Review
Lil Mama considers herself a spokeswoman for the youth—if that’s not clear from the title of her album, she has also supported the claim by showing up to the VMAs with a pacifier in her mouth and by setting the video for “Lip Gloss” in a high school (and a magical high school, too, where spoons dance). The problem is, for as much as the 18-year-old MC and singer wants to represent her generation, she spends most of Voice of the Young People angrily talking about herself. Though there’s slick, occasionally dynamite production from the likes of the Runners and Scott Storch, the lyrics rarely rise above defensive boasting (“One Hit Wonder”), frigid sex raps (“What It Is [Strike a Pose]”) and rote autobiography (“College”). And what does that say for, or even about, young people?Download “Lip Gloss”
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