Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Lady Charlene - Open Your Eyes


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Lyrics -3
Vocal Performance -2
Orchestration -3
Dynamics -3
Mix -3

This moody rap song features some great acoustic piano. The male rap is also fine. The track's downfall, however is the female sung vocal. When Lady Charlene sings the chorus, it's sung so flat as to be annoying. With all the attention to orchestral detail, one wishes a little more attention would have been paid to the vocal's key. Lady Charlene is pretty -- albeit, also tough looking -- girl. Maybe if she sticks to rapping, and not to singing, she'll be more successful. The listener can't help hearing someone like Rihanna singing this song, and singing it much better. That's going to be a problem if Lady Charlene wants to push this song to the national pop charts.

- Review by Dan MacIntosh