The Corrs
Unplugged

THE REVIEW

A PROVOCATION:

12 years ago, under the banner of ‘Boop7’, I reviewed the entire first discography of the Corrs (up to ‘In Blue’, the album of ‘Breathless’) dismissing it by defining it as full of nice songs and nothing more.

The group of the 3 sisters and the 1 brother, Andrea Sharon Caroline and Jim, one of the few family-formed groups in the history of Pop music, had from the first album, ‘Forgiven, Not Forgotten’ (1996), to ‘In Blue’ (2000) produced songs where the distinction between Irish music and Pop music was evident depending on the tracks (except in the last one where the songs were almost all Pop – except the instrumental ‘Rebel Heart’ [not included in the review] – which seemed to be from an American metropolis).

After 12 years, I go a bit further, defining the ‘Unplugged’ (for Mtv) as their best album of that production and the best track overall (reaching to ‘Would you be happier?’ of the ‘Best of’ from 2001), ‘No frontiers’ by an Irish Folk-Pop singer, Mary Black (with words by a famous artist from those parts, Jimmy MacCarthy), interpreted (I didn’t know) by Sharon and Caroline (the violinist and the drummer) (thanks to the video I noticed this).

In short, the two backing vocalist sisters have beaten the seductive voice of Andrea (but not the beauty – although Sharon has remained lovely and Caroline just before 2010 had, in my eyes, gained a bit of ground).

The rest doesn’t interest me, in my opinion, not being interesting anymore after 2001: but having come to a concert in 2004 in my city, Genoa, fills me with pride. It seemed like a city forgotten by Pop music, mine.