Re: Nicola Roberts ‎– Cinderella's Eyes (2011)

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:39 pm

This is rubbish.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:39 pm

Depechay Mode-style bippy-boppy synths.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 26, 2020 7:40 pm

"I've got bigger large family of small passerine birds." Kenneth

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 26, 2020 7:40 pm

Last track - Sticks and Stones.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 26, 2020 7:40 pm

Electric piano.

by Guest Tue May 26, 2020 7:41 pm

"Called me a rude ginger b*tch and say I bought bigger bananashake

"

She could have bought something bigger than those couldn't she?

by Guest Tue May 26, 2020 7:42 pm

Ballard.

Sad one. sad yes

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:42 pm

Oh give it a rest now, Roberts.

The self-pitying schtick is getting a bit tiresome.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:43 pm

Trying to be like "Beautiful" by Christina Aguieliararara.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:44 pm

I'm surprised this wasn't a single.

by Guest Tue May 26, 2020 7:44 pm

It is ova.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:45 pm

Nightjar wrote:I'm surprised this wasn't a single.

It could've'd mopped up on the angsty teenage girls demographic/market.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 26, 2020 7:46 pm

It is over.

That was an album that started off entertainingly but started to become quite wearing by the second half. It had some decent tunes and she has a voice that is more than capable of doing its job.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 26, 2020 7:46 pm

I shall give it three stars, as it did a decent job of what it was trying to do.

by Guest Tue May 26, 2020 7:49 pm

I thought it was great, one of the best pop albums of the last decade.

Has dated though, oh well.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:52 pm

It's hard to assess stuff like this.

Lot's of money thrown at it by the record company, lots of well-payed songwriters and producers hired, lots of cash splurged on promotion...

About £50 spent on the videos.

Anyway, it wasn't hateful or even remotely offensively bad.

It was a product designed to showcase a reasonably good, young singer by means of various, suspect, albeit painfully conspicuous tactics.

An emotional arc of self-pity, narcissism, defiance and finally redemption.

That said...

golirra

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 7:59 pm

The best thing I can say is that they didn't mess about with her vocals in post-production.

That's not actually insignificant.

She doesn't have the best voice of all time but she can obviously sing.

That said, I remember that when I met and subsequently moved into a flat with my two fellow art students in Bounds Green in '99 I one night discovered (some soul classic was on, er... the radio?) that both had astonishing '90s R&B-type singing voices.

I was at once pleasantly astonished and quite dispirited.

There are a million girls and women across the whole world who have amazing voices, but they don't have that serious an ambition to go down that career path or have no opportunity to do so.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 8:06 pm

This is mad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_and_Stones_(Nicola_Roberts_song)

It's longer and more involved than a Wikipedia entry about a major world city or Helmut Kohl.

Or something.

by Nightjar Tue May 26, 2020 9:21 pm

Let me know when voting has been completed.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Oct 29, 2021 10:06 am

Being re-released on the vinyls for 10th anniversary

Nicola Roberts ‎– Cinderella's Eyes (2011) - Page 7 Deluxe-mock

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