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The new Starting Line album, Based on a True Story is coming out soon. And it seems the first single is indeed Bedroom Talk. However, the single version sounds a lot better than the version that was in the Drive Thru Records Winter sampler. By better, I mean it sounds a lot more polished. It has a great beat throughout the entire song. As a result, it seems that there is a lot more structure in the song. The winter sampler version sounded a lot slower just because there wasn’t any good way to identify the beat during the first verse. The weird part where he keeps singing “I just don’t know, don’t know, don’t know” (1:52-2:02 Winter Sampler) has thankfully been shortened. The overall song length has been shortened to 4:07 from 4:16. And the part where the timing changes when Kenny sings “Big, big plans”, “Got to mean something more”, sounds really crisp. It actually sounds like it’s driving the song forward instead of in the Winter version, where it sounded like it would stall the momentum of the song. They cut out “You can stay like that for now” (3:00-3:03 Winter Sampler) before “I will always love you”. I actually enjoyed that part, but I guess they’re doing as much as they can to cut out the parts that seem to slow the song down too much. In essence, this is a no-nonsense version of the Winter Sampler version of Bedroom Talk. Not as free-flowing, more to the point. Which is quite unlike this entry, which has rambled on long enough. One last thing: apparently, people have also been dissing Kenny’s hair as of late in addition to the content of Bedroom Talk. But I’m guessing those are the young girls that enjoyed the image he portrayed with his bleached blonde hair. Kenny, I don’t care what color your hair is and/or how long it is. I’ve been a Starting Line fan for too long.

If you want to see Kenny’s long, dark hair for yourself, you can check out ‘boogi’s site.

The Starting Line’s new album, Based on a True Story, hits stores May 10.