Title: Back To What?
Review: I was intrigued by this concept album and bought it on its strength. I'm sad to say that although there are some fun moments on the album where everything gels nicely, mostly it feels overbloated and surprisingly, a bit directionless.Christina mixes in some old sounds and horns to conjure memories of the past, but never goes far enough. She stops short at conjuring the innocent fun and musicality of teh time. Instead she samples which I find a bit shallow. All the songs definately sound of this era and not of the past. Add in the trite pean to fans "Thank You" and the cloying "The Right Man" along with "Save Me FromMyself" and you begin to see the half-hearted effort in actually paying respect to the past and building upon it.I applaud the idea (and wish it was done more often) but the execution on this album fails to live up to expectations.
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