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If American Idol were a right-wing agenda, cornballs like Clay
Aiken and Taylor Hicks would be Bush and Cheney, and Katharine McPhee
would be an affable centrist: a little more square than you'd like, but
not hopeless. You could imagine McPhee following Kelly Clarkson's lead
and doing big-ass pop that makes both Middle America and big-city types
happy. But McPhee's debut doesn't render her halfway interesting. The
album's twenty-two songwriters mostly avoid schlock but can't come up
with an alternative, which makes ballads like "Better Off Alone" and
tepid, McPhunky dance pop such as "Do What You Do" just bland. The upbeat
"Love Story" and the decent ballad "Everywhere I Go" mix pop and R&B and
provide some relief, but most of Katharine McPhee is politics as usual.
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Track List
- Love Story
- Over It
- Open Toes
- Home
- Not Ur Girl
- Each Other
- Dangerous
- Ordinary World
- Do What You Do
- Better Off Alone
- Neglected
- Everywhere I Go
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