{"id":41583,"date":"2009-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/about-you-now-ep\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T00:00:00","slug":"about-you-now-ep","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/about-you-now-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"About You Now (EP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">Summer, I thought you knew what good music was, courtesy of Jack Black in <i>School Of Rock<\/i>. You remember Summer, right? The straight-laced little priss who kept Black in check has gone on to her own show (iCarly) on the Disney Channel and has now released an EP, demonstrating her singing ability. Like fellow tween star Ashley Tisdale (of \u201cThe Suite Life Of Zach And Cody\u201d and the <i>High School Musical <\/i>franchise), these Disney stars are making a concentrated effort to redefine themselves as \u201cnot just\u201d a Disney icon for the eight- to thirteen-year-old market.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">As it turns out, Cosgrove is tackling non-tween material, trying to convince her adult listeners she\u2019s not as young as you might think. She wants to go back in time to a previous point in her relationship with the subject in the disc\u2019s title track since she \u201cknows how I feel about you now.\u201d She sings about how girls \u201cdig rejection\u201d and how she\u2019d rather \u201crock, that\u2019s how I roll\u201d in \u201cFYI.\u201d Finally, in the third original track on this EP, she spouts on and on about how \u201cyou can take the rock out of the roll but you can\u2019t take the party out of the girl\u201d in \u201cParty Girl.\u201d Finally, in \u201cStay My Baby,\u201d she speculates about being in a long distance relationship when \u201cshe\u2019s back at school,\u201d which I infer as being college? So, Cosgrove is tackling adult problems while singing to a tween audience. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">Part of Cosgrove\u2019s problem is that she only has four songs on this five song release. Instead of having a stronger effort, with at least five new songs, Cosgrove either didn\u2019t want to miss a deadline or didn\u2019t have access to any other material. The last track is a filler remix of the lead single. I guess if she had to go this route, it is the least objectionable of the songs she could have chosen. The other part of Cosgrove\u2019s problem is that her vocals can\u2019t mask the lack of originality in the music behind her. The backing band is boring, so you\u2019re left with only Cosgrove\u2019s vocals to support this release. She\u2019s okay, but she doesn\u2019t \u2013 at least on this release \u2013 have the vocal intensity of a Whitney Houston or Tina Turner, not that Cosgrove is trying to be either. Both of those artists, though, bleed their soul into their material. Cosgrove skates along the surface and lets her weak lyrics float the boat.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt\">For a different perspective, consider that my twelve-year-old daughter loved this release. I listened to it five times in a row as a penance. I survived. Cosgrove probably has some talent buried in this material, but it\u2019s too deep to be able to ascertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8423],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-41583","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-miranda-cosgrove","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41583","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41583"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}