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Title: Quality pop
Review: Ronan Keating's debute doesn't re-innovate pop music, but it still is a very enjoyable and stylish sample of it. 'Ronan' is much better and consists far more grown-up music than the average Boyzone-album. Of course most of these songs are love songs, but they are not as stroppy and the texts have more contents than you could expect from the singer of a boyband. The major charm of this album is that Keating doesn't copy Boyzone-songs or other styles, or that he doesn't use all the cliché's and the tricks possible to make a pop song. He tries to find his own, adult style, in which he succeeds quite well by combining nice pop music with traditional Irish elements. At that, this album contains two really outstanding songs, "Life is a Rollercoaster", a quite original song at that, plus "When You Say Nothing at All", a beautiful ballad. Also "Heal Me" is very nice. Ronan Keating has also a really nice voice and hey, without wanting to sound pathetic: he's got the looks! :-)
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