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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...near mystical stylings in “Take it Back.” When playing to this depth, and combining eerie and haunting beats and samples with equally engaging rhymes, Swollen Members are at their strongest. “Deep End” has the smoothest beat on the album??a “Knight-Rider”-esque bubbling melody, ensconced in a faint synthesizer and steady drumbeat. Prevail and Madchild exchange verses seamlessly on the track, as they salute the midnight hours: “Work the latenight / Not that we hate light / Just feels right...
Motherland Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant, formerly the voice behind 10,000 Maniacs, is in great form on her new album??s first track, “This House Is On Fire.” An oriental-flavored, reggae-styled track, “Fire” gives her plenty of opportunity to show off her distinctive, back-of-the-throat voice and its impressive power. If only the rest of the album had as much attitude. The transition from the valkyrie voice of the first track where Merchant sings, “Soon come the day / When this...
...year / I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer,” in traditional Blink-182 sing-song fashion. Smash Mouth and ’NSYNC also make their standard contributions. But as well as these songs fit within the TRL genre, none of the album??s non-traditional material has a snowball’s chance in hell of achieving the status of Christmas classic...
...dreariness of the typical teen life. Rather than depicting a lush vision of beautiful people in beautiful places, Spears sings about one predominant theme: her repression and desire to break free. Not only is the motif a trite one, but it also is repeated with such monotony on her album??eight of the twelve tracks are about her restrictions—that it loses all significance. The other four songs are overt sexual invitations, neither particularly interesting nor titillating...
...magenta, blue, and cyan. None of the photos are appealing to any degree; cheesecake fans will be sorely disappointed. Spears doesn’t even look happy to be at her photo shoot—her once youthful exuberance has metamorphosed into a tired repetition of midriff shots. The album??s music itself is less than forty minutes long over twelve tracks, and none of the songs has the strength to sustain itself for even four minutes. She may just be playing to short adolescent attention spans, but simultaneously throws out any semblance of real effort...