I need brighter lights. I can’t see what made Alanis Morissette think these songs were good enough to put out. Most aren’t bad. There’s a love-women anthem for men that’s pretty repulsive and Til You is syrupy enough to make you sick, but the background ambience this album provides is nice and breezy.
Listen for the dreamy military drum section at the end of the title song. Producers Guy Sigsworth and Joe Chiccarelli do a decent job in that regard. What’s lacking are any hooks to latch on to. There are hooks; every song has a soaring vocal refrain; but they aren’t catchy. That’s where the real havoc lies.
my rating : 3 of 5
2012
I agree about there being no real ‘hooks,’ and in fact, I was commenting to a friend that the verses seem catchier than the choruses.
If the ‘love-women anthem’ that you find repulsive is ‘Woman Down,’ I’m curious as to how it’s repulsive? Sure, it’s from a woman’s point of view, and women tend to spend more time mulling over the perils of patriarchy than men, but I think it’s objectively a pretty accurate description of how some men truly feel that women are too inferior to be treated with respect.
yeah, you’re right…i’m listening to the cd now…and there are no real hooks that have grabbed me so far…it’s just kinda there!