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Chick Who Tries To Rock !!


Excellent Melodies, Most Songs are Catchy...
I know you're gonna laugh when I say this, but I honestly believe it's true.
Natalie Imbruglia has to be one of most underrated singers ever.
Pick yourself up from laughing on the ground and hear me out !!
This CD is one of my favorites this summer.
I Natalie's whole style & I don't know why she isn't bigger here in the U.S.
Plenty of critics laughed off Natalie Imbruglia in her first album, "Left of the Middle ".
Considered as an Australian actress who failed making money acting in soaps and now venturing in pop music to make up for it, Natalie was further criticized for not writing any of the lyrics for her hugely succesful single "Torn".
She was also compared to Alanis Morrissette, and of course we all know who is hailed to be the better singer among the two.

In this album, Natalie ignores her critics by releasing a new album.
As the ignores them, she also debunks their accusations of her inability to write songs by co-writing almost all the songs in this album.
Described as a more mature outing, this album affirms that.

Finally, to the songs.
Let me first tell you that if you hated, or at a certain extent, found "That Day " weird, don't feel bad.. It is weird, and its not catchy.
That's its charm.
But let it grow on you, and soon you'll find its quirky and unpredictable sound actually...appealing.
The lyrics read like a "spur-of-the-moment " type of diary entry, with only Imbruglia's repetitions of "That Day" in the end of each chorus as it eventually fades out in the end is probably the only line in the dizzy spell of lyrics that jives with the melody.
Not the best song in the album, although it DOES give out Natalie's message to her critics: this album is not at all like the first.

White Lilies Island 【Natalie Imbruglia】
Funky Melodies, Typical Imbruglia-style Rockers..
The second song, "Beauty On The Fire ", is one of my favorites.
It has this smooth, ambient feel in the beginning, which erupts into a fusion of strong, yet still suble guitars, an underlaying of the same ambient feel from the verses, and Imbruglia's drawl.
The lyrics coincide well with the mood, with lines like "Tonight, could I be lost forever to drown my soul in sensory pleasure ".
The lines "sensory pleasure ", as it is repeated every now and then by Natalie in the instrumental, haunts the electronic, subtle stormy feel of this song.
This song is all about drowning your all, your everything to the passion and desire of a luvd one, with complete complacency, and this song just sails in this concept.

The last song, "Come September" is quite an enigma.
You don't exactly know what the significance of September is.
However, the sound of this song sums up exactly what Natalie has been trying to say in this whole album, that she's changed and she's matured from the girl who sang "Wishing I Was There " while headbanging, jumping around the stage wearing an apron.
This is a very calm song , with subdued lyrics & instrumental accompaniment, although the mood is still there.
So, there you have it.
What really annoys me is that people aren't gonna get into "White Lilies Island " because of it's lack of a really, REALLY catchy song to attract them to the album.
Not even "Wrong Impression " could strike up a lot of sales, and Island is gonna be considered a failure when it's really a brilliant album.

All in all, this is good sophomore effort from Natalie Imbruglia.
With songs that are masters of sublime subtlety, encased with a voice that is beautifully fragile yet in any day can be powerful, this is a must for all Natalie fans.


【Track Listings】
01. That Day
02. Beauty On The Fire
03. Satellite
04. Do You Love?
05. Wrong Impression
06. Goodbye
07. Everything Goes
08. Hurricane
09. Sunlight
10. Talk In Tongues
11. Butterflies
12. Come September