The "cute-chick-singer-songwriter" field is like the gosh darned Breakfast Club. You've got Fiona Apple as Bender, crawling through ceilings and doing drugs until she decides to put out an album on her own terms. Miranda Lambert is the jock who duct tapes people's butt cheeks together. Vanessa Carlton is the nerd who is sexually inexperienced but oh, so adorable. Alicia Keys is Molly Ringwald, the most popular girl in school.
That leaves Sarah Bareilles as the basket case, Allison. In The Breakfast Club you think Allison is some rad spirit with untapped potential that everyone ignores, but it turns out one makeover later she's going home with Emilio Estevez.
Bareilles got a makeover of her own, and it's the reason why anyone noticed her in the first place. Six of the tracks on the album, including "Love Song" were brought in from Bareilles' first album, given full band treatments and turned into all-around better songs. The real "Love Song," Sarah Bareilles' "Love Song," not the record company's and the producer's version is boring as hell.
Thanks to the iTunes push "Love Song" received followed by Top 40 rotation and a commercial or four, anyone coming into Little Voice with expectations of a tough, punchy girl who snarls when she smiles will be disappointed. Despite some gems early on, tracks four straight through 12 end up being one long, boring piano number after another. And with titles like, "Love Song," "One Sweet Love" and "Love On The Rocks" it's not hard for every track to run into the next. "Come Around Soon" tries to infuse some Maroon 5-ish soul into the mix and shows that Bareilles has way more in her than just a little voice, but it's just one step forward in a race run backwards.
That leaves Sarah Bareilles as the basket case, Allison. In The Breakfast Club you think Allison is some rad spirit with untapped potential that everyone ignores, but it turns out one makeover later she's going home with Emilio Estevez. Bareilles got a makeover of her own, and it's the reason why anyone noticed her in the first place. Six of the tracks on the album, including "Love Song" were brought in from Bareilles' first album, given full band treatments and turned into all-around better songs. The real "Love Song," Sarah Bareilles' "Love Song," not the record company's and the producer's version is boring as hell.
Thanks to the iTunes push "Love Song" received followed by Top 40 rotation and a commercial or four, anyone coming into Little Voice with expectations of a tough, punchy girl who snarls when she smiles will be disappointed. Despite some gems early on, tracks four straight through 12 end up being one long, boring piano number after another. And with titles like, "Love Song," "One Sweet Love" and "Love On The Rocks" it's not hard for every track to run into the next. "Come Around Soon" tries to infuse some Maroon 5-ish soul into the mix and shows that Bareilles has way more in her than just a little voice, but it's just one step forward in a race run backwards.
hate the song! It got so damn popular! I love "Gravity" though!