SINGLE REVIEW: CULLEN THE GREAT “Bad Intent”
Photo credit: Dominic Wuan
“Bad Intent” opens up with a darker, more aggressive tone that crawls under your skin. Exploring an unusual side of songwriting, creating vivid visual images, Cullen The Great tapped into the untouchable with a hit or miss directness. In the eerie, thickening ambiance, a craving, haunting hook hits your eardrum with raw power.
Derived from his usual style, the song immediately dips into a different energy field with a freezing sense of truth and vulnerability. Turning the camera down the throat, the song has an exposing feel to its aesthetic.
Gullen The Great has a very particular way of words in which he played with rhymes and vowels that sparks creative effects and visual impressions. It penetrates and invades like the stem of roses, dangerous but entrancing with raw power.
“Oppressions of expressions; Only lead to more suppression; While progression of recession; Brings out all the true confessions; And impressions of possessions; Always lead to more discretion; While distressing on the message; Always lead to shitty sessions.”
Maddening yet lucid storytelling gets under your skin, intriguing you to witness the unraveling. Exploring with further expansion, the artist on the rise is not afraid to tap into territories that are often avoided or forbidden. Tracing his footsteps, the artist continues to challenge himself with creative forms.
Written by Katrina Yang
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