Rolling Teenpop 2007 Thread

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emo/screamo is teenpop now, right?

heard this band play on the radio this morning (Wine Red). Not bad, but they should cut the guy loose and just let the girl sing.

― milo z, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost See - I decided by that post that if we're gonna be totally fluid with release dates... I'd rather post Tim McGraw than Raindrops. But yeah, Chuck, heh. I'm totally busted.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Mordy,

First, for the record here are my top 10 singles of the year so far. I don't think I posted this here yet, just on my blog.
1. Natasha Bedingfield - "I Wanna Have Your Babies"
2. Toby Keith - "High Maintenance Woman"
3. My Chemical Romance - "Famous Last Words"
4. Vanessa Hudgens - "Say OK"
5. Hilary Duff - "With Love"
6. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Catch You"
7. Ashley Tisdale - "He Said, She Said'
8. Christina Aguilera - "Candyman"
9. Katharine McPhee - "Over It"
10. Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"

Tisdale: First of all, please note that this song is not likely to make my top 20 or 30 singles of the year when the dust settles (probably will make top 50). It is generic, and there is almost no Tisdale in it. I think Tisdale, while a weak singer, can have a lot of charm as a singer (see: High School Musical, though her "Kiss The Girl" was way too sweet). Practically talking melody in the verses, on top of a fairly generic, but catchy R&B beat. The talking gives way to a really bouncy melody, hand clap percussion underlying it. Synthesizer strains build up the tension at the end of the pre-chorus, leading up to something big. Previously, we've just had one clear singer, but the chorus cuts out practically all the instrumentation except the percussion and underlies the vocals with harmonies and multiple vocal tracks, and slows it down. Rather than building up to a HUGE chorus (ala, say "Famous Last Words" or "Catch You") it takes a step back. I love the bouncy melody and the slowdown harmony chorus and the further slowdown harmony bridge. The vocals are nothing special and neither are the lyrics, which is what prevents it from going higher.

― Greg Fanoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that out of the way

Hannah Montana's newest song is "Nobody's Perfect" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSLXHW4I3VU), and I have to say that I did not expect this at all. This would fit right on on Ashley Tisdale's album, and it's a lot more R&B-ish than any of her other songs. At the same time, it also rocks harder than any of her other songs. It's an attempt to take the normal Hannah template and inject different elements on top of it. The "everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days" part is just injected right into the middle of the song, it doesn't sound like it fits at all. This is way more out of the box than traditional Disney fare. OK, you might notice I haven't said anything about the quality of the song--I'm decidedly lukewarm on it (the melody doesn't seem to be to be anywhere near the best on her last album). If it represents Diz trying to expand the Hannah Montana sound though, I'm all for that. [Have been trying in vain to locate the songwriters on this.]

From Aly & AJ's website: "Aly & AJ are currently in the studio working on their third (and most powerful) album! Look for it in the Summer!" I wonder if by "most powerful" they mean musically or lyrically.

― Greg Fanoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. I had seen your list on your blog. Ok - after American Idol tonight (Halley btw - wow!), I'm gonna write up my 2007-so-far list and throw it up here. But yeah, we're in agreement about Tisdale in that song - there's much less of her than in some of her other songs.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've posted my thoughts on American Idol on the AI thread, but I have to say that Jordin Sparks' "I Who Have Nothing" was amazing! One of my favorite Idol performances I've seen to date.

― Greg Fanoe, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Where's the American Idol thread? Anyway, my top 10 singles so far this year (in no particular order):

1. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
2. R Kelly - Flirt
3. Taylor Swift - Tim McGraw
4. Natasha Bedingfield - Babies
5. Fallout Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
6. The Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
7. Lloyd ft. Lil Wayne - You
8. D.B.’z featuring E-40 – Stewy
9. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
10. The Stooges - Free and Freaky / The Stooges - My Idea of Fun

The normal all-over assortment of singles. No particular order, though some are more heavily weighted than others. I can't imagine Bright Eyes, Bedingfield, Lloyd, or Bright Eyes making it to the end. Also, if Spring Awakening OST had a single, it would certainly be on the list. Also, I like both Stooge's singles equally, though my preference is for "My Idea of Fun" slightly over "Free and Freaky" but not enough to not list both - also, I don't like either well enough to give them their own slot. Together they earn slot 10. Any other caveats... oh, yeah. Swift is the cheater listing, because it was a single in 2006 - but it didn't hit charts until 2007. So I'm counting it. Na-na-na-boo-boo.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. I listed Bright Eyes twice as not making it. I guess that makes it doubly-true. I actually meant to include the Klaxons in my list of songs I can't imagine making it - unless it really starts to grow on me more than it has already.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have a copy of Jordan Sparks singing "I Who Have Nothing?" I can't seem to dig one up.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mordy,

You can always find the performances on Youtube (this one is here http://youtube.com/watch?v=OzkNMiKjrGU). Now you can download the studio versions and video clips (for pay) from the American Idol site too, if you so desire (http://downloads.americanidol.com/). As for some kind of mp3 for download, I cannot help there.

