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Lisa Loeb, Cake, Pie and Vitriol Review By Wanda |
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Lisa Loeb: Cake and Pie (A&M Records)
Loeb embodies the worst kind of psuedo-intellectual chick-rock possible, complete with spoken lyrics that do not match the music (that's arty!), horrid overproduction and whiny coffee-shop folk-rock lines like "Maybe I am hiding in my own confusion. / Maybe we're just a picture in my head. / Maybe what if it could be the way I wish it really was/ Maybe I don't want to see it the way it really is." What? Every song features an insecure woman flailing on about how the relationship isn't going right, but of course she stays anyway, whining "We could still belong together/ and together is much better." In a feeble attempt to mask the mediocrity of this effort, each song drips with overproduction, full strings, and 14-tracks of overdubbing featuring Loeb backing herself up, but it's still not as good as the Partridge Family on a bad day. Dweezil Zappa plays guitar on most of the songs, but judging from his musical taste, that's not saying much. Each song credits an engineer, two assistant engineers, a producer, a stylist and the guy who tried to make her sound better with ProTools. It if took this much noodling with electronics it took to make Loeb sound this bad, what did it sound like to begin with? Cake and Pie is an insult to bad chick-rockers everywhere. If Loeb were on the Lilith Fair tour with Sarah McLachlan and Suzanne Vega, they would probably rip off her glasses, stomp them into the ground and beat the shit out of her. Enya might help. Honestly, I can't imagine who would like this record, but if you think you might, drive your car off a cliff. It will have the same effect. - Wanda |
I
hate Lisa Loeb. I hate her perky nose, her arty glasses, her annoying
voice, her stupid videos and pretty much everything else about her,
so it was no surprise that I hated this cd. But I tried to keep
an open mind and I made it through about eight tracks before I tried
to drive the car off a cliff just to stop the sound of her voice.
Luckily, my cd player has an "eject" button.