People can complain for days about how boring Jordin Sparks is, but the public should be thanking obsessive American Idol voters that we didn't wind up with runner-up Blake Lewis. Then again, winning isn't everything. Blake's loss hasn't prevented him from releasing his own full-length studio album, A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream). Unfortunately, it also hasn't resulted in him being shipped off to a deserted planet.
If it had, our world wouldn't be submitted to Heartbreak On Vinyl, an album so incredibly irritating that it makes Blake's rendition of Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name" sound heavenly. Just reading the song title "Superscratchavocalisticturntablelicious" is enough to induce cringes. It says a lot that this is the album's best track. In the hands of a more intriguing vocalist, it might actually be decent. But it's not.
"Left My Baby For You" might have had a chance of appealing to fans of the Black Eyed Peas latest work, but very few listeners are going to have the patience to sit through all five minutes. Hell, it's hard enough to stomach the consecutive hammer-on-the-head tracklist of mediocre dance tunes.
It's almost a relief when the album's lone ballad "The Point" begins. And when it doesn't appropriately build or take flight into the epic proportions its capable of? Well, that's when you start wishing Blake would help you see "the point" of listening to his album.
– Dewitt
you mean “Black Eyed Peas’ latest work”
Ok, I totally disagree with this post. The album may not be to everyone’s taste, but having just discovered his debut cd and this cd, I totally love these discs. Maybe the reviewer has a beef with Blake or his being a fav of [blank]. Honestly, if you like a mix of contemporary and 80’s dance/club music, the cd is good.