Vanessa Carlton
Be Not Nobody

THE REVIEW

Be Not Nobody, debut album with which Vanessa Carlton became famous. Or at least she enjoyed a few months of mediocre fame with "A Thousand Miles" which I remember was played ten thousand times a day on MTV and I titled it as my song of the 3rd-grade exams.
After this clarification that I believe might not interest you much, I would like to move on to the description of the album released in the summer of 2002.

As soon as you insert it into the player, I can assure you that your expression will change dramatically, and I mean for the worse, because if the songs are not listened to carefully you might label them "all the same," due to her passion for the piano and violins (instruments we are not used to hearing often in the songs currently broadcast to us), her slow rhythms, and her voice that seems like that of a little girl entering the early stages of puberty.
However, this album is not without merit; in fact, it can justifiably earn a passing mark because, if you listen carefully, you can distinguish one song from another but, above all, you can appreciate the sweet and harmonious music paired with her voice, which, even though it leaves much to be desired, is used well (and I am not contradicting myself now, because a voice can be beautiful, but if the person is not capable of using it, it is worth nothing).

I've had this for a few months now, and I haven't found any song that truly disgusts me, also because it is easy-listening music for everyone; the only thing is that in the long run, it might leave you indifferent due to its somewhat unvarying style.
The songs I prefer from this album are "Paradise," "A Thousand Miles," and "Rinse" because they manage to convey many emotions that songs from other genres I adore (like metal) unfortunately fail to make me feel.
Anyway, I consider Carlton a mediocre artist; certainly, she will add very little to the history of music, she will end up forgotten due to the saturation of the music market, but I would not define her songs as pre-planned or "commercial" because they differ from the existing music on the market.

In conclusion, I would like to specify that this is a CD you will listen to night and day, and if I were you, I wouldn't buy the original but would download it from the internet (cough cough cough...)

Happy listening.