This week, I listened to Blood on the Dance Floor’s latest release, entitled “Bad Blood.” There are so many things wrong with this album that I don’t even know where to start.

I’ll start with the bad. The music is uncreative, repetitive and uninspired. The autotune is almost unbearably heavy. The lyrics are the kind that the angstiest middle schooler in all of the Western Slope could write. In other words, these lyrics are the exact opposite of poetic brilliance. They are ridden with cliches and unnecessary vulgarity. I just cannot handle how edgy this band is.

However, Blood on the Dance Floor has done something nobody with their success has done before. They have revolutionized songwriting. Instead of following traditional song structure, they have cut out the unique verses and the bridge and replaced them with a single verse and a single chorus that repeats for four minutes.

There is one good song on the album. “Always & Forever” is a sweet love ballad that brings the listener back to their first love. Isn’t that nice? After the duo scream that they want me to eat feces and that I’m the bitch of the century, they serenade me about how much they love me. Two words for you cats: dating abuse.

This is easily the worst thing I’ve ever had the displeasure to vibrate against my eardrums. Aside from that, I’d like to touch on one truly critical problem with this album: some of the lyrics glorify self­-harm and dating abuse. “Damaged” is about a relationship in which the singer cuts himself with “deadly intentions” in order to “get what he wants” after the relationship is over. As a band that has primarily young “alternative” kids as their audience, it is unacceptable for BotDF to write lyrics about being an abuser.

In short, this album is one of poorly­ constructed music, maliciously influential lyrics and constant musical and lyrical cliches. For this, I award “Bad Blood” a single star, only making it past half because of the one decent track.

sgexner@mavs.coloradomesa.edu