Sabrina’s “I Love Acoustic: Intimate Interpretations of Your Favorite Hits Download/Review

Anyway, I thought I'd do some album reviewing for a while since I'm too busy at the moment to do full articles. I figured we can kick start with something mellow.


Sabrina’s I Love Acoustic: Intimate Interpretations of Your Favorite Hits.


No, I'm not kidding. That's the title of the album. Quite a mouthful, if you ask me, and not mention it sounds as frigging stupid as Buruguduystunstugudunstuy. Only for the latter's case, it's intentional. I mean really, Love? Acoustic? Intimate? Greatest Hits? What other random word do you need to chuck into the cover page? It's almost as if whoever thought of the title was desperate to catch the attention of the type of people who browse their music by keywords. To be fair though, nobody can ever judge an album's content by its cover, why, Jericho Rosales's album cover sucked too and...


Okay, nevermind. Let's just move on.

As said in the album, Sabrina covers popular love songs in this album. I really don't get why covering songs is all the rage nowadays. How long will we keep on accepting the reason for this is nostalgia? How about laziness? Yeah, that. Anyway, a good cover's still better than a bad new song, so let's just let that slide.

Here are a few songs worthy of note for this album:

A Thousand Miles
Vanessa Carlton has a notably fancy schlancy style, while keeping that snap at the end of her verses that adds a hint of poppiness to the song. Sabrina took that fanciness and ran around with it, ending with a song softer than the dongs of people who came in contact with Vina Morales. Also worthy to note, the original rendition is already ACOUSTIC, albeit PIANO acoustic. Which made me think that the only reason this was included is because people thought acoustic had something to do with being covered using a guitar or something.

Superman

A notably masculine song, sang by a female artist. Cute. But why change every "man" word in the song to "girl" and still keep the title? Fucking stupid. Seriously. Everytime I listen to this, I die a little.

Way Back Into Love
Hugh Grant sang this. Hugh Grant is the musical world's equivalent of the Little Engine That Could. Obviously this song is very very hard to screw up so Sabrina does okay here. Okay maybe not that much. What's with the strange falsetto (like there's a leaking airtank somewhere in the studio)? Falsetto is cute, but this is just too much.

The rest of the songs are pretty much the same. Sabrina likes to sing cute, which is something I'd like to hear when going to videokes with friends, not when I want to listen to something prerecorded. Too cute = maarte. That about sums up almost every song in this album.

Best Track?
You're Beautiful by James Blunt. For some reason, Blunt's pussy-style of singing blends well with Sabrina's style, and barely makes up for the other covers. But that's just me.

Overall Recommendation?
Sabrina's I Love Acoustic: Intimate Interpretations of Your Favorite Hits is like those fancy chinaware every Filipino family has. Fancy as hell, but hardly something you'd find using on a regular basis, and if you do, it's only mostly to impress other people.

Download The Album Via This Link