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Title: More Overdone Emo Wailing
Review: Angela Aki's claim to fame is her half-and-half heritage, which allows her to screech her cliched, trite lyrics about the same old relationship/feeling/love topics in two languages. In Japan, banging on a piano and tonelessly hollering in Japanese is good enough for a few months' fame, Angela shamelessly exploits her whiteness to score points with a country still obsessed with ANYTHING American/Western. In the US, she wouldn't rate a small-town karaoke club, but in Japan, knowing English and Japanese makes for serious sales at the ticket office.This entire CD is forgettable and bears no repetition. I returned my rented copy immediately after the CD finished and I wanted to write to the music company and demand compensation for the wasted time.In the US, we already have Tori Amos, who sings and plays MUCH better than Angela. I suppose it's better for the US if she STAYS over here.Odious. Simply odious.
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