Nellie McKay - Get Away from Me
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Artist: Nellie McKayEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- David
- Manhattan Avenue
- Sari
- Ding Dong
- Baby Watch Your Back
- The Dog Song
- Waiter
- I Wanna Get Married
- Change The World
- It's A Pose
- Toto Dies
- Won't U Please B Nice
- Inner Peace
- Suitcase Song
- Work Song
- Clonie
- Respectable
- Really
Free Music Notes for Get Away from Me
Free Music Review: Skip this one - buy her newer albums instead.
Hit: 1 Stars
I'm not quite sure what happened on this album. McKay or the record label must have gotten a strange and very bad idea that adding a component of rap music to other genres will make the music popular.
I guess you can't blame whoever thought this up since it seems to have been successful with acts like Linkin Park or Red Hot Chili Peppers and so on. So, you can understand where they got this idea. But it doesn't work here and it ruins this album. There is still some of the "rapping" in the newer albums but it's not as prominent and its blended in better.
There were other aspects of this album that I found unpalatable. I've forgotten exactly what, but I'm not going to dig the album up and put myself through having to listen to it again for the sake of writing a fully detailed review. The music itself is also better in the newer albums.
Bottom line, even though I wanted to like this, I couldn't stand listening to this album. I'd recommend against purchasing this album and go straight to the other Nellie McKay albums.
Get Away from Me Poster
Like Rufus Wainwright, Nellie McKay was born about thirty years too late. She may look like a winsome teenager on the cover of "Get Away From Me," but she's got the soul and grit of Ethel Merman, mincing her way through drawing room dramas and musical conflagrations with more subtlety, wit, and better personal politics than Eminen, but with similar results--most stunningly on "Sari," where she perfectly melds the ire of Missy Elliot with the goofiness of Moon Unit Zappa on this edgy rap song. McKay quickly changes personas becoming a torchy siren on her paean to domesticity "I Wanna Get Married," wearing her irony as lightly--and as transparently--as a see-through negligee. At nineteen, McKay has only scratched the surface of what she's capable of, veering from witty jazz, to edgy cabaret, to brash confessionals, and taking the listener on what certainly will prove to be a long, eccentric ride. --Jaan UhelszkiAlternative Rock Music CDs
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