The true beauty of Jill Scott's Beautifully Human is the ease with which that album flows through the stereo. Her singing, her lyrics both are so confident and smart that you can't help but get pulled into the whole experience. So often I think the success of an album is this ease of the artist. Not that Born to Run was an easy album to make, but it is certainly an easy album to listen to. I say all of this because I believe this is the shortfall of this Chrisette Michele album. Lyrically the songs don't flow easily and musically the songs seem to be fighting along trying to figure out what they and Michele as a singer want to accomplish. This isn't to say the album is bad, but it falls short for me.
I could see playing this while cleaning out the garage.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 2 out of 5 stars for Not Bad.
I like that song a good bit.
ReplyDeleteThe album quality that you're talking about--easily flowing through the stereo--is definitely real, and I'd never thought of it in quite that way. Well-put. Born to Run is a perfect example. Here's another.