New comer Charice, brought to fame by the Philippine show 'Star King' launches her debut single 'Pyramid' this week, a comfortable but safe song featuring rapper Iyaz.
Harbouring a fairly average beat throughout the track, things get off to a slow start. Charice's vocals are fairly gentle as she croons about the consistently generic ideas of love standing the test of time etc etc, and it would seem that she is far more able to hit the lower notes of the song perfectly, whilst as we move up the scale it feels a little screechy.
Iyaz's contribution shows that he really doesn't have much versatility, his sample could literally be cut from any other of his own tracks and nobody would know any different. Furthermore, although it is almost definitely through no fault of his own, his lyrics are essentially corny and make this track seem as though it is almost exclusively aimed at the young teen market.
Once Charice and Iyaz's vocals are combined, they create quite a nice blend and I find the effect to be chilled, perhaps something you would hear as background music. However, the very basis of the track itself, the idea of their love resembling a pyramid, only goes so far before it becomes almost painfully tedious. It would seem that the lyricist has attempted to be original by creating this story but has tried too hard and the end result is laborious and somewhat vapid.
Charice goes all out in the finale of the track, really displaying her vocal range and showing real effort, which marginally saves this song and is what is likely to have landed her a role in hit TV series 'Glee.' Charice deserves to do well, but either way, thanks her her new TV role even if this single bombs it isn't the last we've seen of the Philippine songstress.
7/10 - Just lacking Spice :-(
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