Lindsay Lohan – A Little More Personal (RAW) — music review
Lindsay Lohan is a hot property these days. Bounding from controversy to controversy, film to film, and to feud to feud (Paris and Hillary), she can’t seem to stay out of the limelight. In fact, Kris has accurately stated Lohan is the millenial answer Tiffany, the white trash singer who took on Debbie Gibson back in the day.
Anyways, Lohan’s latest, A Little More Personal (Raw) is the followup to her prevoious album, Speak. Speak was interesting in an old school Liz Phair sort of way. The songs were vaguely familiar, sounding quite like the work of other better bands, and the bonus track, Rumors, was a genuinely catchy. This time, however, even her inflated chest cannot counteract the flatness of her singing.
Like the mating of cats accompanied by fingernails on a blackboard, Lohan belts out cover after seeming cover (I Want You to Want me and the deja vu feeling IfIt’s Alright), followed by insipid love song and familial exposee (Confessions of a Broken Heart(Daughter to Father)). I wanted to say “C’mon Lindsay, you’re nineteen and rich. Come back when you’ve experienced life.” Track after track I found myself skipping, save for the decently rocking Black Hole and Who Loves You. These have some pretty nice background tracks, with respectable guitars and assorted whatsits that more than make up for the raspy protestations from the center channel. But, alas, two good songs do not a good album make. I Live for the Day, Fastlane, Edge of Seventeen — all are trash. A Little More Personal (Raw) does come with a thick insert of Lohan photos, complete with the requisite sexy photos, but hey, that’s what the internet’s for.
A Little More Personal (Raw) is far from a good album. Hell, it’s far from being even a mediocre album. I guess the mest positive thing I can say is, “At least I didn’t waste any money on it” (Thanks City of Mountain View Public Library). For the rest of you, stay far far away, unless you’re looking to add yet another embarrassing coaster to your CD collection.
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