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Devo 2.0

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I came across a site for a group doing covers of Devo songs.

That by itself only rate a 5 or so on the weirdness scale. The weird thing is that

a) It's a kids group, of undisclosed age, though they look like 12 year olds to me.

and

2) It's backed by Walt Disney Records.

I listened to a couple of their on-line videos. I tried watching them, but it's pretty painful - their actions on the video bear only a modest relationship to what's happening in the audio track, though I suspect that there are some sync problems between the two as well. The musicianship is adequate - it's not like the typical Devo song requires mad skillz - but the mix is the typical kid-pop over-smooth mix, without any real edge to it, which kindof misses the point of the music. And I came across at least one gratuitious lyric substitution in "girl u want".

On the other hand, I'm mindfull of what Wayne's World did for Queen's music, and hoping that this will "expand the horizons" of some newer music listeners. So, I don't know what to think. It could be a lot worse.

[Pre-updated: on looking at the official Devo site, I came across this:

DEV2.0 is a strange, Corporate-Feudal experiment that attempts to bring the original DEVO music sensibility to children in the 5 to 8 year old demographic range.
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Here's the site. So, what do you think?

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  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2006
    Evil. Evil. Evil.

    They are not men. They are Dev2.0.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2006
    I agree with dweller. Just made me shudder listening them change the words to "Uncontrollable Urge" to a song about snack foods.

    yag

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    January 28, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2006
    A lot of people have been dissing this project, but I think that they are missing the point. If it was any other band but DEVO it would be bad, but this is just proof of De-evolution and all that the original band stood for. I think this is one of the most briliant things to happen in music in years.

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    It is brilliant.  I never would have thought of merging De-evolution with Disney, but it works.  WE ARE ALL DEVO!  De-evolution is complete.  All hail the tweens.

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    February 19, 2006
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    February 19, 2006
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    February 24, 2006
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