Let's Talk #YouLoveYou

You Love You, is blowing up! Everyone can't stop talking about how amazing it really is!

"Rock music’s big on overbearing personalities that shine on stage but you’d keep at arm’s length in person. Axl Rose and Courtney Love spring to mind. We have no idea what Justin Tranter — the frontman for the Lady Gaga-approved NYC glam-band Semi Precious Weapons — is like when he’s shopping at Gristedes, but his persona is of a petulant, narcissistic 6-foot-tall bleach-blonde bisexual minx. In others words, he’s a f**king rock star and he proves it on SPW’s sophomore release You Love You (out 6/29). From the self-titled opener — where Tranter essays our favorite lyric of the year, "I can’t pay my rent, but I’m f**king gorgeous" — to the redundantly perfect closer "Look at Me," You Love You’s a 9-song, 33-minute hit-and-run that’ll leave you gasping for breath. If you find yourself saying, “Oh no, he didn’t!” while listening, chances are he did and that you love it anyway." - Source: Towleroad.com

    Semi Precious Weapons and Lady Gaga Having a Celebratory Drink In Honor of You Love You

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You Love You Hits the U.S.

You Love You is finally available in the U.S. 

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"A club sensation in their native N.Y.C., Semi Precious Weapons have steadily raised glitter-laden eyebrows since the band's garage rock-y 2008 independent debut, We Love You. They even nabbed a coveted opening spot on controversial pop diva Lady Gaga's 2010 Monster Ball tour. In truth, the pairing made sense, as Gaga actually opened for the band in 2006 before she was famous. Cut to 2010, and Semi Precious Weapons deliver their sophomore effort and major-label debut You Love You. Once again featuring the vocals of six-foot-tall, ambisexual frontman Justin Tranter, You Love You plays as an amped-up version of We Love You. In fact, the band included re-recorded versions of their anthems "Semi-Precious Weapons" and "Magnetic Baby," originally released on We Love You. The move makes sense in introducing the band to a wider audience and the slightly bigger/polished-fuzz of You Love You's production does nothing to detract from the original versions. Admittedly, a few tracks such as the plodding "Statues of Ourselves" and the slack "Rock and Roll Never Looked so Beautiful" often seem like a lot of flash and personality minus a great pop hook. Ultimately though, tracks like the Led Zeppelin-meets-T. Rex nugget "Put a Diamond in It" and the bratty AC/DC-inspired "I Could Die" are truly a*s-kicking rockers that balance Tranter's snotty, glittery camp with the band's legit, hard rock ballsiness. And while snot'n'roll is pretty much Semi Precious Weapons bread and butter, Tranter's epic latter album ballad "Leave Your Pretty to Me" is a bittersweet love letter to all the fan girls he's never been able to love before, but for whom the album's idol worship-invoking album title truly takes on a reflexive and yearning irony. He sings, "Girl, go ahead and drink, cuz I can only be so many things. But when you leave, please leave your pretty to me." If You Love You is any indication, Semi Precious Weapons have plenty of pretty, dirty rock & roll to go around." Source: iTunes

A Weapons Review of #YouLoveYou

Check out this In Depth Review of You Love You by Semi Precious Weapons:

"Unless you have been living under a rock, i’m sure you must of at least heard of this crazy, glamourous, dirty musical phenomenom known as Semi Precious Weapons. The band, hailing from New York City and led by eccentric frontman, Justin Tranter have been supporting the incredible Lady GaGa on her hugely successful ‘Monster Ball’ all over the world and I myself have had the pleasure of seeing them on that tour twice - both times in Manchester’s MEN Arena.

