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Originally posted by Hard Candy
I'm actually really surprised at how good this album is. Her sound is way more mature than I expected. It exceeded my expectations to be honest. HOWEVER; yes, of course there's gonna be a howevers! Ironically, contrary to the title of the album, it lacks an identity. It has no clear direction and I felt that most of the songs sound like they are inspired by other pop songs that has already been heard before. For example, "First Bad Habit" reminds me of U+UR Hand by P!nk, "Identified" sounds like Hilary Duff/POM, "Hook Up" sounds like Jessica Simpson "Fired Up", "Don't Leave" sounds like Jordin Sparks "Tattoo", "Paper Cut" sounds almost identical to Hilary Duff's "Come Clean". I couldn't tolerate the last three tracks and the Auto-Tune is kinda overused.
There's also ONE BIG FLAW in the whole album, well, at least for me. I've noticed that most of the songs start very well during the verses and once reach the chorus..BOOM! they get extremely cheesy and very 90s Teeny Popish. It kinda annoys me.
But on the good side, this album definitely worth the listen. Pure Pop fans will surely enjoy the ride. There are no entirely horrendous songs, it's just the lack of originality that bothers me. And a HUGE A+ for "Last Night", i believe it's a Mark Ronson track, right? This song is one of the greatest opening tracks ever and probably the reason that encouraged me to listen to this album. Absolutely fresh and very Winehouse-esque, well, it sounds more like Duff but I despise her so I'll use Amy's name since she's the original ^_^. She sounds very mature and I wished the whole album had this sound. SECOND SINGLE PLZ. And "Sneakernight"? Great song right there. Vanessa is getting there and looks like she has a promising future. Ashley Tisdale can eat her pinocchio nose out.
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I agree with you on how the album lacks originality.
The songs are hot but they sound like other tracks that have already been done.
And yea, I also thought "Last Night" was a Mark Ronson track but it was acatually produced by Scott Jacoby.
I don't know why that Japanese site put Mark as one of the album's producers.
And LOL @ the Tisdale nose comment.
