Tag: Paula Cole

audio review : Secretary ( song ) … Paula Cole

I’d be willing to bet a new listener my next paycheck he or she can’t figure out what Paula Cole is saying during the chorus of this song. I certainly didn’t, not before I read the official lyrics on her site. Not that it matters much. That scream session is the best part of this office sex fantasy.

Miss Cole plays the role of a secretary; the naughty type who smacks her masochistic boss in the face to make him “hard”. The climax is, as unintelligible as its lyrics may be, intensely gratifying, or at least gratifyingly intense. My only major gripe is that the first one only lasts four bars.

my rating : 4 of 5

2013

audio review : Raven ( album ) … Paula Cole

audio review : Raven ( album ) … Paula Cole

audio review : Raven ( album ) ... Paula Cole

Paula Cole is best when she’s bawling like a lunatic. Those moments are typically the highlights of her albums and this one is no exception. Billy Joe and Imaginary Man are decent, but it’s the office sex fantasy where she plays a naughty Secretary that flies highest. The song’s climax is intensely gratifying… or at least gratifyingly intense.

What this album would do better without are the short four-bar choruses, which could ruin an otherwise enjoyable song. A chorus should almost always go by eights. Not that this songbird needs music lessons from me. She and her band are masters at making cozy mood music. It’s just that sometimes that mood is kind of boring.

my rating : 3 of 5

2013