{"id":9210,"date":"2008-02-06T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9210"},"modified":"2015-10-23T12:56:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:56:47","slug":"considering-stacie-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/06\/considering-stacie-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Stacie Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty minutes into an interview that has covered the creative process, motivation for songwriting, and the difference between recording and performing live, Rutherford NJ-based singer songwriter Stacie Rose turns the tables. She asks me a question: &#8220;So, do you <i>like<\/i> the new record, by the way?&#8221; I&#8217;m so taken aback that I ask her to repeat the question.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/images\/stacie_rose.jpg\" alt=\"stacie_rose\" width=\"229\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/> In an age where music is so often product, where market research dictates the &#8220;artistic&#8221; direction in which an artist must go, when performers are surrounded by sycophants who help them believe they can do no wrong, it&#8217;s refreshing almost beyond description to be presented with such a question. Stacie Rose&#8217;s second CD, the self-released <i>Shadow &amp; Splendor<\/i> makes little pretense to be something it is not. Stylistically Rose is somewhat all over the map: a bit of C&amp;W influence here, a nod to current pop styles, some acoustic folk-rock there.<\/p>\n<p>Yet throughout, her vision is unerring: musically the album goes everywhere Stacie Rose wants it to, and nowhere she doesn&#8217;t. As both artist and producer, she has made decisions that she felt benefited the overall project. For example, while she&#8217;s a fine guitarist, she ceded duties to her bandmates for the album, allowing her to concentrate on vocals and the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>The album opener, &#8220;Consider Me,&#8221; is the most commercially viable of the fourteen tunes, and that&#8217;s saying something. Rose allows the chorus lyrics to skitter over the melody in a hypnotic, alluring melisma. And the sole cover (a reinvention of U2&#8217;s &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Day&#8221;) can make one forget the original for the moment. &#8220;Okay&#8221; kicks off perilously close to teen pop, but then the curtain opens to reveal a catchy, fully formed rock\/pop song that ranks among the album&#8217;s many highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Stacie, I do like the album. And thank you for asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty minutes into an interview that has covered the creative process, motivation for songwriting, and the difference between recording and performing live, Rutherford NJ-based singer songwriter Stacie Rose turns the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,51],"tags":[2467],"class_list":["post-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-pop","tag-stacie-rose","cat-41-id","cat-51-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9211,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}