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Saturday, November 10, 2007

The Comebackers



Has anyone else noticed this, that the year 2007 seems to have more Comebackers than usual.

Every year we have some singer or rapper even an actor/actress that has been lost to our memories try and make a comeback and kick start their dead careers, but through out this year I think there maybe a higher number of comebackers than usual.

Let us try and name some of these comebackers and see how many We get.


Ja Rule: Whose last album was in 2005 and I think I am not alone in thinking that he would never make a come back to music, after the damage to his rap reputation at the hands of 50 Cents, but lo and behold Jeffery Atkins has a new single called Body for his upcoming album The Mirror (Its safe to say I will never check that shit out)

Redman aka Reggie Noble aka Funk Doc : About 5 or 6 years after his last album, Redman release his sixth solo album Red Gone Wild and it was well recieved by the fans because it encompassed all the elements that made us fans in the first place but yet still managing to update his sound to fit in with the modern times.
Spice Girls: This out of all the comebackers seem to be the most desperate, with the only sucessful solo career belonging to Geri Halliwell (and damnit that woman can sing). The new single though I dont see doing too well, unless they've paid some radio djs who would then shut off their common sense and feel the need to play the songs 5 times in every 30 minutes and thus implanting it everyones head and making most of us being addicted to it regardless of whether we hate it or not, but even I (as a renowned skeptic) dont think thats gonna happen with this single.

Dave Chappelle: I don't want to go into the whole discussion of Dave Chappelle missing and but would just like to point out that he made his comeback to stand up comedy on the 15th of April of 2007 in the laugh factory, where he performed for 6 hours (and I can't wait to watch that)
Jeru the Damaja: Jeru released his latest album Still Rising October 2007, after missing for about 4 years .
Jay Z: After telling all of us he quit rap but still appearing as a feature on various songs, it came as no surprise that Mr Shawn Carter finally dropped an album. The title of the aforementioned album is American Gangster inspired and named after the upcoming film of the same title.


David Slade : Director of Hard Candy(2005), which did moderatley well, made his come back to the film industry with the comic book adaptation with the same title; 30 Days Of Night.


Michael Jackson: Yes even they King of Pop is a comebacker for 2007. I have heard a new single but not sure yet if it is official but his name has been popping up so much that I felt the need to include him in this list.


Wu Tang: Even though I am not overly excited (which is what I thought I would be) about the upcoming album, I am glad that at least some material is coming out from the Wu Tang Clan, it is just a shame that all the singles released thus far are all average and somewhat boring even.

Craig David, Celine Dion & Boys 2 Men also some people making comebacks for 2007.
I am sure that I am missing a lot of names and would appreciate it if people could add some more Comebackers for 2007 or at least tell me if they think that the number of Comebackers is not that high or maybe even very small compared to other years. Thanks For reading and please post your thoughts.





4 Comments:

Blogger Jeremy said...

Only 2 or 3 of these are genuine comebacks, the rest are just usual absences due to the length of the creative process and whatnot. David Slade, for example, made his first movie in 2004, how is making his second movie 3 years later a comeback? Barring an announcement of retirement, that's a fairly typical interval. And, considering we have very little to go by, that could be a short period of time for his particular work ethic.

"Comeback" is also relative. Terrence Malick has only made 4 movies in 30+ years, but a new movie wouldn't be considered a comeback since he's notoriously improlific.

"Jay Z: After telling all of us he quit rap but still appearing as a feature on various songs, it came as no surprise that Mr Shawn Carter finally dropped an album. The title of the aforementioned album is American Gangster"

You must have missed "Kingdom Come"?

12 November, 2007  
Blogger Femi said...

Point taken about David Slade and I do admit that I was reaching when I dropped his name.

Also I was wrong for putting Jay Z's name on the list. I never paid the guy much attention, and didnt know about Kingdom Come until you mentioned it. I probably wouldnt even know much about the upcoming album if it didnt have anything to do with the American Gangster film.

Excluding those two plus Michael Jackson, there is at least 5 or 6 genuine Comebacks on the list so how come you said 2 or 3.

14 November, 2007  
Blogger Jeremy said...

Jay-Z's "Kingdom Come" could be considered a comeback, you're just an album late.

I'll go 4 tops, with 1 or 2 maybes.

15 November, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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15 November, 2008  

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