Blurring the Edges

Jagged Little Pill Her intensely personal lyrics grabbed the headlines, but the bravest departure here is the way Morissette's unique vocals stand naked in the mix--a technique that drives home the painful honesty of tracks like "Right Through You," "Forgiven," and "All I Really Want." Sheryl Crow ...	Shine With Shine, fans awaiting a new Meredith Brooks CD are in for a letdown, but not because the music isn't great. The trouble here is that Shine is really Bad Bad One, Brooks' 2002 release, reshuffled--song for song everything is the same, only the new title track takes prominence ...	Pieces of You No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: JEWELTitle: PIECES OF YOUStreet Release Date: 02/28/1995	This Fire After a promising but overlooked debut album, Paula Cole kept the bills paid with a fateful stint as Peter Gabriel's vocal foil on his 1994 Secret World tour. Gabriel's immersion in richly theatrical, primal vocals only magnified Cole's already fevered attack; it's obvious that h...	Left of the Middle A cross between Alanis Morissette and Kylie Minogue, you couldn't engineer a more likely late '90s pop star than Natalie Imbrugila if you tried. Blessed with a stunning bone structure and a passable voice, Australian soap star Imbruglia and producer Phil Thornally turned Ednaswap...
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie When Alanis Morissette visited Mother India in 1997, she gained new composure and, in a state of numinous bliss, wrote 17 songs for Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, each suffused with the search for enlightenment and self-knowledge. To the likely dismay of many fans, Morissett...	Deconstruction [ENHANCED CD] When Meredith Brooks broke through with her 1997 single "Bitch," you could pretty much cut the irony with a knife: a song that was meant to show off her multidimensionality (as well as that of all women) instead became a song that defined her, and in many ways limited her. With D...	Bad Bad One	One of the Boys Ever since the November 2007 digital release of the hilarious, zeitgeist-capturing single "Ur So Gay," Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Katy Perry has been wowing critics and fans alike (including the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna) with her big voice, sassy attitude, and feist...	Under Rug Swept With all the attention Alanis Morissette's career has garnered, it's startling to think that on the release of her third studio CD she has yet to see her 28th birthday. Under Rug Swept finds Morissette in the producer's role, a position she seems more comfortable with at this sta...

You mitch!
I think Meredith Brooks has a great voice with just the right amount of edginess to it (not full-out Alanis Morissette edge, but a softer, subtler on edge). I think that Meredith Brooks's most famous song, that word we all dread being called, is pure genius. I think Meredith Brooks is trying to take the hurtfulness out of the B-word. She shows how we all have so many different facets (she's simultaneously a mother, a goddess, a lover, and a bitch), and if you try to use the catch-all word bitch against us, well, then let us women take back that word and render it trite and innocuous. (Unfortunately, women use it mercilessly against each other--watch "Mean Girls" to observe some great social commentary about the destructiveness of verbal abuse.) I've often joked that we women should try to get the word blend, "mitch" into the vernacular (male bitch=mitch) and make it an equal opportunity word, but I suppose two wrongs don't make a right. Brilliant song. Not too familiar with the rest of the album, but look forward to youtubing those songs.

Amazing!
This cd is Just Amazing! Meredith has a great voice, All of her songs rock, she is very talented!! If u havent got this cd it is a shame, Its DEF. Worth every penny.

Meredith Rocks
It's to bad that people feel the way they do about her one song named "Bitch"; It's great!!! Her expression of her life is the best within all her songs. Listen, try to look deeper then just one word that may offend you. Her CD is awesome, Buy it.

Not her best....
I picked up this album because of the hit single "Bitch" which is catchy, and is very empowering to women. But unfortunately, "Bitch" and also the song "Birthday" are pretty much the highlights of the album. Other ok songs are "What would Happen" which talks about her want of a married man, "Somedays" because it talks about how somdays just suck and somedays are really good. But the rest of the songs are a bit of a let-down, such as "I Need" and "Stop". Overall, the album is alright, but I would suggest just using iTunes to download the few good songs off of the album instead of spending $15.00 to get 4 songs that you like.

This jagged little pill's a mickey..
The #1 single "Biotch" rocketed Meredith Brooks into the American consciousness and left her with the image of angry alterna-chick. Listening to the album it's clear though that "angry" is just not Meredith's style. She may have adopted much of Alanis Morisette's musical style of gnashing guitars, but there's not a whole lot of confessional songwriting going on here (other than a few notable exceptions). Essentially, this is crunchy pop-rock with some angsty window-dressing here and there. HIGHLIGHTS: "Biotch" is the absolute highlight of the package as Brooks asks her lover to take her moodiness as part of the package ("I'm your hell, I'm your dream/I'm nothing in between/You know you wouldn't want it any other way"). "Watched you Fall" is a peak into Brooks' soul as she accepts responsibility for a failed relationship. ("I was blind to ya/Was lying to you/Said I love you but I'm laughing/When you crawl"). "What Would Happen" finds her lusting after a married man. ("What would happen if we kissed/Would your tongue slip past my lips/Would you run away, would you stay/Or would I melt into you?") "Birthday" may be the 2nd best song here as Brooks takes on the persona of the desperate date...the woman promising too much too soon ("Let's trade numbers/Let's trade beepers/So I can find you any place"). It's nicely creepy. LOWS: Unfortunately, one of the album's worst tracks leads off. "I Need" is just a laundry list of things Brooks claims she "needs" while also claiming "see how easy I am to please". So what's she need? "a diet that works","Cool friends", and "a Mercedes 280SL" among other things. Blech. "Somedays" is the oft-told tale of a bad day that's been done so much better by others. It's no "Mama Said" [Shirelles], "Bad Day" [Fuel]...it's not even a "Turndown Day" [Cyrkle]. "Wash my Hands" finds Brooks shrieking that she's done dying for the past. The forced emotion of her voice is really grating here. BOTTOM LINE: Take the angst of Alanis, add some hip-hop drum loops, and you have this album from Meredith Brooks. While it's not a complete travesty, most of this ends up being well-produced craft that's ultimately empty.