Emma Blackery
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Are Lindsay Lohan's albums any good? [Album Club S2E1]
🕑 Added 2021-10-26 00:41:13 +0000 UTCPlease listen to the albums (links below!) and get involved in the comments! This series is a Patreon-exclusive so please do take advantage of that! Let me know if you enjoy the albums, or if you have a different opinion to me, and let me know what albums you'd like me to review in the future! This series may end up on my main channel at a later date but for now I'd love for it to be just us. So please interact!!
Speak: https://spoti.fi/3pDe9XA
A Little More Personal (RAW): https://spoti.fi/3nmCttS
SPOILERS BELOW! Despite all of the controversies surrounding Lindsay Lohan, particularly during the mid-late 2000s, she released two albums in two years. Are they well-written, or are they the rushed product of Disney star growing up in front of the world? I have always been fascinated by Lindsay and her career, and I hope the video going up on my main channel will convince you that she could have had a very successful music career! As for the albums we got? Well...
SPEAK: 7.5/10
Highlights: Over, Rumours, Nobody 'Til You, Symptoms Of You, Disconnected, To Know Your Name
Weak points: Speak, Very Last Moment In Time
Overall an album split into two personalities that don't always communicate perfectly, but a perfect sonic time capsule for young girls in their early teens during the mid-2000s. The album campaign was let down by the release schedule, with Over - the strongest song on the album - only released as a second single, which was not followed up on until six months later with a song (First) that has little relevance to the rest of the album.
A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL (RAW): 6.5/10
Highlights: Confessions, Black Hole, My Innocence, If It's Alright, A Beautiful Life
Weak points: I Want You To Want Me, Edge of Seventeen, A Little More Personal, Fastlane
An album marred with disappointing moments that are as weak as the highlights are strong. When the album is good, it's great. When it's weak, it's jarring. The two covers on the album add nothing positive to the experience when the concept of the album was supposed to be based around her relationship with her father. Black Hole should have been a single.
Comments
Jamie Morris
So I've never really listened to any of Lohan's songs before, so I'll listen to them as I find them on YT. First one that popped up was Rumors. Catchy tune. Weird watching her act all "sexy" in the video when I know her best as the cute little twins in The Parent Trap. Lol. I liked the tune. She sounds good in this song. Next Confessions of a Broken Heart - Very sad. Video was well done. I liked knowing the kid is her sister in the video. I'm glad to know as an adult she's able to have her dad in her life. I can't even imagine growing up without my dad; he means so much to me. You can feel her pain in this song. <3 Over - Oh, the teen angst this song embodies. Lol. I can see how this would have been a big success back when it was released. I've seen the guy in this video before; he played one of the sons (Chris Halliwell) on Charmed (original series). A bit distracting when I keep thinking Chris!!! watching this video! Lol. X) Her voice is lovely in this song. First - Love the guitar and beat at the start of this song. I can't believe she did a Herbie Love Bug movie and I never saw it, but I was working 50-60 hour weeks back in the mid 2000's and had outgrown those movies anyway (I was 33-34 in 2004). The song makes good background music. I found myself not really listening to it. YT literally did not suggest any more of her songs at this point, so I searched for Edge of 17. You're right; it's an odd choice to ditch that iconic guitar intro to this song. Since this is a song I know well, it makes it obvious she has some skill as a singer, but clearly isn't on Stevie Nicks level of singing. It's really not bad, though. She does a fairly good job with the song. I mean, you blew How Soon Is Now? out of the water when you covered it, Emma; that was truly fantastic! I can't say Lohan did the same with Edge of 17, or even close, but it's still enjoyable to listen to. (Side note: The best cover of any Stevie Nicks song I've ever heard is this cute college kid named Lanie Gardner singing Dreams on her dorm bed. She's adorable singing it and she absolutely nails Stevie's voice and style. There's only one or two spots in the song where you can clearly hear that it's not Stevie singing, but it's really impressive how close Gardner comes.) Anyway, I have work in the morning so I'll stop here. This was fun! Who knew Lindsay could sing? (Probably everyone except me. Lol) X) Thanks for the video, Emma! : )
Julieanne
Thanks for the help accessing the video! What a part of Lindsay’s life I wasn’t aware of before! I’m inclined to agree with your opinions on the album. Having so much context to her life at the time as well that you’ve given was a good way to understand it. Here’s hoping for her future music she takes a miley Cyrus attitude and just does whatever she wants. The early 2000s definitely had a sound, so sad to know what her and so many other young pop artists went through however. Looking forward to the video essay for more background!
Emma Blackery
Thank you for listening and getting involved! I really do like them!
Emma Blackery
Thank you for getting involved! It definitely had some great songs on it but was very flawed. I think they lost their way in terms of trying to carve her an identity whilst trying to rush it out due to her being the big thing
Cathnan
I've listened to her now, and I'm glad I finally did. I agree with you Emma her second album is weaker. And it maybe sounds too similar to the first one. But I do like both of them. And I fully get what you meant by early 2000s sound :D
Emma Shearer
Worked fine both on PC and mobile for me, weird. Hope they can access it now!!
Emma Blackery
https://vimeo.com/638869342/5a33cf47b9
Emma Blackery
I'll message you the link! It's working fine for me on desktop but not mobile for some reason
Chris Whitmer
Her first album is such a rock pop album. Every song has guitars and then her second album is almost a carbon copy. She coulda stood out more if one of all of those songs stuck out more but her producers kinda just made it all sound like everything else. But they made a good chunk of cash off of those albums so yeah? Makes me miss all the rock influenced pop tho. haha.
Julieanne
Cannot get the video to work :o keeps saying that the video doesn’t exist when I click the link
Emma Blackery
Please get involved in the comments when you choose to listen
Dalton Davis
Missed the album club 💜
Bee Singleton
i’ll deffo get involved as soon as i get chance!! x
