My Machine

Princess Superstar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: K7
• ASIN: B0009JK1CY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,014 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Princess Superstar’s fifth album My Machine is a 25 track, nearly 80-minute concept album. Princess presents a vision of the future in order to critique the present and reinvents herself as a sassy and smart anti-hero. In a world where stars are manufactured and not born she questions where the relationship between art and commerce is headed and attacks the current "Extreme Makeover" culture that turns people into imitations of a nonexistent ideal by promising to make them better versions of themselves, a theme she explores in "Perfect," the first video from the album. At times crazy and hilarious, hideous and alluring, deranged and compelling, she has mapped out an alternate universe on which to provoke and entertain.

Recorded over the past three years in Costa Rica, London, New York, Brazil, New Jersey, Mexico, and Berlin, this is Princess’ most ambitious work to date. The album was executive produced by her and the legendary Arthur Baker and also features production work from Jacques Lu Cont, Junior Sanchez, Armand Van Helden, and Todd Terry. She takes her cut’n’paste aesthetic to a new level as she effortlessly switches from the straight up hip-hop of "Famous" to the power punk of "I Like It A Lot" to the sinister electro of "My Machine" to the moody rock of "Artery" and her signature comedic style on "Quitting Smoking Song."

This should come as no surprise from a woman who, while working on this album, found the time to be a coach on MTV’s hit show "Made,", join Mensa, tour the world with her 4 turntable act "DJs Are Not Rockstars", have a weekly radio show on London’s Kiss FM, and be profiled in everything from the New York Times’ Style Section to Crain’s Business Magazine! NYC’s rhyming juggernaut is back with a love letter to independence, guaranteed to make brains and dance floors more active than they’ve been in a long time.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let's eat at that all night diner tonight., September 15, 2005

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El Mario (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Machine (Audio CD)

Well her royal flyness is back with an ambitious new album. Real reviewers, y'know, the ones that get paid to tell you their opinions on albums and fail to cover up their snarkiness and holier-than-thou attitudes, would call this a concept album.
But I ain't gettin paid for this, so it's all outta love that I tell you to buy this album.
The concept is that far into the future we communicate telepathically and are no longer bombarded with advertising that tells us what to think or who to be, or who we should want to be. Sounds utopian, except that now everyone who is born is given an advertising slogan as a name per an agreement the government made with the advertising consortium. "Coke Is It" "Got Milk" etc.. If this happened to me, I at least hope it's for somthing cool like rat poison or edible panties. I bet the kids named after tampons get mentally picked on a lot.
Well this whole album pops back and forth from the future with skits to the actual songs on the album. They are presented as part of a report of our current time period. Ah, there's the concept.
All that aside, the music is dope. PS has always shown a lyrical command that is at the same time technically brilliant but funny and poignant.
Songs range from the bumpin trash talkin "Bad Girls N.Y.C.", the club hit "Coochie Coo", to quriky, but lyrically profound songs like "Quitting Smoking Song" and "Initially".
And at 25 tracks this thing is dense. There is a lot of work here to enjoy and try to process. A lot of the skits are pretty much mini songs.
The music encompasses everything from hip-hop, electro, rock, electronica...pretty much everything. This is a work that has been long in the making and the time and care to make every track count is shown.
I've really enjoyed this album so far, and look forward to keeping it in heavy rotation for many months to come.
Great, now I sound like a ponce music reviewer.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crude Rhymes for the Synth pop generation, October 28, 2005

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Aditya Goradia "modman" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Machine (Audio CD)

This album is more of an epic tale with 26 songs that move through an assortment of contemporary topics mostly dealing with pop consumerism and the commodification of the human. This being my first introduction to Princess Superstar i was amazed by her roots and where they have taken her since. My favorite track is "Coochie Coo" because in combines a melodic sense with fun rhymes that allude to our dirtier sides. Dirty is deffintely my thing, and there is a lot of that here. And i mean that in the sense that there is someone just saying the things that are on everyone's minds and applying it to themes and textures that bring them to life. Overall this is a great album and can offer different reads on every listen. Pick it up and offer up your comments as i would like to see what other fans have to say.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart white female futuristic rapper....and it works!!, October 21, 2005

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Fossy Boots "Fossy Boots" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Machine (Audio CD)

This is one of the most ambitious records I have listened to in my life...so many different layers, themes, and subtleties exist, making each listen through of the album a different experience.
Imagine the future, Princess Superstar has made clones of herself, trying to find any way she can of ridding the world of other pesky celebrities, making herself (and her clones) the only stars. The sexy bass line on "I'm So Outta Control" has her sassing it up while deciding how she and her 'duplicates' will conquer the world, "it must only be me, and ten thousand more me's!!"
Her humor shines through the most in "The Quitting Smoking Song", and she finds her projections most poignant in "My Machine" as she asks what would you be if a machine could make you into anything..even yourself, 'would you be would you manage or would you suffer, would you be a lover, be a fighter, or would you just be all right, could you just be alright..?'
"I Like It A Lot" and "Sex, Drugs & Drugs" are the more let yourself go, party with your friends tracks. The first single, "Perfect" is also something to bop along to while maintaining a sense of irony the Princess has down pat.
The tracks are danceable and fun, while being fresh yet witty, cool yet important. You may not know Princess Superstar as a household name yet, or maybe ever, but it will be very obvious once you give "My Machine" a listen, as she definitely lives up to her name.