Michelle Branch & Timbaland - Getaway

[AstralFire]

Her New Single. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D47O5-fO_I)

I love how much fun Timbaland is clearly having doing the mixing. :smallbiggrin: I don't even mind the product placement, considering I did not even realize it was product placement until after I'd seen the whole video and finally realized that 'MINI Countryman' was not, in fact, the name of a dwarf country pop act that had done producing on the video.

Personal Rambling Follows:
Once, as a very sheltered child, I was brought up to fear and distrust all popular music. Discordant, racy, violent, unwholesome - these were things I did not trust. If the song did not involve lots of bouncy chords for happy childrens to be dancing to, I was not interested. I also tried very hard to listen to classical music because it was cultured, even though I've truthfully always found most of it boring.

Then I started listening to Drops of Jupiter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc) because a girl I rather fancied told me it was her favorite song at the time. :smallsmile:

Deciding that this pop music stuff wasn't so bad, I slowly got more into it. Then, I saw an article about this brand new singer, Michelle Branch.

My first, and only, celebrity crush - I absolutely ate up Everywhere (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9k3-fwwYM&feature=channel). I purchased an album with my own money for the first time to consume the entirety of The Spirit Room, and it only got better, hearing the radio rerelease of Goodbye to You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IloeQy0WcA&feature=channel), which was leaning into the style she'd adopt for her second (and my favorite) album, Hotel Paper. I got it not long after it came out as an early birthday present from my best friend. Breathe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQZSL_tVsE&a=WrGeNUCJEuY&playnext_from=ML), in particular, found its way onto my CD Player endlessly. To this day, when I am really happy (or really need a pick me up), nothing does it like that song.

Then came The Wreckers, her country duo act. I liked it, but while I've gotten quite a bit of spintime from their only album, I always played Hotel Paper more. Something about the songs on that album just felt more warm, rich, full. Something to play on a lazy sunny day, with the light so bright and golden that you can see all the little dust motes flickering about slowly as you read a book on your bed.

Last year, the single Sooner or Later (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcDDiq14rJg) came out - kind of a fitting title given how long it's been since an album - and it felt halfway between her Wreckers style and Hotel Paper. I liked it, for sure, but I was cautiously optimistic.

And now comes this. All I can say is I've been squeeing since I first heard it.

[FoE]

Holy ****, Michelle Branch ISN'T dead. :smalltongue:

I always liked Goodbye to You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IloeQy0WcA), myself.

[AstralFire]

Breathe
Tuesday Morning
All You Wanted
Love Me Like That
Goodbye to You
Drop in the Ocean
Hotel Paper


My favorites of her first four albums (including Broken Bracelet - I am such a fangirl I actually ordered a copy off of her website years back, it was her first promo CD from when she was an unknown artist - and her time with The Wreckers.)

[FoE]

The new single was pretty cute. Super-light, but good.

@V: So am I!

[AstralFire]

I love it so much. I mean, Sooner or Later was good, but not nearly as much so. But I guess that could be deduced from my squeeing.

EDIT: Woah, I'm an Ettin now.

[The J Pizzel]

I've always liked her. A lot. She's beautiful, talented, and obviously knows a lot about music. In fact, by garage band in high school covered Everywhere and I played a song by the Wreckers this passed Saturday in a country band. But, I'm always honest when it comes to music and never biased. So with a heavy heart I must say...

I really didn't like this song. :smallfrown:

It has nothing dynamic about it. It's way too bland and it did absolutely nothing for me.

[AstralFire]

I can see where you're coming from; like FoE said, it is light compared to her other stuff. I just appreciate well-done light and fluffy.

[Joran]

Hey, Timbaland found his new reclamation project. The song sounds very much like a Timbaland song, more than a Michelle Branch song.

I was a huge fan of Michelle Branch in the early 2000's. I went to three of her concerts with my former girlfriend, now wife; I feel much older when I typed that. I actually didn't love Hotel Paper too much. I much preferred her first studio album Everywhere and her Wreckers stuff.

I agree with you though, Breathe and Tuesday Morning are my favorite songs off of Hotel Paper.

[AstralFire]

Reclamation Project?

I think part of the reason I love Hotel Paper so much is how wonderful it sounds as an album from start to finish. It was the first album to make me realize there was actual work put into the composition of an album, and it was not simply a chronological categorization of music that the artist had made. I don't feel like the Spirit Room works as well in that aspect, even though Drop in the Ocean is really very stunning as an endcap.

[Joran]

Reclamation Project?

I think part of the reason I love Hotel Paper so much is how wonderful it sounds as an album from start to finish. It was the first album to make me realize there was actual work put into the composition of an album, and it was not simply a chronological categorization of music that the artist had made. I don't feel like the Spirit Room works as well in that aspect, even though Drop in the Ocean is really very stunning as an endcap.

Well, Timbaland basically resurrected Nelly Furtado's career and offered at one point to try to help Britney Spears.

I didn't like many of the songs on Hotel Paper. I particularly disliked Love Me Like That; not really sure why. But yeah, the only songs I liked off of Hotel Paper was Tuesday Morning and Breathe, probably because they're the songs that sounded similar to stuff from Everywhere.