Now has come the time for the loveable band to unleash their debut album to the world and this week it is released in the UK. So what exactly can you expect from this 9 track effort? Here is my track-by-track review:-

1) Semi Precious Weapons
“I can’t pay my rent but i’m fuckin’ gorgeous” serves as the opening line of this album and indeed, this introduction sets the tone for the entire LP. Tranter’s sexual vocals along with a beat that makes you want to fuck the nearest speaker will have you listening to this, their first single release, all over the summer. An epic track which gets the album off to a cracking start. 10/10

2) Put A Diamond In It
The second track has a chorus just as catchy as the first and includes a guitar solo in the middle segment that sounds like a musical drug. “Who wants my baby?”  Tranter asks us. I think after hearing this track, everyone will want his baby!! Pure genius. 10/10

3) Magnetic Baby
The album continues along its glam-rock road with another track that i’m sure the likes of David Bowie would be proud of. The self-indulgent lyrics in this track is sure to leave a smile on your face and will probably leave you feeling better about yourself. This is a song that really does uplift me. 9/10

4) Statues of Ourselves
Track 4 sees the album slow down a little, whilst still keeping the energy alive. This track is deliciously dirty (‘While I finger your ribcage”) but also gives a sense of vulnerablity (“We don’t know if this will live”). Whilst its a hard one to explain, this is easily my second favourite song on the album and is quickly making its way up to the top of my iTunes Most Played - i’m sure it will be doing the same on yours. 10/10

5) Sticky With Champagne
Pace picks up again for another filthy-glam infused track that is perfect with the volume turned up at a drunken house party - trust me, i’ve tried it! This was the one track that I wasn’t instantly loving when I first heard it, but it sure has grown on me and seems a favourite with other UK fans. Check it out. 9/10

6) I Could Die
There is something about this song, and i’m still not sure what it is, that just makes me get up, rock out & sing along. I absolutely love it. Its easily my third favourite song. Everything about this track just works - lyrics, vocals, drums, guitar, beat - it’s all pure perfection. LOVE IT! Oh, and Justin’s scream at the end just makes it even better 10/10

7) Leave Your Pretty To Me
Now, here comes the gem. The hightlight of this album. This is where my professionalism goes out the window! My favourite song on the album and I can HONESTLY say that this is one of the most beautiful tracks that I have EVER heard by ANYONE. There are no words to describe this song - you really have to hear it for yourself. “The only thing that ever came easy to her was me…so girl go ahead and drink, I can only be so many things” is the chorus and it is sung beautifully by Justin. You can really feel all the emotion in this track that builds to a epic finale. LOVE LOVE LOVE this. I urge everyone to take a listen to this to see the bands full potential and if anyone fails to be moved by this, you have no soul. Semi Precious Weapons - PLEASE release this as a single! 1,000,000/10

8) Rock N Roll Never Looked So Beautiful
Another really good track, but to be honest, by the time you get to this track, you’re still blown away by the previous one! Having said that, if you can calm down and focus on this one, you have one of the highlights of the album. The pace and velocity of this track keeps changing but it suits it well - this really is a mashup for the ears which I don’t think you can fail to love! 9.5/10

9) Look At Me
The album closes with this stripped back, emotional track which again, shows off Justin’s true vocal talents. This is the band at the rawest and leaves Tranter almost acoustic, his voice laid bare for all to hear its beauty. This serves, to me, as the calm after the storm and leaves you feeling satisfied at the end of the LP. 10/10

OVERALL VERDICT:
In ‘You Love You’, Semi Precious Weapons produce an album that ticks all the right boxes and really doesn’t go wrong. It is a solid effort that i’m sure will leave the music world in awe and wanting more. I think we can safely say that this is a band that have many bright years ahead of them & I can’t wait to see them on their own headlining tour as soon as they do one! Overall rating - 9.5/10"

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"Gaga’s Glam Boys: Semi-Precious Weapons" A Review

“I can’t pay the rent, but I’m fuckin’ gorgeous.” That lines explodes on the opening, self-titled track of the Semi-Precious Weapons’ debut LP, You Love You. And it’s certainly not the last time a line belted by sparkly extra-terrestrial singer Justin Tranter will slap you in the face, nor the last reminding you just how gorgeous he is.

In a land of indie dance and electronic, NYC’s Weapons have resurfaced the Bowie glam rock era with a slightly grungier cross-dressing style, mixing glitter and makeup with Converse and flannel in a sort of ‘street glam’ that’s enough to stand out, yet not too much to brand them as all-shtick.

