“Madman’s” crazy and nihilistic life may be coming to an end. In 2017, Osbourne, Iommi & Co. decided disband Black Sabbath, the founding band of heavy metal, ending with almost 50 years of permanent musical activity through many different line-ups and musicians. So probably, this album might be one of the last shots fired by the “Prince of Darkness”, especially if we also take into account his fragile health condition.
Conceptually, this album shows at its best what Ozzy Osbourne really is. He can be a nasty perv, capable of eating bats and ants while he’s sniffing drug, which can also be a fancy gentleman by the way he dresses up, for example. This is shown at its best on the album’s single and homonymous song “Ordinary Man”, which at its chorus says: “Yes, I've been a bad guy, been higher than the blue sky and the truth is I don't wanna die an ordinary man”.
The album, in facts, shines especially in this aspect, because lyrically it’s able to sum up what Ozzy has been and what does his artistic career represents. Because actually, musically speaking, the albums turns to be at some points really bland. Considering the album was produced by Andrew Watt, former producer of pop singers such as Selena Gomez or Justin Bieber, it seems quite obvious that the album wouldn’t be totally convincing. Despite Watt is able to capture Osbourne’s unique voice, the album falls completely apart from the heavy style that “The Madman” had delivered in his solo project back in the 80’s. No matter how many high-distorted guitars Watt may add (he also takes the guitar duties) nor the features of rock legends such as Guns’n’Roses’ Slash or Duff McKagan or Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Chad Smith. The album will keep being a generic and average rock album. The shining stars here are “Ordinary World”, the great highlight, and bonus track “Take What You Want”, Post Malone’s song featuring Osbourne which was originally released as a track of Malone’s last album Hollywood’s Bleeding. There are some other good stuff around the album such as the heavy riffs from “Straight to Hell” and “It’s a Raid”, which sadly, both of them end to be diluted on bad attempts to create a heavy metal song.
Actually, this is no more than a nice self-tribute by “The Prince of Darkness”. Despite his past narcissistic actions such as a reality show about his family and his own life, Ozzy Osbourne continues being what he really is releasing this “Ordinary Man”, which considering his health issues and this self-tribute approach, it seems to conclude his artistic career.
Conceptually, this album shows at its best what Ozzy Osbourne really is. He can be a nasty perv, capable of eating bats and ants while he’s sniffing drug, which can also be a fancy gentleman by the way he dresses up, for example. This is shown at its best on the album’s single and homonymous song “Ordinary Man”, which at its chorus says: “Yes, I've been a bad guy, been higher than the blue sky and the truth is I don't wanna die an ordinary man”.
The album, in facts, shines especially in this aspect, because lyrically it’s able to sum up what Ozzy has been and what does his artistic career represents. Because actually, musically speaking, the albums turns to be at some points really bland. Considering the album was produced by Andrew Watt, former producer of pop singers such as Selena Gomez or Justin Bieber, it seems quite obvious that the album wouldn’t be totally convincing. Despite Watt is able to capture Osbourne’s unique voice, the album falls completely apart from the heavy style that “The Madman” had delivered in his solo project back in the 80’s. No matter how many high-distorted guitars Watt may add (he also takes the guitar duties) nor the features of rock legends such as Guns’n’Roses’ Slash or Duff McKagan or Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Chad Smith. The album will keep being a generic and average rock album. The shining stars here are “Ordinary World”, the great highlight, and bonus track “Take What You Want”, Post Malone’s song featuring Osbourne which was originally released as a track of Malone’s last album Hollywood’s Bleeding. There are some other good stuff around the album such as the heavy riffs from “Straight to Hell” and “It’s a Raid”, which sadly, both of them end to be diluted on bad attempts to create a heavy metal song.
Actually, this is no more than a nice self-tribute by “The Prince of Darkness”. Despite his past narcissistic actions such as a reality show about his family and his own life, Ozzy Osbourne continues being what he really is releasing this “Ordinary Man”, which considering his health issues and this self-tribute approach, it seems to conclude his artistic career.
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