Meaningful and Meaningless (Robyn - Robyn)

Member Name: blondgem

Product:	Robyn - Robyn
Date:	12/03/08 (69 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: some good tracks

Disadvantages: bad tracks actually spoil the album

Robyn, the new talent from Sweden to hit the UK, or has she? Robyn comes from a theatric family and we first saw her in 1995 when she made her first album. Most will remember her as the voice behind Show Me Love in 1997, however over the past 12 months she had several hit singles, and I think majority of us have to be guilty of singing along to some of her tracks.

I bought the album late last year and have never really listened to it a great deal until now. Purchasing it purely because of the Hit track, With Every Little Heartbeat, which was one of my favourite tracks of 2007 and I still like it to this day. She has been lucky in some ways because the radio stations have played it and promoted however like some artists they get over killed and what could be considered a good track in the first place turns into something that you dislike and brings you to despair after they have played it for the tenth time in one day.

The album itself is too bad, but it is by far not the best album that I have purchased recently. Having 15 tracks on it, I would only say that half of these if half actually appeal to me. The tracks that have been released are by far the best on the album and are a pleasure to listen to, however there is also a lot of rubbish on the album to which I tend to listen to half way through and then press skip.

Its very varied in the types of songs which are on there and some remind me of the likes of Madonna in her early years which are great but some remind me of the like of Betty Boo in the early nineties, a little bit childish and they don't fit into the musc of today, and are obviously the ones that I press skip on.

I find it really disappointing too with the lyrics, you have some good tracks which have meaningful lyrics to them which everyone can seem to relate to possibly at some point during their life and then you get the complete opposite, with a track that makes no sense in which she singing about and is completely meaningless. There are also a couple of tracks with eplicit lyrics and sometimes you can associate yourself with what the artist is saying but I feel its just a rant on her part, and completely ruin the album.

Overall, its half and half and I have found myself burning several tracks to a CD purely to cut the rubbish out, you can clearly tell which songs will be released in later months, by the quality, as I'm afraid some sound as if they have been thrown together, have no thought put into them and childish in some aspects. I still think of that track however as one of my favourites for 2007, however the album is one of the worst.

Track Listing

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Konichiwa Bitches
3. Cobrastyle
4. Handle Me
5. Bum Like You
6. Be Mine
7. With Every Heartbeat
8. Who's That Girl
9. Bionic WOman
10. Crash and Burn Girl
11. Robotboy
12. Eclipse
13. Should Have Known
14. Any Time You Like

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