Los Angeles Times' Jeff Weiss viewed the song as "generic" with Usher "singing generic paeans to a paramour's eyes over a Eurovision-like Max Martin production".
In July , 1997 a listing in this magazine noted that it specialized in "plodding power chords and generic sing-along choruses like 'Hey-hey-ah!' and 'Good, good, so good,' all of which makes the band perfect fodder for the college-football crowd".
Three minutes into watching his alma mater's new recruiting video, "That's Why I Chose Yale," Christopher Buckley, Class of '75, son of the late William F., Class of '50, paused to pour himself a "stiff one" and dashed off an e-mail to another alumnus: "OMFG!" On the screen, an actor dressed as an admissions officer had begun singing generic collegiate propaganda in bouncy rhyming couplets.
Punctuating the relentless bathos are appearances by the comedian Yakov Smirnoff (you remember: "America — what a country!") and montage barrages of sun-saturated landscapes, national monuments and softball games, accompanied by generic choral singing.
Last Chance 'Fat Camp' (closes on Sunday) There's a little too much artificial sweetener in this perky but generic musical about teenagers singing their way to slimmer waistlines.
Incorporating this concept into music is truly an art form as opposed to the manufactured superstars who sing generic lyrics for monetary gain.
The numbers all sound like something somebody somewhere might have recorded 30 or 40 years ago, but to no great effect; if an act like the Dreamgirls were singing songs as generic and lame as these back in the day, they would have never made it out of Detroit.
Her singing voice was completely generic, yet also eerily distinctive.
And the stuff he was singing about was not just generic love stories, but things actually going on in his life.
The generic music pieces are one Rock piece with a male singing voice, one Jazz piece, one Electronic piece with very high energy at high frequencies, and one Classical music symphony piece.
