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Rating: BELLO BELLO BELLO BELLO BELLO!! MASTODONTIC! MAS-TO-DON-TIC!!
Tell me one thing, why is it that every time Lennox releases an album, it must always be of epic beauty? This woman is terrifying! Her voice has something divine, it's not about high tones or high notes (for example, Houston, before she wore out her vocal cords, was better) it's about GOD! Her vocal cords were shaped by the creator of the universe! God has something to do with it! They can't be "normal" vocal cords. The best part is that besides the voice... she has everything else too! Incredible charisma! Unmistakable style, astonishing chameleon-like abilities, hypnotic facial expressions, innate sensuality (in "DIVA" she was the woman of my dreams! Forget those mannequin showgirls! Bleaaaak), a stage animal (there were endless comparisons with David Bowie, but with all due respect to the duke... she's better!), a tantalizing ambiguity (read the previous parenthesis), and moreover, she is surrounded by amazing musicians! Musicians who can play as God commands, elegant music, of inestimable class, in short... sometimes I wonder: does Annie Lennox belong to this world? Of course not! Because this world, especially today, is full of awful music! Today's pop is terrible! Today's musicians, especially those on MTV, are awful! But sometimes, amidst these cheap superstars, manufactured to make money with no TRUE artistic value, she emerges... the priestess of pop! The DIVA that has never been a true DIVA, in short... a musician with real guts!
"Songs Of Mass Destruction" is an excellent new confirmation after that extraordinary album "Bare", there hasn't been the slightest artistic decline! Nothing, nada! She was born talented and will die talented.
11 songs from various styles, particularly pop, rock, and soul, accompanied by Annie's astonishing voice, oscillate between moments meant for dancing and the usual (but not at all repetitive) moments of sentimental melodies where Lennox's alien vocal cords become the absolute protagonists.
I went wild with "Love Is Blind" and its drum breaks at the end, climbed the walls with the hilarious "Ghost In My Machine", had 18 centimeters of goosebumps after listening to "Lost" and "Through The Glass Darkly", and felt a nostalgic chill of the Eurythmics with the electronic "Coloured Bedspread", in this case, there's definitely more class (no offense, but Eurythmics' electro pop has worn me out a bit). In short... there's little to review here, in the sense that it's pointless to do a musical analysis song by song, it’s unnecessary. It’s an amazing album! Period.
Do you like classy music? Are you not someone who clings to chart hits? Do you think pop isn't just made of trivial things? Well... buy this album, lock yourself at home for an hour, and get emotional!
The best singer ever...
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Dark Road (03:47)
It’s a dark road
And a dark way that leads to my house
And the word says
you’re never gonna find me there, oh no
I’ve got an open door
It didn’t get there by itself
There’s a feelin’
But you’re not feelin’ it at all
There’s a meaning
But you’re not listening anymore
I look at that open road
I’m gonna walk there by myself…
And if you catch me I might try to run away
You know I can’t be here too long
And if you let me I might try to make you stay
Seems you never realize a good thing til it’s gone…
Maybe I’m still searchin’ but I don’t know what it means
All the fires of destruction are still burnin’ in my dreams
There’s no water that can wash away this longin’ to come clean...
I can’t find the joy within my soul
It’s just sadness takin’ hold
I wanna come in from the cold
And make myself renewed again
It takes strength to live this way
The same old madness every day
I wanna kick these blues away
I wanna learn to live again
It’s a dark road
And a dark way that leads to my house
And the word says
That you’re never gonna find me there, oh no
I’ve got an open door
It didn’t get there by itself
It didn’t get there by itself…
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