― Greg Fanoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Mordy, "Tim McGraw" was all over the country charts in late 2006 (I was hearing it on country radio as early as October if not September) but didn't peak until January 2007, so you can always vote for it on the criterion of its "having its greatest impact" in 2007, though that might be a stretch. I voted for Aly & AJ's "Rush" for 2006, even though it already had over a month of Radio Disney airplay in late 2005; the vid and its presence beyond Radio Disney didn't happen until 2007, so that was one of my rationalizations for voting for it; also that it remained a dominant song on Disney for many months into 2006.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

American Idol Thread hiding over on I Love Everything. But if there are any exceptional performances feel free to link them here. Or talk all you want to about AI over here, I don't mind. I gave up on it several weeks ago, since I didn't think any of the singers was anything special, but Jordin doing "I Who Have Nothing" is nice - not close to being up there with Carrie covering Tiffany and sounding totally Carrie in doing so; but it was a good version of the song.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Stream the new Hilary album. You might have to enter yr email address, but I'm pretty sure you can give 'em a fake one. Can't tell the sound quality at the moment cuz I'm not on my own computer.

― dabug, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

For idol performances, use rickey.org

― Tape Store, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Stream the new Hilary album.

They're streaming 24kb/s MP3s, so the sound quality's crummy. Fantastically rippable, though!

On first listen, I'm underwhelmed. Less than underwhelmed. The production starts out all 1997 and meanders back to 1985, and not in a good way.

― Nia, Friday, 23 March 2007 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

The low-quality stream drove me away; all the bass was coming out cruddy and fuzz-toned (though I think Kara was going for a lot of fuzz-toned bass anyway). Problem is that I compare everything to "Come Clean." Can we rescue John Shanks from mediocre country and dull singer-songwriter adults and bring him back to teenpop?

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

so far this year I'm way more excited about my top 10 singles than my albums:

01 Grinderman – No Pussy Blues
02 Kleerup ft. Robyn – With Every Heartbeat
03 All Saints – Chick Fit
04 Linda Sundblad – Lose You
05 Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
06 Natasha Bedingfield – I Wanna Have Your Babies
07 Bloc Party – I Still Remember
08 Katharine McPhee – Over It
09 Amerie – Take Control
10 Sarah Buxton – That Kind of Day

― JoshLove, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Only 2 albums this year that I've been excited about so far, Jordan Pruitt's No Ordinary Girl and Fall Out Boy's Infinity On High. Though I haven't listened to any of the indie-approved albums yet (!!!, Panda Bear, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, etc.)

― Greg Fanoe, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

strictly pop:

1. Be Good to Me- Ashley Tisdale
2. Over It- Jordan Pruitt
3. Girlfriend- Avril Lavigne
4. So Much for You- Ashley Tisdale
5. Goin Crazy- Ashley Tisdale
6. Cheat- Linda Sundblad
7. Headstrong- Ashley Tisdale
8. Over It- Ashley Tisdale
9. Lose You- Linda Sundblad
10. Oh Father- Linda Sundblad

Honorable mention- Catch You (S.E. Bextor), Over It (Mcphee)

I'm presuming sundblad's record is 2007. Also, R. Kelly's I'm a Flirt might be my favorite single of the year, but I tried to keep this list strictly teenpop/art-pop.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Greg, Panda Bear = Joanna Newsom circa 2006 = Panda Bear circa 2005. Ie: Screechy annoying indie-kid rock. (And you can take that to the bank.)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 23 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Jimmy Draper alerted me to this clip from Entertainment Weekly:

Mr. Simpson tells us Ashlee, Chad [Hugo, of Neptunes], and Kenna were in the studio writing songs earlier this month, and that she's also working with Timbaland, John Legend, and Tim Rice-Oxley of Brit sensations Keane, who teamed up with Gwen Stefani on ''Lonely Winter,'' one of the strongest, most reflective tracks on her recent Sweet Escape album. The bigger shocker? Ashlee's also reportedly collaborating with Robert Smith. Yes, as in the legendary frontman of Alternative Nation icons the Cure. Could their mutual buddy, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, be the connection? When asked by our west-coast counterpart Shirley Halperin, Wentz demurred. ''I doubt I had anything to do with it, 'cause they were friends since she was performing in Chicago [in London last year]. But I definitely only have good things to say about Ash - I think the collaboration could be great!'' Indeed; whatever these two Lovecats come up with, it's bound to be interesting!

