Title: Lemons
Product review: Initially seduced by the breezy exuberance of Invincible Summer, k.d. lang's homage to the California sound, I soon grew to dislike the majority of these eleven overdone tracks. Her sense of fun is camp, which elevates two good songs, "Summerfling" and "It's Happening with You," and she lifts up the simple-minded "Simple" by the remarkable power of her voice. Yet rarely has a significant gift been squandered regularly on substandard material. (Call it Whitney Houston disease.) Lang hasn't had a collection of first rate songs since Absolute Torch `n' Twang in 1989. Her ode to joy is weighted by philosophical musing, as evidenced by this quote, courtesy of Camus(!), that frames the inner sleeve: "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." "In this world of lemons, baby, you're lemonade," courtesy of lang herself, is more to the point.
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