On the “Monster Ball” tour with Lady Gaga—the album’s executive producer as well as  a fellow NYC rock n’ roller—the Weapons are thrilled with their progress this year, says Tranter: “We spent three years driving ourselves around in a murder van to play bars EVERYWHERE, I mean we even played a sports bar in Waterloo, Iowa. Now in the last three months we have made an incredible record that we are proud of, and are on a tour bus playing arenas all over the world with Ms. GaGa! Hard work and magic.”

The magic of the Weapons is nottheir music per se, but in knowing what a beautiful mess they are. For ears unfamiliar with Bowie’s “Major Tom” or, at least, the film soundtrack for Velvet Goldmine, the Weapons may sound like another Jet or The Hives, with heavy guitar and tambourine. Basically, rockin’ songs like “Magnetic Baby” and the beautifully-glam ballad “Leave Your Pretty to Me” may be taken differently if there’s no accompanying image of Tranter working the stage like Marilyn Manson on the other side of the looking glass. –By Julia Dodge

With their modernized New York Dolls look, the Weapons’ sing about diamonds and champagne, being glamorous and adored, and you’ve got to love them for their choice lines: “Sometimes I cry because it makes my eyes look bluer/Sometimes I bleed because red is a good color for me.” Fuckin’ poetry.
You Love You is out on June 22. The Semi-Precious Weapons stop by the HP Pavilion in San Jose on Lady Gaga’s “Monster Ball” tour August 16 & 17.

You Love You: An Album Review

"The terms “raw” and “glam” are seldom used to describe the same band, but they suit New York’s queer-core Semi Precious Weapons quite well.

The band’s latest release, You Love You, is peppered by self-indulgent lyricism and war cries by frontman Justin Tranter.

“It’s not my fault I look better in her party dress, it’s not my fault that you left your slutty girlfriend, it’s not my fault this is how my momma made me, I’ve been magnetic since I was a baby,” sings Tranter on “Magnetic Baby”.

This band made a splash with the free release of 2008’s We Love You, later released on Razor and Tie Records. The Internet release was made possible via lead singer Tranter’s successful jewelry line, sold at Barney’s and early Semi Precious Weapons shows, which consisted of three years playing any bar that would have this dirty band rock its dance floors.

One can imagine that the title of the record, the band’s first with major label Geffen, comes from the fact that Semi Precious Weapons are making music for a cause greater than the band itself — rock ‘n’ roll. Whether the song playing is the eponymous single or the slow-jam love song that closes the record, “Look at Me”, the same raw energy that makes this band a must-see shines through. That energy is the special ingredient that separates this brand of music from its peers, creating a sound that is greater than the sum of its parts. The band is able to do so much with the four standard instruments that rock bands are known for, at times making it seem as if Semi Precious Weapons make up a rock ‘n’ roll orchestra.

The quartet of Berklee School of Music graduates has been opening for Lady Gaga on The Monster Ball Tour, thrusting its literal translation of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll upon 18,000 people every night.

Transitioning from college in Boston has created a unique opportunity for the band to separate itself from the New York hipster scene.

“We got to New York and it was nothing but girls pretending to be in ‘Sex and the City’ and dudes schwerking v-necks, insisting they don’t love The Strokes,” Tranter said recently. “So our bitch asses decided to stop complaining about New York’s hipster plague and start the filthy party band we always wanted to see.”

The band’s success is no accident, with Tranter having a degree in songwriting and drummer Dan Crean earning a degree in classical composition from the aforementioned prestigious university. In addition to this pair, Cole Whittle and Stevy Pyne are no slouches, having Berklee degrees themselves. The resulting mixture has created a local buzz so strong that readers of the Village Voice tabbed Semi Precious Weapons as the “Best Band in New York” last year. The New York-based quartet channels the 1970’s glam-rock era David Bowie and The New York Dolls and mix in the grit of garage bands like The Hives to create a sound that takes fun and filth “very, very seriously”.

With this latest release, no lyric seems more appropriate than “rock ‘n’ roll never looked so beautiful” and soon enough, this band will be able to pay the rent, and the music remains “fucking gorgeous.” (4.0/5.0)

Fans can purchase the album online via iTunes. The album is due out June 29 in the U.S."

Source: Jamie McGrath of idobi.com

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