Let Yourself Go
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Free Music Review: I love this CD so much I have two copies
Hit: 5 Stars
I adore Kristin Chenoweth. I didn't quite know who she was until her short-lived NBC sitcom. It is because of that show that I purchased this CD. I listen to it a portion of it at least once a day.Kristin has such an amazing voice and she really shines on this album. When I first listened to the CD, I enjoyed the faster songs more than the slow ones. Then I liked the slow ones more. Now I just love it all.
"Let Yourself Go" is a fabulous song to wake yourself up and get moving. It has the pep and spirit that shines so well in Kristin's personality.
"If You Hadn't But You Did", at times my favorite song, starts out slow but gains speed quickly. In this song, you can hear Kristin's ability to get into a character using only her voice.
"How Long Has This Been Going On" and "My Funny Valentine" really show off Kristin's voice and her ability to hit those high notes and hold them.
"Hangin' Around With You", a duet with Seinfeld's Jason Alexander, is a pleasant surprise. It's fun to listen to Kristin and Jason argue, they both have fabulous comedic timing.
"The Girl In 14G" is amazing. Here, Kristin showcases the range of her voice and shows off her opera training.
In "I'll Tell the Man in the Street", "I'm A Stranger Here Myself", and "Nobody Else But Me", Kristin captures her characters so well.
"Nobody's Heart Belongs To Me/ Why Can't I?" at first seemed like a slow boring song to me, but I found myself loving it. This song just packs so much emotion and can sometimes bring a tear to my eye. I could listen to it all day long.
"Should I Be Sweet?" is hilarious. Kristin switches her mood back and forth so easily.
"Just An Ordinary Guy", "Goin' To the Dance With You", "On A Turquiose Cloud", and "You'll Never Know" continue the flow of the album, bouncing from sweet and slow to peppy to a song merely showcasing Kristin's abilities to a beautiful love song.
"Daddy" is a great song to end the CD with. It is so much fun to listen and sing along with. Kristin sings it so well, and I always find myself listening to it twice.
Overall, this CD is fabulous. In the booklet in the CD, Kristin tells John Lahr of the New Yorker, "The one thing I don't want to do is sing a song because it's pretty. I want to tell a story. I want people to be transformed in the song." With her first solo CD, Kristin achieves this goal and so much more.
I can not reccomend it enthusiastically enough. Buy this CD! :)
Free Music Review: Kristin does it again!
Hit: 5 Stars
I think she is just amazing! She has such a fantastic, recognizable voice and a VERY wide range! She is sooo unbelievably talented! I love this CD! Some of the best music was written before the nineteen fifties. In 'Let Yourself Go' she did a great job, and immeadiately draws you in. 'If you hadn't, but you did' was superb and very funny. She seems to have a connection with whoever's listening, she never sings a song that is just pretty, she tells a story. Which is fantastic because there aren't very many of those singers around anymore! I love 'How Long has this been Going on'. She has a very beautiful voice, which really shows in ballads. She never fades, she keeps the ballad strong but not too forceful, if I make sense! 'My funny Valentine' was charming and the music is really beautiful! 'Hanging around with you' was great! I think that number is fantastic and very quirky. They both do really well here, and I think how they twisted their own CD story into the song. 'The Girl in 14G' lets kristin do her opera (jawdroppingly well) and jazz (great too!) It is a very clever song. 'I'll tell the man in the street' is again a very beautiful light ballad. Kristin's voice is really honest and beautiful there. The music is also great! 'I'm a Stranger here Myself'is actually one of my favorites! I love the songa and the way she sings it! 'Nobody else but me' was really great! I love that song! 'Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me' has such beautiful lyrics and speaks out to a lot of women! Because we have all felt like that before. 'Should I be Sweet' was great as Kristin switched from sweet and gentle to hot personas. She does it so well too! 'Just an ordinary guy' was really good! She sang it so well, not overdoing it (which can be annoying when other people do it!) or giving too little! Just perfect! 'Goin' to the dance with you' was a very nice ballad, and she as always does well! 'On a Turquise Cloud' was so dreamy and beautiful! I love that song so much! 'You'll never know' I loved! The music, lyrics and singing! 'Daddy' was great, it started off fantastically and ended very well too! Overall I love this album, it is one of my favorites! And as you can probably tell am a HUGE Kristin Chenoweth fan! I loved her in 'You're a Good Man Charlie Brown' and 'Wicked' And when she sings opera she is outstanding! My favorite track is probably 'Let Yourself Go'! It is a brilliant song and really ... i don't know how to describe it! btw i am not pablo salame, i am his daughter!Free Music Review: Tonic for the Great Recession. This CD will have you smiling
Hit: 5 Stars
Once, on a very bad day I was sitting on the subway trying to distract myself with an audio book on MP3. Nothing helped and feeling worse and worse I gave up and clicked on Kristin Chenoweth's album Let Yourself Go.
