Music Tuesday: Bow Wow and Omarion "Face Off"

Two midgets from Snow White's posse of dwarfs, Sleepy and Dopey, have decided to team up and release an album together. The move has shaken the music world to its core. Sleepy and Dopey are of course better known by their stage names Omarion and Bow Wow.

Just kidding, y'all. But for real, those two are little guys.

Anyway, their joint effort is being led off by the very mediocre lead single "Girlfriend," which so far has only taken the twosome to #46 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is a chirpy "Aye, you my shawty" song. The biggest mistake I see on this song, aside from the uninspired production, is the lack of a good hook! The song is instead anchored by yelps of "Yup! That's my girlfriend!" Come on now, Omarion could've at least tried.

And I say Omarion, because of the two he's got more talent, although that's not really saying much. Bow Wow had heads turned for a minute with his verse on the remix to Dem Franchize Boyz' "Oh I Think They Like Me," but then rumors ran rampant that Da Brat wrote his verse for him, and then his album "The Price of Fame" came out and no one cared again.

Omarion showed some potential with last year's surprise hit "Ice Box" but unfortunately, he was unable to reproduce the success of that song on any subsequent singles on the album.

So the question is: Can a mediocre former teen heartthrob rapper, and a mediocre former teen heartthrob singer, make an excellent album and have extraordinary success? I'd say, nah. The odds aren't in their favor.