Welcome to the sweet and bitter world of Paula Cole; a 26-year-old woman who doesn’t seem to hold back when it comes to expressing her feelings. “I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant will turn and look at me,” she confesses. But it’s just a metaphor. Either that or she’s crazy. Random screaming at the end of a piano piece entitled Neitzsche’s Eyes suggests the latter.
Elsewhere she’s threatening to bite off the head of her boyfriend’s dick. I get what he sees in her though. She doesn’t offer much in terms of sexual allure, aside from posing nude on the cover photo, but her songs are musically and conceptually appealing. The album blazes with love themes. There’s also a lust theme with “Love” in the title. There she compares what’s happening between her thighs to The Amazon River.
my rating : 4 of 5
1996