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 23 March 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Am liking a lot of what's on this cdbaby CD by Bahaman girl singer Tada. So far, I prefer her in what I'm defining as Lady Sovereign/M.I.A/Lily Allen mode ("OK" and "Tada") and lover's rock mode ("Footprints in the Sand") to her still nonetheless pretty good Rhianna/r&b mode ("Dangerous," though Rhianna is probably not the right reference point -- definitely a Caribbean lilt to the r&b though, so what the heck). The rest of the CD isn't bad, either:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/tada2

― xhuxk, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Can we talk about Esmee Denters?

― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

If we know something about her we can.

(OK, just checked her MySpace. She likes Alicia Keyes, who's a good singer to like but not necessarily to emulate, since Alicia is one of the rare recent soulish singers whose soulfulness hasn't turned into dreariness. Would Esmée's being Dutch protect her from being surrounded by overreverence towards the form? I wouldn't know.)

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Loose ends:

According to Great American Country, Taylor Swift's "Tim McGraw" first hit the country top 40 the week of July 20, 2006.

Other recent singles I'm liking a whole lot: Shaggy "Church Heathen," Ashley Tisdale "Be Good To Me," Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye," Kleerup f. Robyn "With Every Heartbeat," Thierry Amiel "Coeur Sacre," Calvin Harris "Acceptable In The '80s," Lil Mama "Lip Gloss," Redman "Put It Down," Magnus Carlsson "Live Forever," Mims "This Is Why I'm Hot," Trick Daddy f. Baby "Tuck Ya Ice," D4L "Tatted Up," Modest Mouse "Dashboard," Birdman "I Know What I'm Doing," Stephanie McIntosh "So Do I Say Sorry First?," Miranda Lambert "Famous In A Small Town."

I wouldn't say that many of these are close to teenpop (Tisdale and McIntosh for sure, Lil Mama and Kleerup if you want to count them (why not?), maybe D4L if you want to count snap as bubblegum). I once said that with a better rhythm section and better singers, Sonic Youth's "She's In A Bad Mood" could be a Fleetwood Mac song. Silversun Pickups' "Lazy Eye" might be what I had in mind. Thierry Amiel's "Coeur Sacre" seems to be French sentimental balladeering that interpolates the riff from ATC's great great great Eurodisco hit "Around The World" into its chorus without changing its French-song character except by getting prettier.

Most of the Tada tracks seem likable but in-one-ear-and-out-the-other; the one that stands out a bit is the self-titled "Tada," which, as Xhuxk says, has Lady Sov tendencies.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm intrigued by Esmee's backstory - multiple Dutch TV appearances & a writeup in
Billboard, all on the strength of her Youtube videos. I'd like to see her get signed, as she definitely has a voice, is cute as a button, and judging from her vlog clips (in which she speaks alarmingly good English), she seems like a genuinely nice kid.

― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Thierry Amiel's "Coeur Sacre" seems to be French sentimental balladeering that interpolates the riff from ATC's great great great Eurodisco hit "Around The World" into its chorus without changing its French-song character except by getting prettier.

Listening to this right now off the myspace - fantastic! In addition to what you mentioned, I'm also hearing shades of Technique-era New Order.

More about Esmee Denters here.

― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

By March 6, she went again to the United States, for writing songs and maybe signing a record deal. She is reported to have signed a deal with songwriter Billy Mann and to have been in the studio with Kelly Rowland.

Billy Mann was one of the writers on the most recent Pink album.

― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Something might actually happen, then.

― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

My take on Good Charlotte got posted. Hopefully this explains why I find them intolerably misogynistic better.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Good Charlotte's "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" has a scraping, grinding, gargling sound that's strong and unexpected. Haven't made my way to figuring out what the lyrics are about yet, whether or not misogyny is in the house. Also, think that the track would be more powerful still with some rolling funk embedded in it.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hilary Duff's new album is pretty great in my opinion. Lots of cool tracks, "Outside Of You" is getting thrown on repeat a lot.

