{"id":49135,"date":"2015-04-29T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=49135"},"modified":"2015-04-29T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:32:28","slug":"go-betty-go-reboot-ep-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2015\/go-betty-go-reboot-ep-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Betty Go | Reboot<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Derric Miller<\/span>
\n– Managing Editor —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"betty\"Just the band name, Go Betty Go, sounds like this is going to be a fun trip, right? Once the music starts, and you hear this all-female band pour out a joyous, polished brand of commercial Punk, and the smooth, effortless vocals of Nicolette Vilar almost croons at you \u2026 it all sounds like a happy, swell time. <\/p>\n

Until you read the lyrics on Reboot<\/em>. This is some introspectively grim stuff, kids \u2026 <\/p>\n

\u201cBy Your Side\u201d is the opener, and by the title, maybe it\u2019s a love song? Wrong again. Try on these lyrics: \u201cI won\u2019t be trapped in your noose. Your death sentence, not mine. I\u2019m breaking free; you\u2019re out of time.\u201d<\/em> This upbeat ditty is about breaking up with your significant other, packing your bags and leaving without even saying goodbye. It\u2019s a bouncy composition, then crescendos at the end with Nicolette starting to rage, a counter to her earlier silky vocals. <\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more! <\/p>\n

\u201cDrown\u201d is up next, and the bass is a punchy, pummeling thrum-fest. This song has an almost vintage appeal to it, like \u201870s Hard Rock, except the leads are too happy and don\u2019t remind you of being a wasted hippy. Again, it\u2019s about a godawful relationship. \u201cI dress in color, you\u2019re in tasty grays in summer like a statue looking over a dirty pond.\u201d<\/em> OK, someone has been in a series of smothering and destructive relationships. <\/p>\n

The no nonsense approach continues on \u201cIt Haunts You Now.\u201d The dichotomy between the sonic portrait and the lyrics continues on this slower (for them) composition. Hearing this live must be a thrill because the music just makes you want to bounce around like you have no cares in the world. Lyrically, though, the song paints a picture of a soulless, vapid caricature who fakes their entire walk through life. <\/p>\n

There is a Spanish track, \u201cTartamundo\u201d which means \u201cStutter\u201d in English. It\u2019s got a lot of sing-a-longable \u201cwhoa ohs!\u201d in it so even if you don\u2019t know Spanish, it\u2019s catchy as hell. <\/p>\n

\u201cCemetery Stone\u201d is a horror movie in song format. \u201cThey won\u2019t miss those girls from Mexico,\u201d is all you need to know about the context, unless you want to throw in \u201cHer final moments there recorded in a loop making sure we remember what had taken her too soon.\u201d Just look at the back cover of the EP\u2014you see four smiling, makeup wearing women grinning at you with their arms around each other. They don\u2019t look like they can write with the darkness of a Metal Church anthem, but they surely can. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhere I Sleep\u201d is the final song on the six-song EP. Thematically, it all starts making sense, since this song is about \u201crebooting\u201d your life, starting over, getting rid of your past mistakes even though it\u2019s likely marriage when you hear \u201cA choice made very young buried me to a heavy sum.\u201d The pacing of the vocals during the verses is somewhat gracefully frantic; someone is in a hurry to get the hell outta Dodge. <\/p>\n

Go Betty Go may look like a good time band, who sing syrupy Pop Punk, but you have to dig a little deeper to get the entire story. And that story is they are storytellers of some fairly dark real-life nightmares. Isolation, loss, depression, death, soul-sapping relationships \u2026 it\u2019s all in there. At the end, maybe there is a Phoenix rising from the ashes moment, though. Overall, you don\u2019t have to overthink to like the band, but it\u2019ll help you understand the music to a far greater level if you do. <\/p>\n

Genre: Punk, Hard Rock<\/p>\n

Band:
\nMichelle Rangel\u2014bass
\nBetty Cisneros\u2014guitar
\nNicolette Vilar\u2014lead vocals
\nAixa Vilar\u2014drums <\/p>\n

Track listing:
\n1.\tBy Your Side
\n2.\tDrown
\n3.\tIt Haunts You Now
\n4.\tTartamundo
\n5.\tCemetery Stone
\n6.\tWhere I Sleep<\/p>\n

Label: Independent <\/p>\n

Hardrock Haven rating: 7.5\/10 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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