Yet Another Year In America May 27, 2010
OK, now that I've admitted finally that Lea Michele is a talent, is there anything you guys want to tell TV-free me about her, or Rachel, or the show? What's she like as an actress? Does she need freeing from the theatah?
In the meantime, Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me" is digging in around 30, neither climbing nor falling much, while at 47 "Pray For You" by Jaron And The Long Road To Love seems also to be crossing from country to pop, at least in a minor way. The guy's obvious in his sarcasm, but he's more fun and less of a fuddy-duddy than Aldean or Turner, at least this song is.
Miley Cyrus "Can't Be Tamed": I feel a disconnect between song and singer, and between me and both, even though this is a team - Cyrus plus Armato & James - that's thrilled in the past. Catchy dance-pop, but the singing doesn't dance well with it. I hope that no one who looks at the supposedly provocative video claims Miley's growing up. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Glee Cast ft. Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Morrison "Dream On": The singers never find a way to be comfortable, heaving themselves up from one massive boulder to another. But the song itself rises to excitement, finally lifting them beyond their own exhaustion, and they hit the climactic falsetto. So this isn't the massacre I'd feared. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Glee Cast ft. Idina Menzel and Lea Michele "I Dreamed A Dream": Veteran show-singer Menzel sounds clear and characterless on this staid show tune, while relative newby Michele sounds tattered and pushy and passionate and almost makes this worth caring about. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Mike Posner "Cooler Than Me": So far, I can't get a reading on this guy. On "Drug Dealer Girl" his scratchy whisper might be haughty, sly, sad. I can't tell, but it's got something. On "Cooler Than Me" he just sounds absent. NO TICK.
In the meantime, Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me" is digging in around 30, neither climbing nor falling much, while at 47 "Pray For You" by Jaron And The Long Road To Love seems also to be crossing from country to pop, at least in a minor way. The guy's obvious in his sarcasm, but he's more fun and less of a fuddy-duddy than Aldean or Turner, at least this song is.
Miley Cyrus "Can't Be Tamed": I feel a disconnect between song and singer, and between me and both, even though this is a team - Cyrus plus Armato & James - that's thrilled in the past. Catchy dance-pop, but the singing doesn't dance well with it. I hope that no one who looks at the supposedly provocative video claims Miley's growing up. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Glee Cast ft. Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Morrison "Dream On": The singers never find a way to be comfortable, heaving themselves up from one massive boulder to another. But the song itself rises to excitement, finally lifting them beyond their own exhaustion, and they hit the climactic falsetto. So this isn't the massacre I'd feared. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Glee Cast ft. Idina Menzel and Lea Michele "I Dreamed A Dream": Veteran show-singer Menzel sounds clear and characterless on this staid show tune, while relative newby Michele sounds tattered and pushy and passionate and almost makes this worth caring about. BORDERLINE NONTICK.
Mike Posner "Cooler Than Me": So far, I can't get a reading on this guy. On "Drug Dealer Girl" his scratchy whisper might be haughty, sly, sad. I can't tell, but it's got something. On "Cooler Than Me" he just sounds absent. NO TICK.