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Love Lindsay, Want More

Dave Kong | San Francisco | 11/03/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I've been reading the bad reviews of this album and don't understand them. I first heard Everything U R as the title to the short-lived series Maybe It's Me on the WB, and fell in love with the song. I bought the album to get that track and found much of it to be very enjoyable. The songs that are best are the ones where she doesn't try to sound like other artists. The duet with Paul McCartney is cool. Pretty impressive for someone so young. Her website has mentioned an upcoming album for over a year, and I am eager to hear her next effort."

NOT BUBBLEGUM POP

molly smith | eugene, OR. United States | 04/06/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"trust me, i dont like bubblegum pop and this is definately not that. I like this album cause it is not annoyingly catchy, it is soulful, it has great songs, i love her voice, its just all around really good. its away from your average todays pop music. i liked it so much i bought it for my friend and she plays it all the time and loves it. just give it a listen."

Good singer... bad songwriter

A. Hoy | Rosedale, MD United States | 05/04/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Lindsay Pagano clearly has a lot of ability, but she's not served well by the pathetic songwriting for this album. The tunes are OK for the most part, but the lyrics are incredibly sophomoric, the kind of thing you'd expect from a sheltered 15-year-old. If Lindsay wrote the songs, I would give this album a higher rating (because she's so young), but since they're by someone who is a professional songwriter it's inexcusable. In the world of pop, some songs are so catchy you can get past the terrible lyrics -- on this album, those songs are Everything U R, Burning in Me, and sometimes Number 1 (With A Bullet) and Amazing High. So Bad is a fitting title, despite being by the legendary Paul McCartney. The rest of the songs are just intolerable 95% of the time. In short, I'm glad I bought this CD cheap second hand. I'll be watching for more stuff from Lindsay Pagano in the future, because I can tell that she'll really go places if she lays off the breathy soprano (she just can't handle it), and she keeps resisting the homogenized pseudo-Soul/R&B sound that seems to afflict other young female singers. So Lindsay, find yourself a better songwriter, play to your strengths, and for heaven's sake, stop writing your liner dedications in Instant Message-speke. It just makes you look stupid."