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Re-visiting Andrea Corr's Ten Feet High 09-May-2024 22:27:45
| CorrsClub Time: 12-Oct-2024 09:45:41 |
So I was cleaning up my collection of digital albums and realised I had bought TFH a while ago without really listening to it and decided to listen to it from start to finish tonight while working. A few songs I knew (Ten Feet High, Shame on You - probably just these two), the rest I discovered or re-discovered while listening.
Well, that was a great electro/pop album. I really liked it a lot and thought Andrea really did put out an excellent number, be it lyrically, with songs that are typical of her story-telling, or musically, where I feel she explored genres of music and topics she truly loved but could never really fully explore as part of The Corrs (I assume). Ten Feet High is particularly excellent imo - not easy to sing too, quite sophisticated. I liked Shame on You a lot - the lyrics are pretty good and the chorus especially catchy (although I find the acoustic guitar / AOL version superior to the album version musically speaking).
Champagne from a straw was catchy and kind of biting in its story-telling, yet a bit tragic, a bit like Ideal World, and Take me I'm Yours/Hello Boys have a similar vibe, hard electro-pop that I dig in every way.
For a first solo album especially, I found it particularly good. I'm trying to remember what else was being released in 2007 (Madonna "Confession on a dancefloor" - another excellent album - comes to mind, I suppose Gwen Stefani, Dolores O'riordan both also released solo debuts at the same time - both good in my opinion, and Lady Gaga was getting quite big with whatever album she put out at the time. Very good year for female artists, funny that so many previously lead singers from bands went solo on the same year or about the same time lol).
Back to TFH, I rewatched the AOL sessions. I vaguely remember seeing it posted (probably on the now sadly defunct Reference Corrs), and finding the acoustic gig amazing and loving it. I probably didn't have the money to buy the CD at the time or it wasn't being distributed in my small home town lol, but just having these videos was magical - and I found the same magic watching them again now (even if all that is left is, again, very degraded videos in term of quality). I love hearing Andrea singing these songs with just Anto's guitar, it brought them to another level.
Going a bit back in time on Corrsclub, I saw criticism on TFH that were a little bit harsh in my opinion - everything from the songs, to the lyrics/music video (fair enough), but also Andrea's looks...must be excruciating to be constantly scrutinized for your looks like that. I thought some of the criticism were really a bit tough. In my view, she made a very good solo album, found her own sound, her own stories to tell. It's a shame and apparent the record company dropped the ball on that one - it had a lot of potential even with the harsh competition of the time. There was a space for Andrea to take, and it never happened, but I'm still glad she made that album - it's really worth a listen, even 17 years later!
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That looked like a fantastic concert! Now this is an audience worth playing for. What an atmosphere. Sadly I couldn't find the AOL version one but that's a great throwback, kudos to whoever captured this on video!
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