Sounds fabulous! In reality, though, Karmin’s approach in “Acapella” feels like pure condescension, music-school satire unburdened by a sense of amusement or affection. The concept, according to a statement from the band, is “an homage to the ‘90s videos we grew up with and are still inspired by today,” and judging by the fisheye photography and the boldly colored wardrobe, that means classics of the era such as Britney Spears’ ” (You Drive Me) Crazy,” Missy Elliott’s “ The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” and “ Mo Money Mo Problems” by the Notorious B.I.G.

Released last month, “Acapella” is bad, no doubt about it: lame melody, lame beat, lame rapping by Heidemann, who shamelessly copies herself copying Brown’s staccato flow from “Look at Me Now.” (Sample line: “Out on a first date, he took me gourmet / We hit that Olive Garden, my Little Italy.”)īut the song - about how Heidemann discovered her man’s true nature and as a result is now happily flying solo (i.e., without accompaniment) - goes from terrible to unbearable in a new music video Karmin posted on YouTube on Saturday. In fact, the opposite appears to have happened. The record didn’t sell well - it received pretty uniformly horrible reviews, too - but Heidemann and Noonan seemed like such troupers that you figured they’d go back to the well and figure out what went wrong after their graduation from the Internet. “Hello” is kind of fun, with plenty of hooks and an effervescent rhythmic touch seemingly inherited from only the bubbliest of 1990s pop-rock hits “ Brokenhearted,” for instance, stakes out a sweet spot between Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” and “Someday” by Sugar Ray.

Mo money mo problems acapella