(Written For Americansuperstars.tv)

 

Before I go into this review I have to say I really wasn’t too excited about the task before me. Now nobody here is forcing me to listen or write about any particular thing other than the latest and greatest American Idol news. It’s just that part of doing a blog that covers such a large group of people like Idol does, means that sometimes you write about things that have zero interest to you. Katharine McPhee’s self-titled debut is a prime example. I’m a football watch’n, truck drive’n, Hard Rock listen’n man!! Not some Lifetime Channel viewing, Cosmopolitan read’n, squeaky-teeny-bopp’n-girly-music love’n weirdo.

 

Good thing for me that part of being a man means you can admit when you are wrong. I played this cd a dozen times this weekend and I love everything about it. At time’s it makes you wanna curl up on the couch and relax while at others it’s all you can do not to go out on the town.

 

“Dangerous”, “Not Your Girl”, “Love Story”, “Open Toes” and “Do What You Do” each leave you looking for your keys and praying the bouncer lets you in the club. Then just when you’re about to hit the road Katharine takes you in the opposite direction with “Home”, “Each Other”, “Ordinary World”, “Better Off Alone”, and “Neglected”. These last few had me searching for my wife, some candlelight, and a cold pizza.

 

Katharine is not the hard rocker that Chris is. Nor is she the soulful, make you want to jump up and scream Taylor Hicks type. For her debut she didn’t go the route of cry-me-a-river Country like Carrie and Kellie. She made a good solid Pop album that stands up next to anything Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera have done. Although she lost the first round (Taylor Hicks won American Idol season 5, Katharine was the runner-up) she is definitely the winner of round two…and in the long run that just may be the one that counts.

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