Personally, I envy Linda Perry and her writing collaborators;
\nit’s not easy to write cohesive music in a drunken stupor. What’s
\nmore envious is that she could sing without slurring in the same
\nstate, which is pretty beyond human.<\/p>\n
Whether the drunk part is true or not,
\nIn Flight<\/i> sure doesn’t live up to its name. Produced by Bill
\nBottrell, the former lead vocalist for the 4 Non Blondes (hits
\nincluding “Dear Mr. President” and “What’s Up”) steps into the solo
\nplatform with suprisingly laid-back material which is almost
\ndisappointing. There is almost no background and the mood changes
\nvery slightly here and there from beginning to end.<\/p>\n
What you hear mostly is a powerful voice kinda rumbling in the
\nbackground which never shows its true colors. “In My Dreams” shows
\nshe still has technique and style but goes on a continuous repeat
\nwithout going anywhere. “Freeway” gives a little more powerwise,
\nbut it
\nstops<\/i> in the middle of the song. “Uninvited” is exactly the
\nsame.<\/p>\n
Counting her chicks before they hatch, “Success” is a little
\npathetic in subject matter but still a successful clone of the two
\ntracks before it. Everything up to here is very DARK and
\nDEPRESSING; like the day I heard about Pavarotti’s no-high-C night
\nin Carnegie Hall.
\nNot<\/i> something you listen to in the summer (though residents
\nin the Southern Hemisphere might want to pick this up).<\/p>\n
By this time I’m having a hard time distinguishing the tracks,
\nbut out pops “Life In A Bottle” which actually shows some
\ndetermination, albeit determination to become more depressed than
\nshe actually is. The first track with single potential. Then comes
\n“Fill Me Up”, a clone of “What’s Up” (hint: the last word of each
\ntitle), a little tinkered to fit her new mood.<\/p>\n
From here on, it’s *really* hard to tell one track from another.
\n“Knock Me Out” featuring Grace Slick would be a good down track if
\nit wasn’t surrounded with other good down tracks. Still no change.
\n“Too Deep” is exactly that; I have yet to hear “Taken” after twenty
\nruns of this record, and I’m beginning to think that it’s simply
\nnot there. “Fruitloop Daydream” takes those stupid commericals one
\nstep further and it sounds like Cliff Stoll’s description of
\nHalloween in San Francisco in
\nThe Cuckoo’s Egg<\/i> (good book … but I
\nam<\/i> a music critic).<\/p>\n
At last, the end of the album!!! She finally tells you what’s
\nwrong in “Machine Man”, and it is not pretty. This man is not
\npresent only in her life, which makes it all the more empathic a
\ntrack. The mood carries to “In Flight” which is where we leave her
\nall alone in her solo debut; or rather she leaves us, to fly away
\nin the only song here that carries any hint of hope.<\/p>\n
This review would’ve recieved a higher rating if I didn’t know
\nwhat she sounded like as part of a band. Stripped of her three
\nnon-blond friends, she’s nervous, forced, and awkward. Though she
\ntries not to show her insecurity, it’s too obvious, and she’s not
\nfooling me when she says it’s the new her. Though the sound itself
\nis more sophisticated from the fluffy pop stuff, why kill technique
\nto compensate? Alcohol is a renowned muse, but don’t let it get in
\nthe way of projecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5797],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-35691","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-linda-perry","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35691","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=35691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35691"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35691"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}