― r.h., Thursday, 29 March 2007 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ross falls in love with Marit Larsen

Kevin Elliott interviews her in Stylus

I think the most important thing I learned is that when you’re standing on that stage and you’re so alone and so naked, it doesn’t matter that the producer was so stubborn or the record company wanted it to be this way or that way, because all the audience sees is you. They’re going think that it’s your opinion, your choices in melodies, and if it sucks it sucks. People won’t buy it.

― Frank Kogan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure what to make off the Duff one's new album after first listen. It may end up being in my mind a record with a large number of great "moments within songs" (e.g. the 'Pick it up, pick it up' chant in "Dignity" and the (slightly wtf) 'Were you born in 74?' line in "Danger", the skipped beats in ... whichever song that was) but no outstanding songs as such.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

P!nk appears to have co-written "Outside Of You" by the way.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Avril Lavigne, The Manga

― Groke, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Liking H-Duff more with more listens..."Dignity" should be irking me with its message (I think) but it's a really good song and I don't care so much. And the lyrics aren't as in-yr-face as "Stupid Girls." (Hilary's kind of pissin' in the wind here, trying to position herself in opposition to Lindsay et al -- er, basically just Britney at this point, right? -- like she's got something to prove to somebody...but who's she appealing to, Disney censors? They're barely pushin' "With Love" as it is).

"Gypsy Woman" is great! Would be my favorite if I liked the song as much as the idea of the song...very WTF. Melodic turn-the-can-and-it-moos (or maybe the electronic Baby Jesus on that old SNL commercial) and some snatch of dialogue bookending it and...um, "gypsy" as dark mysterious femme fatale. In 2007. On an American teenpop album. This is like Ch!pz territory. "She can swallow knives/She can swallow lives/Golden black stare/But the night of your demise"...She's "bringing down the family name"(!)

Nice hiccuping track after that, "Never Stop," rollicking, bounds along and threatens to go over the top into a total cartoon but unfortunately doesn't. Hilary's not cool, which is one thing that makes (can make) her music so great (nerdy android trying really hard and sometimes succeeding to move you).

"Outside of You" is kind of Rachel Stevens hard strut til the chorus when it gets about as close as she comes to a confessionalish chorus, nice balance of old with new. Liking the album a lot more. "With Love" is actually kinda weak compared to a few of these. Hard to take the whole album all at once, though...which is actually kinda how I felt about Come and Get It when I first heard it, I guess. Like eating a whole cake (except this cake's not as good). Generally I wish Hilary was as goofy as some of the scenery, though, or did something interesting with surrounding goofiness, like Margaret Berger in "Robot Song."

― dabug, Friday, 30 March 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ok on third thought this is probably album of the year so far.

― dabug, Friday, 30 March 2007 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Most of the Tada tracks seem likable but in-one-ear-and-out-the-other

Totally disagree with this. If it counts as teen-pop (and Lily Allen and Taylor Swift don't, and/or if they count as 2006) it's my teen-pop album of the year so far*, with way more indelible and easily digestible hooks than on any Ciara or Cassie or Jojo or (closest comparison of these) Rhianna album I've heard. The lover's rock track "Footprints In the Sand" has a sweetness that I haven't heard in any r&b hit in a long time. Also really like "Who You Leanin On," "Superman," "When I Found You," and especially "Tada" and "OK."

* -- Which I guess just means I'd take it over Jordan Pruitt's CD, but whatev.

― xhuxk, Friday, 30 March 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ok on third thought this is probably album of the year so far.

I was hesitant to say this but man, I liked it a lot when I first heard it and I keep going back to it, so..

― r.h., Friday, 30 March 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

According to V.I.P. the next Ashley Tisdale single will be "Not Like That," which I think is her best song. (I can't vouch for V.I.P.'s knowledge; Wikipedia is reporting "Headstrong" getting chart action; different countries may get different singles.) I don't know yet what I think of Tisdale over all: she puts emotion and energy and psychology into her singing, but I'd describe her underlying vocal character as nonexistent, characterless. But if a singer records a slew of good songs, it's got to have something to do with her. She's not up to a slew yet, but her singles have been consistently good ("Kiss The Girl" my least favorite, but it's still likable).

