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Old 4th February 2012, 03:53 AM
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NEXT LEVEL is great for keeping me awake when I have too much homework and need music with energy

With RnRC, which I only recently bought, I was really looking forward to it because I love her rock-style music and her more unique, experimental music. However - and this could've been because of the order of the songs - there seemed to be so many bland pop songs on that album! Even beautiful songs like BALLAD and You were... were brought down because they were placed after two songs that put me to sleep (Sunset and Meaning of Love). I thought there were some awesome stand-out tracks (microphone, countdown, last links, DLB, Lady Dynamite, Sexy Little Things), but, as an album, it just didn't work.

I'm looking forward to this new album. She named her first album after the divorce "Party Queen" - which surprised me (but not in a bad way), especially because, title-wise, it's the polar opposite of GUILTY (which is the album my thoughts first went to after hearing about the divorce and then how she was releasing a new album) - and I realized that I have absolutely no idea what to expect, and I love that