The Future is Electric Youth," Debbie Gibson declares on the title cut of her second album, and the music certainly reflects her optimism and enthusiasm. Electric Youth sounds so bright and giddy that one could easily dismiss Debbie – along with Tiffany and Rick Astley – as just a kinder; gentler teen idol for the waning Eighties.

That would be a mistake, if only because Gibson writes her...

Used to be the most risqué thing about Debbie Gibson was how in "Lost in Your Eyes" you could hear her sing "I get weak in the glands/Isn't this what's called romance?" when really she meant "glance." But "Losin' Myself," on her surprising new Body Mind Soul, is another story – what Deb does here, Madonna only talks about on Erotica in a voice too frozen to perk up a lonely sailor....