Tell me about some stuff

Just, please, tell me what you think. Tell me what sucks and what doesn't. (Taking into account, the target audience is readers of a second rate, low circulation Maritimes newspaper and I'm supposed to stay around 50 words.) I got paid a dollar each for them!

Field Mob – From Tha Roota to Tha Toota (MCA/Universal)
Bass-heavy Dirty South bounce + real emotional openness. Smart rhymes + a willingness to sink into the mud without the middle class anxiety (‘If we sing about guns and cars people will think poorly of us’) of OutKast. Sad + happy. Exuberant + fragile. Fearless + fresh.

White Stripes – Elephant (V2)
It’s hard not to root for the White Stripes. Despite the somewhat unpleasant fetishization of Old World values, they’re a million times fresher than the dreary longhairs monopolizing rock radio. They’ve got pluck. They’ve got cool songs that all sound the same. They’ve got matching outfits!

50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Trying (Shady/Aftermath)
There is something distasteful about a man whose life was destroyed by poverty, who sold crack before he turned 16, watched his mother executed, and got shot nine times, selling a caricature of himself and his lifestyle to white, middle-class kids. 50 Cent gives us the same tour of the ghetto that countless superior rappers have given before him. For all of 50’s claims of authenticity, Get Rich or Die Trying is exploitative and hateful and succeeds only in parodying gangsta rap culture. Sadly, every single track is catchy as heck.

Avril Lavigne – Let Go (Arista)
This is the sort of album just waiting to be seized out of the zeitgeist by vigilant marketing professionals. Let Go is a perfect pop album for the year 2003, a balanced combination of commerce and teenaged rebellion, 15-year-old-girl-poetry and radio-ready pop hooks. The album of the year for too many reasons to count.

Do you have any kind of tips about writing these sorts of paragraph things? I like Robert Christgau but I don't have the luxury of frequent incoherence.