Dev’s debut LP The Night The Sun Came Up is following up her breakout hit single In The Dark with the Enrique Iglesias collaboration Naked where they Strip.
Dev’s debut LPThe Night The Sun Came UpYou may not have heard of Devin Star Tailes, but you’ve no doubt heard her voice. The hook for Far East Movement’s 2010 hit “Like a G6” was taken from Dev’s “Booty Bounce,” which is justification enough to hate her. But there are plenty of reasons to like her too, not least of which is her JJ Fad-grade flow and the fact that she knows all the lyrics to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.” The trouble is that the 22-year-old California singer’s debut, The Night the Sun Came Up, fails to back up her claim that she’s more than just a Ke$ha clone.
Even if the album’s opening track, “Getaway,” doesn’t exactly succeed as the multi-genre pastiche it aims for, starting as a midtempo piano ballad before morphing into a hip-hop-styled coronation, it displays the breadth of Dev’s abilities – or at least her musical taste – and even counters Ke$ha’s famous lyric about brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels with a slightly more profound use for a bottle of booze. But the song’s final admission that Dev’s “got a secret,” not to mention her invitation to listeners to discover what it is, is immediately followed with the vacuous declaration that it’s “In My Trunk,” a sub-Black Eyed Peas club banger that should come as no surprise considering the group is shouted out on the album’s first single, “Bass Down Low. “
