{"id":2434,"date":"2014-11-10T12:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2014-11-11T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:02:35","slug":"music-review-motions-by-calvin-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/music-review-motions-by-calvin-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"“Motions” by Calvin Harris Offers Nothing New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Harris was born Adam Richard Wiles and is known most widely for his electro-house and electro pop beats in the music industry. Harris is classified as a DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer. He has been prevalent since 2006 after being discovered on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Harris immediately signed contracts with EMI publishing and Sony BMG. \u00a0From there, he released a few demos, including his popular remix of All Saints hit single “Rock Steady,” gaining him positive recognition. At only 23, Harris released his first album \u201cI Created Disco\u201d in June 2007. \u00a0His electro-house sound was born in this album, which debuted at number eight on the UK charts before making its\u00a0way onto the American charts. Top hits from that album include the 80s-inspired \u201cThe Girls\u201d and the rhythmic \u201cVegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s\u00a0third studio\u00a0album, “18 Months,” featured a much bigger sound as well as partnerships with other hot artists. Harris stole the airways with his hit singles \u201cWe Found Love\u201d featuring Rihanna and \u201cSweet Nothing\u201d featuring the sweet yet powerful vocals of Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch. \u00a0\u201cWe Found Love\u201d was featured on the top 100 charts for eight weeks straight and \u201cSweet Nothing\u201d was one of the album\u2019s most sought after and popular tracks. Unfortunately, his recent album, “Motions,” released on Nov. 4, 2014, doesn\u2019t seem to be\u00a0his\u00a0best work. Some of the standout tracks on the album include \u201cBlame\u201d featuring vocals from newcomer John Newman and the wildly popular summertime anthem, fittingly titled \u201cSummer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, while the album has some exciting new artists added to Harris’s track list, from big artists like Big Sean and Gwen Stefani, it seems that the album falls short in some areas. There doesn\u2019t seem to be a distinction between the\u00a0songs on this album; each track sounds like a variation of the others.\u00a0There are definitely fresher collaborations on this album; however, the melody organization could have been improved. \u00a0Most of the tracks on “Motions” feel similar, almost like we have heard them before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Harris was born Adam Richard Wiles and is known most widely for his electro-house and electro pop beats in the music industry. Harris is classified as a DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer. He has been prevalent since 2006 after being discovered on Facebook. Harris immediately signed contracts with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/calvin-harris-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4j5eQ-Dg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}