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Michelle Branch – “Sooner or Later”
Michelle Branch’s first country single as a solo artist—after splitting with former BFF and The Wreckers cohort Jessica Harp—finds her doing her best impression of Michelle Branch.
There is little doubt in the mind of this observer that Branch’s conversion to country music is a commercially driven and carefully calculated occurrence, and “Sooner or Later” [...] -
Whitney Duncan – “The Bed That You Made”
Songwriters: Whitney Duncan, Hillary Lindsay, and John Shanks
Whitney Duncan has all the ingredients to be a star – stellar looks, a good voice, some attitude and overall marketability. Unfortunately, her first single “When I Said I Would” didn’t really play up to her strengths, but rather drowned them in an overly loud production. Luckily, [...] -
Jessica Simpson – “Pray Out Loud”
Though gossip mongers and tabloids of late have been focusing on Jessica Simpson’s alleged weight gain, there is another, more important issue which needs to be brought into the public eye, and that’s the sheer lameness of her latest single, “Pray Out Loud.”
First things first, it seems that Simpson—who began her musical career as [...]
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