May 11, 2008

nothing...nothing...

...and then suddenly two at once, or maybe even three. LeAnn Rimes' single "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine" is already a few weeks old, and sort of a gimme—it's as good as you'd suspect it might be, which is plenty. As a voice, Julianne Hough can scarcely compete (who could?); indeed, she seems to be a professional ballroom dancer from that TV show who has decided to be a country singer — wtf? — and as the latter she's new and alive and happy to be a Deana Carter manqué, which makes "That Song In My Head" somehow more satisfying as the summer starts to rise here in the Valley, plus there's that video with breakdancers on the pier — wtf pt deux! — leaving us on the right side of bemused. But not as delighted as you will be with this Emily West person, a little gawky and plucky and vivacious and with a fuller voice than Hough but not nearly as authoritative as Rimes which is sort of the point for this song "Rocks In Your Shoes" and she sort of sidesteps the overwritten lyrics in the verse and rides the melody because she knows the chorus is coming and it is! — and is is as irresistible as summer itself.

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