Within five minutes my spirits were lifting. I wasn't delusional. This music just makes a person feel better. The band with its 1930s feel seems to say "Great Depression or no, we're gonna have a good time." Yep, those Depression era composers knew how to fight the blues. The title tune, Let Yourself Go will have you feeling, at least a little better, in minutes. Why aren't more pop artists singing it?
Chenoweth is a truly great Broadway singer but she's also such such a talented actress that You find yourself wondering about the the story that inspired each song. Hmmm one wonders, Hanging Around with You is from Stike Up the Band. Maybe its time I listened to a whole album from that show? What about How Long Has This been Going On? Time to order that DVD for Follow the Fleet. The Girl in 14-G? This one was written for Chenoweth and is based on her first NYC apartment. But it sounds like it's from a Broadway musical.
I am crazy about this album and listen to it often--not just when I'm sad. Its a nice long album but I do hope she plans to record. There are so few singers who focus on this kind of music. Chenoweth has a trained voice and once you have been listening to it for a while, you find yourself thinking about Julie Andrews, Streisand and yes, Beverly Sills. Chenoweth seems to have the same kind of infectious joie de vivre that Sills had.
Free Music Review: Not a bad track in the bunch......
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of Kristin Chenoweth ever since I had the privilege to see her as "Sally" in the final Broadway performance of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". There is a reason she won a Tony award for that role; this girl is amazing! Versatility is the name of the game on this excellent CD, a collection of mostly 30's and 40's songs, with a couple of newer tunes that sound as if they came right out of that era as well. The upbeat title track gets things off to a great start, complete with a tap-dance break from Kristin in the middle of it. She then displays her flair for comedy in the next track, "If You Hadn't, but You Did", before shifting into the lovely ballad, "How Long Has This Been Going On". And there you have the basic formula for the album; Kristin drifts in and out of the various styles effortlessly, sounding almost like the Miss Adelaide character from "Guys and Dolls" on one track, and then switching to a beautiful soprano sound on a slower ballad, and yet, the album never sounds disjointed. Everything flows together very nicely. The song that ties everything together, however, has got to be "The Girl in 14G". In 4 minutes, Kristin gets to be a comedian, an opera singer, (Wow!), and a scatting jazz singer. Also worth noting is "On a Turquoise Cloud", a very slow, wordless vocal exercise, that is just stunning. There really isn't a bad song in the entire album. (And just look at that smile on the CD's cover!) Here's hoping that we don't have to wait very long for the follow-up.
Free Music Review: Get yourself "Let Yourself Go"!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
One word immediately comes to mind when I contemplate Kristin Chenoweth's solo CD, "Let Yourself Go." That word is masterpiece.
For starters, this CD showcases Ms. Chenoweth's comic genius. Nobody - not even Dolores Gray, who premiered the song in 1951 - sings Comden and Green's dizzyingly hilarious "If" with such ease and panache:
IF I had not seen you take
Geraldine on the lake
In your flat bottomed skiff,
IF you were not found with Sue
With your arms around her bare midriff,
IF I had not seen you pen
Sexy letters to Gwen
In your own hieroglyph,
IF you had not left me home
When you had two seats for 'South Pacif'!
I'm gonna miss you, baby.
You were too darn prolif'!
Aaaah, what's the diff'?
And the laughs continue on subsequent tracks, particularly "Hanging Around With You" and "The Girl in 14G" (where you can hear Kristin as an ingénue, beatnik and coloratura simultaneously).
But there are equally precious moments on this CD when the wisecracking stops. Then we are treated to heart-tugging renditions of "My Funny Valentine" and "Nobody's Heart Belong to Me."
It is this multidimensional gift - her ability to make us laugh and sigh - that makes Kristin Chenoweth extraordinary. Listen to this CD and you will know the difference between a singer and an artist.