The track is a bustling pop-rock song bolstered by a clangy guitar riff and searing synth line.
You’d think that with an album title like Speak, Lohan would actually have something to say.
The musical backdrop is so predictable that it doesn’t allow Downey a single fold to hide his voice behind.
The album can be divided into three separate parts: modern, retro, and somewhere in between.
Free Yourself is a smattering of everything that’s going on in mainstream R&B right now.
So what made them think they could get away with a follow-up?
We are all destined to spend a lifetime being held hostage by Beyoncé’s gyrations in the name of Jesus.
Eminem’s weakest moments are always the ones in which he feels the need to apologize.
The album is a great stocking-stuffer for the avid Seal fan.
All the guitars on Palookaville (when they show up) sound like Top Gun Kenny Loggins.
David Byrne and company truly had their fingers on the metronomic pulse of modern culture.
Luckily for Rufus Wainwright, George W. Bush has won a second term.
My Kind of World is unlikely to turn Amber into an album artist.
The New Danger is more a collage than a collective statement.
Poe Little Rich Girl is proof positive that the world may indeed be coming to an end.
Where Our Love Grows will undoubtedly bolster Swing Out Sister’s status as a cult coffeehouse favorite.
The album is filled with radio-ready pop songs that are so slick and overproduced that the personality is virtually polished right off.
It seems politics has become an unavoidable pop fixture.
Astronaut doesn’t necessarily know whether it wants to be Duran Duran ’83 or Duran Duran ’93.
Ray Ray features Saadiq’s signature fusion of sturdy programmed beats, strings, vintage soul melodies, and live guitars.
Harvey has never struck me as an explicitly political artist, but her lyrics are vague enough to welcome multiple interpretations.