Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
|
Music CD Cover Artist: Keith Urban Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) CD Release Date: 2009-03-31 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks:
|
| New | New Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $9.54 | ||
| Used | Used Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $2.97 | ||
| Collectible | Collectible Usually ships in 1-2 business days | $10.00 |
Your purchase is protected by the A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantee. Amazon.com automatically transfers your payment to the merchant so you'll never need to pay a merchant directly. Amazon.com A-to-z Safe Buying Guarantee covers both the delivery of your item and its condition upon receipt.
Free Music Notes for Defying Gravity Album
Free Music Review: This is NOT... repeat NOT Country Music!!!!
Hit: 2 Stars
First of all it must be said that I very much like what Keith is capable of and I have been WAY impressed by the warmth, color, personality and talent displayed in his LIVE acoustic performances. Keith is no doubt a very talented artist of massive (and realized!) potential. Further I am all for stylistic liberties being taken within the country or Americana genres but in what alternate universe is Keith Urban's over-slickly produced boy band caterwauling even remotely considered "country music?!"
I have really tried to like this formulaic and crassly commercial pablum for the masses but I simply cannot get past the WAY overblown production which to me thoroughly obfuscates and drowns all the character of Keith's actual musical personality, talent and heart.
I have seen Keith playing an acoustic guitar and singing live and it was compelling, inspirational, and downright good in a way that drew a person in to enjoy his great vocals - which totally work at the organic level. And therein lies the problem with Keith's recordings: They are so overtly faceless and pop that they could be any flavor of the month pop idol. Not a country star or singer-songwriter (which Keith really is) of any lastingly meaningful resonance.
There is absolutely NOTHING here that makes this stand out against the myriad masses of other over-produced, slick, radio fodder pop idols out there in corporate radio land. This is so slick it is just bland and gutless. BOR-ING!
Any true lover of real organic heartfelt natural music (which country is surely supposed to be on some level?!) would be hard pressed to sit through the insipid entirety of this "look how perfectly sterile and bloodless we can make this music sound" record.
I am really anxiously awaiting the day that Keith makes an acoustically-oriented finger picked less audaciously arranged and ostentatiously produced record where his personal style, the song, and actual quality of his voice are allowed to shine through and inhabit the center of focus.
Keith; the get rich quick commercial juggernaut formula scheme has worked. You no longer need the money nor the media spotlight platform to bring attention to your work. Please take a tip from the vintage recordings of artists such as Loggins and Messina, Dan Fogelberg, early Eagles, James Taylor, and Neil Young (who are no doubt MAJOR influences!), and get some life, heart, blood and breath into your future recordings.