{"id":9332,"date":"2009-04-04T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2015-10-23T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:10:44","slug":"album-review-movie-star-kiss-starting-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/04\/album-review-movie-star-kiss-starting-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Movie Star Kiss — Starting Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Starting Over<\/i> kicked off, this reviewer expected good things. “Getaway” opens with a good, solid beat coupled with driving guitars. The vocals had a bit of that over-enunciated 2000s quality, but that was forgivable. The chorus was strong, too; plenty of melody, incorporating the best of what was called “new rock” in the 90s. The slow bridge actually added dimension to the track. So far, so good.<\/p>\n

Many albums are sequenced with the single right up front, but it’s reasonable to expect that the quality of the music won’t take a dive after those three minutes. Movie Star Kiss avoids that dive, but not by a wide margin. The remaining tracks edge ever-so-slightly toward facelessness. Interesting tidbits do emerge, including judicious use of wah-wah and a Zeppelin-like riff (“Let it Ride”). Movie Star Kiss draws influences from the rockier end of the power pop spectrum (say, Cheap Trick). This band — essentially a reconstituted Supercrush — wants to rock it, old-school style.<\/p>\n

Song titles are a bit problematic. Yes, it’s true that there are a finite number of titles out there, but too many of these call to mind well-known (yet unrelated) songs from other artists (Billy Joel’s “Big Shot,” “Let it Ride” by BTO, John Lennon’s “Starting Over”). And “Teenage Fantasy,” well, that phrase is a working example of clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Still, listeners could do a lot worse in 2007. And things are looking up: “Self Destructed,” a new track on the group’s MySpace page, is stronger than most of this album; it’s on a par with “Getaway.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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