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...halfway mark, then “Daddy’s Gone” will be the one that hooks you. Starting with, “How you’re my hero / How you’re never here though,” this Emo-Motown ballad features the laments of a son thinking of his runaway dad. The content of the lyrics, the supporting synth, the old school, melancholic sound, and a booming chorus with James Allan shrieking, “He’s gone, he’s gone,” make this a thoroughly disarming...
...Almanac.” But there are still others that offer sounds entirely new to Adams’ catalog. Take the bouncy pop-rock tracks “Fix It” and “Evergreen.” While these songs still have the folksy, raspy-voiced ballad feel that Adams effortlessly maintains, they tend to focus more on the hook and groove. “Evergreen” is a happy tune with snappy acoustic phrases and a mellow that aren’t a far cry from (I hate to say it) Jack Johnson. Another sound...
...flavor on “No Other Love” (featuring British diva Estelle of “American Boy” fame) and infectious bonus “Can’t Be My Lover.” Things slow down toward the second half with the excusable ballad “This Time”—a return to the piano-driven, earnest love song Legend has mastered, except this time backed by even sappier strings—and the sweeter, stronger tunes “Take Me Away?...
...songwriter. But “Little Honey” features a better blend of content than most of her discography, incorporating newfound joyful ideas and less petty subjects. Her famously raspy voice, stronger than ever on this album, dominates each song, be it a rocking tune or a sweet ballad. Right from the start, “Real Love” features with an exciting guitar riff, reminiscent of the good old days of country music. Atypically celebrating the joys of “real love,” Williams excels in getting our hearts pumping and ready...
...HSM3, the choreography (by Ortega, Charles Klapow and Bonnie Story) has some of Astaire's formal inventiveness. As Gabriella sings the separation ballad Walk Away, as she leaves her house to head for an early course at Stanford, pictures on the wall slowly disappear to suggest that the life she's leaving behind may have been just a sweet dream. In Troy's separation song, Scream, his world goes literally topsy-turvy, rotating like the room whose walls and ceiling Astaire danced on in Royal Wedding. For Fred it was a lark; for Troy, the agony of a kid having...