False Smiles - Amy Studt

Advantages: Genuine talent in song writing, catchy tunes, nice voice
Disadvantages: can get repetative, filled with songs that could have been left out

Amy Studt may sound like a familiar name, but I'm guessing it is one of those names that you just can't quite remember where you heard it from. Dubbed the UK's version of 'Avril Lavigne', Amy Studt is a UK singer/songwriter whose debut album 'False Smiles' was released in 2003 achieving Gold status, selling over 200,000 copies peaking at number 18 in the UK Album Chart. Her second album 'My Paper Made Men' was released in early 2008 to some critical ...
...Smiles' out and reminisce over this pop rock album. Can 'False Smiles' still appeal to an audience today or are new genres of Hip Hop and R&B taking over the music scene? **WHO IS Amy Studt? ** Born in July 1986, Amy Studt grew up in Bournemouth, where she has always been a passionate and enthusiastic musician, which led her to be able to sing, play piano and guitar, whilst having the musical score to write her own songs. This is her debut album ... Read review

Advantages: A few decent tracks...
Disadvantages: ...but most of them are of the other sort!

...an album that gives you false hope as to it’s quality but turns out to be a real let down as once you get beyond those few decent tracks, there is nothing of that quality to back them up, and the majority of the album seems like a teenager having a moan to a backing track. If you do want to listen to someone who really is hacked off at life in general, try Avril Lavigne or, even better, Alanis Morrisette. If you want tracks with great pop hooks and ...
...this. Heck, even Busted, for all their air hostess obsessions, at least don’t get this sulky about being dumped. If this were any other album, with a running time of 56 minutes and available for only £8.95 from Musica.co.uk, or £10.99 from Amazon to include the addition of “All I Wanna Do”, I’d be calling it pretty good value. Value for money is only good if you use the product to its’ full extent, rather than wanting to turn it off around half ... Read review

Advantages: Good to chill out to
Disadvantages: slightly repetitive

Amy Studt's debut album 'False Smiles' brings a real smile to my face whether I'm depressed or hyper! Amy Studt was built up as the UK's version of Avril Lavigne, i personally found this to be an insult to her talent as i don't particularly like Avril's style as it seems to have gone down after the first few songs. *Ducks lynching from Avril Lavigne fans! * Anyway Ok, I like this album because it's never failed to put me in i can do anything ...
...to dream! ;) ] Superficiality showing through here, I’m going to review the casing before we proceed to the hidden talent within ;) You can see that the front cover has a rebellious looking portrait picture of Amy, the rest of the album is white, back cover has the track list with a picture of a tatty blue dress on a hanger suspended in the air against a pure white background. The CD is white with a white rose on it, which looks as though it's started ... Read review

Advantages: Refreshing change to typical American pop girls!
Disadvantages: Certain bad songs, but good ones far outweight them!

Amy Studt… yet another young wannabe wanting to follow in Britney’s footsteps out of America. Yet upon second glance her music isn’t of the typical teenage pop genre that saw Britney and fellow American Christina rise to fame… oh no, there’s much more to Amy Studt than meets the eye. Just a Little Girl – her first single, seemingly an immature melodious song, I feel it’s not one of her best, elements of rock at times especially within the chorus, ...
...too little. (2/5) Misfit – her second single released in the UK, again elements of rock do spring up throughout, this song has a much more catchy rhythm, quite fast paced and very beguiling! Similar to the first song with the structure, starting off fairly quiet and then reaching a crescendo in the chorus, concerned with not fitting in and could teach us all a thing or two about how to act when we don’t fit in! (4/5) Under the Thumb – this is one ... Read review

Advantages: Easy listening, thought provoking lyrics
Disadvantages: couple of boring ballads

...to give her debut album False Smiles a listen. Pushing any pre-conceived ideas of "teen-scene" music to one side I was pleasantly surprised. It's one of those CD's that doesn't click until a few listens, then you just can't get it out of your system! Some of the songs have been co written by the likes of Gary Barlow, Cathy Dennis, Karen Poole (of Alisha's Attic). Here is my track by track review of False Smiles (released 30 June 2003) just a little ...
...track, which was Amy's first official release. It starts off very slowly and quietly and opens out into a catchy protest of how she want's to be taken seriously as her own person, and not just a young person. Throughout the song, it switches from the quiet easy paced melody to the harder rocky lyric and back again. I give this 3/5 misfit The current hit from Amy, sees her proclaiming her individuality and not following the herd. She says this was ... Read review