Soul Baring Storytelling - If you don t know Amanda Marshall listen to the sound clip samples here at Amazon, or look her up on YouTube, there are several videos available, you ll know if you like her right away. For me... I love her music, I have been waiting for years for a follow up album to this CD. In Everybody s got a Story Amanda marshall tells several from romantic (Red Magic Marker, Love is My Witness Marry Me),friendship and betrayal (Colleen, Brand new Beau) to dealing with bigotry (Double Agent), to a hilaious look at the consequence of partying a bit to hard in the 21st Century (Sunday Morning After)to other challenges in life ( Witness, Dizzy and Inside the tornado) .One of my favorite hooks from AM is her use of the parentheical thought. Here s an example from Sunday Morning After.I remember yellin Hey DJ, Jack of all you might like this song.(That s when it all gets hazy)Now my clothes are sellin on E-Bay and I don t know what I m gonna put on. (Where were my friends to save me?)So here s the deal,Amanda Marshall is clever talented and beautiful, and it all shines through on this CD. what more could you want from a musician and an album?
She totally lost it. Wanna be Britney - Loved her last 2 albums and reluctantly bought it out of pity to be honest. I was even surprised to see that her producer was Billy Mann whom I liked his own albums, but was expecting something better with this combination of talent. Sadly, these guys tried too hard to sound like a some dumb teeny clone. I hope she can redeem herself in future.
Hit & miss collection - I own her earlier (and better) CDs. There are some goodies on here that made it onto my MP3 but the rest, well, they re space takers until I get to the songs I like if I m playing the actual CD. I hesitate to name the songs I like/dislike because of the previous reviews of this song rocks! and then for the same song later total bomb!. Her earlier CDs however, are well worth owning.
Still a very good CD - This disc has gotten quite a bit of flack for moving away from Amanda s sound on her first two CD s and moving towards a sound that is easier to sell to the mainstream. I think it is unjustified, who wants to listen to the same sounding songs disc after disc.Here he voice is in fine form. Sunday Morning After, is a catchy pop tune that will have you still singing it hours afterword. Colleen and Marry Me also stand out. For me though the highlight is without a doubt Sunday Morning After. I can t ever remember a song about a drunken one-nighter coming in such a catchy, fun and funny package.
Absolute garbage? - I usually try to avoid reviewing an item unless I have something positive to say about it, but in this case I m making an exception to warn others. While I can t say for sure that you ll find this CD to be as bad as I think it is, please understand that I am an Amanda Marshall fan. I think her two other albums are excellent, but this CD is so bad that after just a few plays I think it will end up in the trash can. I was hoping some of the tunes would catch on after a few listenings, but it didn t work. Save your money for something with better potential for a positive outcome.