Music : America's Sweetheart
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724359145921
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Sales Rank: 85287
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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"america's Sweetheart" is Courtney's Eagerly Anticipated Solo Debut, the Follow-up to Hole's Two Gold Certified Major Label Releases, 1994's Classic "Live Through This" and 1998's Grammy Award-nominated "Celebrity Skin". The Album Is, in the Main Part, Written by Love, with Assistance from Linda Perry, the Ex Four Non Blonde Whose Writing Has Launched the Likes of Pink and Christina Aguilera Into the Stratosphere. "America's Sweetheart" is the Most Exhilarating Album of her Career to Date. It's Pure and Unadulterated, Raw and Relentless, Smart, Brassy, Candid and Uncompromising - Just What You'd Expect from Ms Love. The Album Rocks in a Big Way but is Choc-full of Great Tunes, Particularly the Album's Second Single "Hold on to Me" and the Epic "Sunset Strip".
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I Became A Fan Of Courtney Love Very Late In Her Career [2005 To Be Exact]. I'd Only Heard Of Courtney And Seen Photos Of Her But Never Knew Who She Was Or Where She Came From. I Was Sitting Online One Night Listening To Launch Radio And "Celebrity Skin" By "Hole" Was One Of The Songs Being Played And I Absolutley Loved It, I Quickly Purchased The "Celebrity Skin" Album And Listened To It Through And Through And Fell In Love With Courtney's Voice. Later On I Found This Peice An At First It Had To Grow On Me, I Was Expecting A "Celebrity Skin" Sound But I Had To Undestand Times Had Changed Along With The Fact That She'd Gone Solo. The Songs I Play Out Are "Hold On To Me" "Almost Golden" "Hello" "I'd Do Anything" And "Never Gonna Be The Same"
I Noticed Alot Of The 1 Star Ratings And Some Of The Comments That Were Made About This Record. I Don't Understand, Guess I Had To Be Fan Much Longer To Understand. All I Know Is I Like The Album And The Songs I Mentioned Are On My Ipod. I Don't Like All The Songs But I'm Sure After Listening To The Same Songs Over And Over And Wanting Something Different I'll Adopt Another Song From The Album To Play Over And Over. Wink!
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Forget the Courtney you thought you knew. She's not coming back. Instead you get a Linda Perry-(over)produced record filled with guitar goo, bad vocals and embarrassingly juvenile lyrics. The songwriting has went downhill since the 1994 masterpiece "Live Through This" and she's not even upset about it. The last time we've heard from her, it was on the glossy "Celebrity Skin". A lot has changed since then: her vocals have been tortured by her own excesses and all those parties, drugs, alcohol and rocking-out lifestyle had a huge effect on her mindset. Glitter fades in the morning, as she would tell ya. In "Life Despite God", a personal favorite, she can barely get the words out of her mouth. "Were you jerking off to her? Were you jerking off to me?" she screams at the top of her voice in "Sunset Strip", leaving you filled with doubt and dare.
She exchanged the murderville of "Pretty On The Inside" for a shiny Californian extravaganza, but nothing sounds right. Still, in its own twisted way, "America's Sweetheart" remains majestic. No matter who wrote the lyrics this time around, they satisfied the Courtney-obsessed minority (I'm standing right here). It's all been said before, but it doesn't hurt to hear it one more time. The riffs seem like recycled ones, but they still manage to soothe. She came back to sex up Julian Casablancas, save us from not-so-lucid dreams about Hollywood and burn those anorexic magazines in our closet. She's not even aware that her battlefield ... Read More
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Having heard hole and never really been that big of fan, I randomly got this cd since it was used and cheap. I have to say this honest to god is a great cd and I'm thinking maybe I missed something from never giving hole a chance ( i saw them open for manson once and back in lollapalooza 95 i think). There's so much baggage that comes with her name alone that it's enough to frighten off most people. But listen to the sample amazon gives you and ignore all the tabloid nonsense. I Hate to have her constanstly in Kurt's shadow. Unlike Yoko to John, Courtney to Kurt actually has the talent to stand on her own. And that's something to say.
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I love this album, you can hear every emotion in Courtney's voice from rage to pleasure to past pain... Sing on Miss World.
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