Advantages: Exceptional songwriting and original songs Disadvantages: Possibly tries to cover too much musical territory and therefore lacks cohesion.
...subtle irony of 'I Wanna Get Married' with its slow jazzy rhythm and sarcastic lines like: 'I Wanna Get Married that's why I was born'. Similarly 'Manhattan Avenue' with its warm vocal, neat piano accompaniment and lazy drum rhythm, sounds like something Ella might have sung in some downtown smoke filled bar back in '53, but like all the tracks on the album, this is an original penned by Nellie herself. The impressive mock interpretation of languorous ... ...be If you go I'll get your dough - So won't you please be nice If you run I'll pull a gun - Give me head or you'll be dead Salute the flag or I'll call you a fag - Oh won't you please be nice" More smooth jazz cynicism and cutting commentary about the less pleasant aspects of human nature are present in the final soothing ballad 'Really' that brings the album to gentle finale: "I don't know why - I'm such a sh** I realise this doesn't help a bit ...
Zmugzy 20.02.2009 (21.02.2009)
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