Title: Introspective and Lyrical - per as usual
Product review: Suzanne Vega's first song that caught my attention, and charmed me, was "Calypso." And what particularly hooked me was how she managed to take the story of the Sea Nymph Calypso (a slightly-alarming one-dimensional fantasy dreamed up by Greek males) into a song about a strong, proud, self-aware woman who controls her own destiny.That same gently self-aware and self-confident femininity comes across on this album. The most interesting song in this vein is "New York is a Woman." It's a love song to a city Suzanne Vega is describing as both supremely confident and supremely feminine. At least that's how I hear the song.I also like the delicately-crafted beauty of the music itself. Some of the songs are particularly lyrical. At work, I found myself humming phrases from "Ludlow Street" and "Edith Wharton's Lovely Figurines."So long as you enjoy the singer-songwriter genre, and enjoy Suzanne Vega's distinctive voice, you should really enjoy this album.
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