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 31 March 2007 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Xhuxk, the day Tada samples Toto is the day I'll take her seriously. (That's not necessarily true. I only listened to Tada once, so I'm not dismissing her. I simply wanted to put "Tada" and "Toto" in the same sentence.)

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 31 March 2007 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Only have listened to the Duff once; consistently good and the two singles are definitely not the best things on it, but nothing has clicked in to totally knock me out yet. Her voice is still small but huskier than before, which I think is a good thing. She's adaptible and probably doesn't have any particular artistic vision or anything really to say (neither of which are prerequisites for great music), but she does always sound like Hilary. This as opposed to Tisdale sounding like so-what. Yet I might end up preferring my two favorite Tisdales to anything on Dignity. Too soon to tell, and three tracks on Dignity jumped out on first listen as strong contenders: "Stranger," "Danger," and "Happy," the first two of which having something of an Asian tinge, and "Happy" (despite its title and lyrics) having a mournful eeriness (which reminds me of freestyle which always seemed to have a hint of the Middle East by way of Spain, which means maybe this one too can be said to have an Asian thing going on). Hilary's singing on "Danger" is quite clearly an attempt to sound like Paris Hilton (which I mean as high praise) - strong resemblance to "Not Leaving Without You." (Both "Danger" and "Leaving" are co-written by Kara DioGuardi, as are all but two tracks on Dignity. As is Tisdale's "Be Good To Me.")

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 31 March 2007 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think Tisdale's record is pretty fantastic from start to finish. I enjoy "Not Like That" as well, but it's probably only my 6th or 7th favorite song on the album.

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 31 March 2007 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

P!nk appears to have co-written "Outside Of You" by the way.

According to a Hilary fan site it's credited to "A. Moore/C. Kreviazuk/R. Maida," and "Pink Inside Management" is listed in the album credits, so you're probably right (Pink's real name being Alecia Moore). Kreviazuk and Maida are the Our Lady Peace people who co-wrote some of the lesser stuff on Clarkson's Breakaway (as well as writing stuff for a bunch of other people too).

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 31 March 2007 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Kelefa Sanneh may be the best music critic writing regularly in the commercial press, but I think his calling Good Charlotte's "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" a "foolhardy foray into rap" is pretty foolish itself, since Madden's vocal cadences are hard rock all the way on that song, even if he's mostly talking/snarling the words rather than singing them. Josh Bell in the Las Vegas Weekly says the song is "awkwardly rapping about bling," whereas I think Joel is very effectively bearing down on the words like a rocker. Still haven't made my way to making sense of the words, which may indeed be awkward or foolish but the vocals are fine. Not that rock cadences can't be used in hip-hop, for instance LL Cool J's "Go Cut Creator Go" and Run DMC's "Sucker MCs," good shouting over beats. But the Offspring's "Come Out And Play" seems a more accurate analog to "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl."

(To be fair to Kelefa, he was griping mainly about the words. Still, he seems to be misinterpreting what the music's doing.)

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 31 March 2007 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Not Like That" also has an Asian tinge (though DioGuardi didn't help write it).

― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

I only liked "Not Like That" OK until I understood what it was really about, or who it was about, which is basically the only Ashley Tisdale that I can identify as unique on the whole album. And it corresponds to how I imagine a Disney star might feel, generally wholesome but not THAT wholesome, making you dance because it's what she's there to do, but still having some second thoughts.

Also, I remember it having a mambo-ish feel, not an Asian feel, but I haven't heard it in a while so I could be wrong.

― dabug, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

I quite like "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl"! That surprises me, more due to the song than the band who I'm neutral about.

Oddly I just picked up Hillary Duff, ultra-belatedly. Much more rock than I was really expecting - "Mr James Dean" is harder than any other 2000s teenpop I've heard, perhaps. And there are times when it feels like Duff is aching to go all Mandy Moore singer-songwriterish, esp. the last two tracks. Weird combination of awful lyrics with strange moments of poetic insight. Good on the whole!

What a strange career development though: "Wake Up" and "Beat of my Heart" sound so much more juvenile than anything on that record (though I don't meant that as a criticism) and now she's going Rachel Stevens-ish? And Avril's done "Girlfriend" and Ashlee's working for The Neptunes/Timbaland... is it the end of the teenpop-as-confessional-rock era?

― Tim F, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

As in, i'm surprised I like "Keep Your Hands off my Girl" given the kind of song it is.

― Tim F, Saturday, 31 March 2007 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

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