Malcolm Mclaren Paris Sept HD

On Paris, Mclaren has nothing to hide behind the musicians fade into the background, since the record is essentially a love letter to Paris. And what a love letter McLaren s overwrought prose is filled with bad rhymes and awkward imagery, making him sound like a lecherous old man, and the music doesn t help to remove that picture. Instead, the heavily orchestrated cabaret jazz backdrops tend to accentuate the sleaziness of McLaren s words. And that s what makes the record perversely fascinating: every element is so poorly conceived and executed that the entire thing appears to be an intentional