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

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:39

This is rubbish.

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:39

Depechay Mode-style bippy-boppy synths.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:40

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

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:40

Last track - Sticks and Stones.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:40

Electric piano.

by Guest Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:41

"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 26 May 2020 - 19:42

Ballard.

Sad one. sad yes

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:42

Oh give it a rest now, Roberts.

The self-pitying schtick is getting a bit tiresome.

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:43

Trying to be like "Beautiful" by Christina Aguieliararara.

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:44

I'm surprised this wasn't a single.

by Guest Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:44

It is ova.

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:45

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 26 May 2020 - 19:46

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 26 May 2020 - 19:46

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

by Guest Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:49

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

Has dated though, oh well.

by Nightjar Tue 26 May 2020 - 19:52

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 26 May 2020 - 19:59

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 26 May 2020 - 20:06

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 26 May 2020 - 21:21

Let me know when voting has been completed.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri 29 Oct 2021 - 10:06

Being re-released on the vinyls for 10th anniversary

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

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