The biggest problem with this album is Sunny Sweeney. It's a tight collection of songs and they are produced very well around Sweeney's hard twang. The problem is there isn't enough in Sweeney's abilities as a singer to make this album anymore than a standard country album. There are two songs in particular that really highlight Sweeney's limits as a singer. The first is the best song on the album "From a Table Away." It's a heartbreaker about our singer seeing her boyfriend confess his love to his estranged wife just a table away in a crowded bar. This is by far Sweeney's best vocal performance on the album, but even it comes across sounding flat and unemotional. The other I would point to is the final song "Fall For Me." It's a song of empowerment about how our singer is going to get this guy to fall for her. It is so flat and disconnected it's hard to imagine anyone falling for this person. A good singer could take this song in a couple of directions. Either you turn it to be a sad song where it's obvious this guy is never going to fall for her, or you turn it to a complete power song about how she knows he's going to fall for her. As it is with Sweeney it's just a lyric with no real connection to an emotional base.
It's a passible country album if you're in the mood to hear something new.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 1 out of 5 stars for Just OK.
this is an outstanding song.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's the first song to go into my best songs of 2012 list.
ReplyDeleteShe has writing credits on this song as well as 6 other of the tracks. Like I said too it's a solid set of songs.
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