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CD Name: Artist: Melissa Etheridge Label: Uni/Island Ordering Information: Order from 
Amazon.com Track Listing 1. Lover Please 2. The Prison 3. Walking On Water 4. Down To One 5. Goodnight 6. It's Only Me 7. I Want To Be In Love 8. Please Forgive Me 9. The Different 10. Heal Me
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a Review by Anne Deming
I’ve always been a huge fan of Melissa Ethridge; she’s one of those musical geniuses
I feel compelled to place on an artistic pedestal to worship for the duration of my existence
here on earth, but sadly…she has fallen off. SKIN was released on July 10th and I had it
blaring wildly in my car disc changer not 36 hours later.
My initial response was happiness
because I felt the familiar, yet far from repetitious, acoustic rock rhythms flying through the air…
but then she started to sing. The dark and eloquently sensual side of her songwriting is
blatantly absent from her recent release. The songs are littered with self-pity and sadness
minus the poetry that can convince a listener to empathize with an artist. She seems
stuck in a certain phraseology, mixing promising songs with pedestrian thoughts and
tiresome cliches. There is, however, a glorious piece of music on the album called
“The Different” which is so far from the expected that it’s hard to match the sound
with the voice sneaking through the speakers. Melissa seems to achieve what the
album could, and should, have been with “The Different” by melding vocal effects,
electronic drums and funky strumming into a classic, yet innovative sound.
Unfortunately, the rest of the CD offers only a glimpse of the powerhouse vocals,
meticulous guitar work and lyrical beauty I have come to expect from a true
Posted on July 16, 2001
Comments: Rating: 5 Stars
Rating: 5 Stars
 
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