In Korea, she’s advertised as the next Mariah Carey. I found
\nthis so irritating, I had to go out and get the album; and true to
\nmy “drooling Mariah Carey fan” form, I’m smug to admit that Jordan
\nHill won’t be stimulating any digestive glands save that for the
\nulcer-responsible.<\/p>\n
Save a couple of tracks, there is nothing special about the
\nalbum. Her squishy-husky vocal technique is similar to Toni
\nBraxton’s, save the fact that it seems to be devoid of all emotion
\n(at least with Braxton, her voice’s mood changes in every song).
\nIt’s downright overdramatic … in a bad way.<\/p>\n
Everyone from Whitney Houston (high notes) to Roberta Flack
\n(pianissimo) to, yes, La Carey Mariah (note attack and
\nimprovisation), is imitated shamelessly; this lack of originality
\nis fatal in today’s Divadom. Many people sing along to divas (trust
\nme, heheh) and Jordan Hill is simply another karaoke mike bearer.
\nOnly luckier.<\/p>\n
When I first heard “Unbreak My Heart”, my head rang with a very
\nsimilar song, “I Don’t Wanna Cry”. But it was different enough for
\nme to eventually accept it. Similar didn’t-I-hear-that-song-before
\nsituations occur frequently; “I Just Had To Hear Your Voice” is
\nvery close to Celine Dion’s “Next Plane Out.” However, Hill’s
\nblatant pretending does not measure up to Dion’s emotion-well
\nperformance. It’s so boring, I can almost believe that it doesn’t
\nhave a bridge section at all.<\/p>\n
All the midtempo tracks are completely without character. Even
\nafter five listenings, I can’t distinguish one from the other; they
\nall sound like “For The Love Of You”. Except the very last track, a
\ndance remix of the first track, there are no all-out dance numbers;
\nballads and midtempo all the way, each artfully cloned from the
\nprevious. With six different producers, I can’t imagine where they
\ngot this excess coherence; it’s almost impossible. Then again,
\n“almost” isn’t absolute.<\/p>\n
But there are exactly two good tracks which are single
\nreleaseable. “Remember Me This Way” sounds like something David
\nFoster wrote for Whitney Houston, but since Hill’s primary template
\nis Houston, it works out. The other track is the aforementioned
\ndance remix, a spirited “For The Love Of You”. Like a respectable
\n90’s diva, she has re-recorded the main vocals and added
\nappropriate power choruses to add that shmaltz atmosphere Europeans
\nare always producing. My advice: dump the LP version.<\/p>\n
Now, I love divas. If the artist is female, has at least three
\noctaves and has sold a couple of million LPs, I tend to fall for
\nit. But Hill sounds more like a demo singer than a goddess; you get
\nused to the tunes and even hum along, but she will never get to do
\nthe requisite Hot Shot Debuts, pack in Tokyo Dome, and
\nsell<\/i> promos without some major revamps and artistic
\nresponsibility. In other words, be the first Jordan Hill; not the
\nnext Mariah Carey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5768],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-35654","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jordan-hill","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35654"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35654"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}