YOU CALL THAT MUSIC? Music Review: Brooke's debut a dud (AP)
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By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 20, 12:34 PM ET
Brooke Hogan, "Undiscovered" (SoBe)
If Mandy Moore took a wrong turn down an alley and got in a dust up with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the resulting melee might sound an awful lot like Brooke Hogan's debut album, "Undiscovered," a poor release of shrill coming-of-age tunes.
It's mostly pop/hip-hop ear candy backed by forgettable urban software-beats with little savvy at hand to salvage things. To be fair, Hogan (of the famed Hulkamania brood) can sing in spurts, lest you believe this is all packaging around her ample curves.
But those moments are fleeting, her vocal range too narrow and her tone all too nasal on most track.
"About Us," featuring the real deal Paul Wall, is a passable song that features more Wall than Hogan. It's a minimalist hook-driven soulful turn with a heavy bass end. To believe Hogan here, the haters' gossip just must end! Because "they" don't know "about us." And there's your musical drama, which doesn't get much thicker throughout.
Most of this album consists of a whiny-sounding Hogan emerging from some cocoon of repression. Canned beats abound as Hogan sings of her beautiful transformation into a young woman on, what else, "Beautiful Transformation."
"I've suddenly evolved from nothing at all to somewhat ladylike/ My clothes began to fit and jeans they hug my hips to catch the young boys' eyes," she sings, setting women's lib back at least two dozen years. "Nothing" to "something" thanks to flesh? Yipes!
Hogan is best on the down-tempo "For A Moment," but her solid vocal effort here is hidden behind a poor arrangement that slathers on a ton of electro-claps, where a stripped down real guitar and drum kit would have worked perfect.
-- Check out last night's SNH RAPID FIRE MUSIC NOTES for more music updates.
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By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer Fri Oct 20, 12:34 PM ET
Brooke Hogan, "Undiscovered" (SoBe)
If Mandy Moore took a wrong turn down an alley and got in a dust up with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the resulting melee might sound an awful lot like Brooke Hogan's debut album, "Undiscovered," a poor release of shrill coming-of-age tunes.
It's mostly pop/hip-hop ear candy backed by forgettable urban software-beats with little savvy at hand to salvage things. To be fair, Hogan (of the famed Hulkamania brood) can sing in spurts, lest you believe this is all packaging around her ample curves.
But those moments are fleeting, her vocal range too narrow and her tone all too nasal on most track.
"About Us," featuring the real deal Paul Wall, is a passable song that features more Wall than Hogan. It's a minimalist hook-driven soulful turn with a heavy bass end. To believe Hogan here, the haters' gossip just must end! Because "they" don't know "about us." And there's your musical drama, which doesn't get much thicker throughout.
Most of this album consists of a whiny-sounding Hogan emerging from some cocoon of repression. Canned beats abound as Hogan sings of her beautiful transformation into a young woman on, what else, "Beautiful Transformation."
"I've suddenly evolved from nothing at all to somewhat ladylike/ My clothes began to fit and jeans they hug my hips to catch the young boys' eyes," she sings, setting women's lib back at least two dozen years. "Nothing" to "something" thanks to flesh? Yipes!
Hogan is best on the down-tempo "For A Moment," but her solid vocal effort here is hidden behind a poor arrangement that slathers on a ton of electro-claps, where a stripped down real guitar and drum kit would have worked perfect.
-- Check out last night's SNH RAPID FIRE MUSIC NOTES for more music updates.
Check out SNH's daily updates for the latest pro wrestling, mixed martial arts and music news and commentary, we've got live PPV and TV coverage on WWE, TNA, UFC, Pride, IFL, etc., concert reviews, CD and DVD reviews, "Funk's Corner" by Dory Funk Jr., "The Half Guarded Truth" by Michael Coughlin, "As I See It" by Bob Magee, radio recaps of The Dr. Keith~! Show, Ultimate Fighter episode recaps by Erin Bucknell of MMACalifornia.net, press releases plus so much more! Thank you as always for your support.
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