I like not them to screw oneself of our mouths. Cheer, George, you all had foreseen. And you had warned us. The theory of Cinderella, one is squarely inside; it is past midnight.

BEN KENNEDY