The Corrs
Talk On Corners

THE REVIEW

This album from 1998 follows the line of the previous one (1996) with a substantial difference: here only a mix of American pop and Irish music, in a blend that evokes the small to medium American provinces and the American countryside (as in the pop episodes of the first work). If you replace the American countryside with the Irish one, the effect is not so different (except in a few cases like "What can I do"). Only one instrumental track, "Paddy McCarthy", which precedes another unique instrumental track ("Rebel heart") from the following album.

Here, Andrea's beautiful voice also lends itself to the reinterpretations of Jimi Hendrix's "Little wing" and the dance of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams".

The well-written lyrics deserve a mention - as similarly happened in the previous album - along with other authors. In-depth analysis is not necessary, only "Queen of Hollywood" deserves some words: the story of a girl who, in order to nurture her dream of becoming famous, has to fight against the misunderstanding of her mother, her boyfriend, and her friends who "talk behind her back" ("talk on corners", an English (or Irish?) phrase that serves as the album's title). Her struggle for the dream works, but the flipside arrives too, like the loss of innocence. I had to struggle to understand the full meaning of the song, so I sought help from some site (a demonstration of humility).

From here come the great classics that join those of the album from two years later: "Only when I sleep", the aforementioned "What can I do", "So young", "Queen of Hollywood" indeed, and "I never loved you anyway" which, due to its strength, is destined to remain the most famous of the album.