High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale is releasing an EP of ’80s cover songs titled Degree Girl: OMG! Jams which is probably my favorite album title since Romeo! TV Show (The Season), if not The Big Problem ≠ The Solution, The Solution = Let It Be. “Time After Time,” “Too Many Walls,” “Heaven Is A Place On Earth,” “Shadows Of The Night,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” and the legendary “Never Gonna Give You Up” are all essayed on this effervescent turd, which lacks the thoughtful shadings and deconstructive allure of a DJ Sammy track.
Here’s a snippet of “Never Gonna Give You Up”…
And the entirety of “Time After Time,” which may be better than Sugar Ray’s version of the chestnut, if no one else’s.
The armpits of teenage girls deserve so much better than this.
Ashley Tisdale - Never Gonna Give You Up [YouTube]
Ashley Tisdale - Time After Time [YouTube]
Here’s “Shadows of the Night”
It was nice to actually hear a full track from her, since most of the coverage I see is Ashley jogging with her boyfriend (soon to be divorced, back up dancer, with fluffy dog at the ready). Frankly, I’d rather hear the aluminum bits in the deodorant clanging around for 25 minutes instead, or maybe a Papas Fritas track, whose youth appeal, I feel, was never fully tapped.
Hire those dudes!
they were the first band i ever saw live!
I am actually interested in hearing this, and I’m sure that has nothing to do with the fact that I heard “He Said She Said” late on Monday on the soundsystem at an English “fine dining” establishment.
@CloudCarrier: OMG! How am I just hearing this?! Man… I’m gonna die before I hear even half the awesome stuff that came out in just my lifetime. :-(
Also, points for underappreciated songwriting of Cathy Dennis (though I guess she’s written enough corporate hits that “underappreciated” is probably not an accurate term).
It’s time to dispense with the autotuned vocals and just start letting robots sing everything.
@CloudCarrier: Yesss. I so agree. Disney should hire them to do their next movie. Some childhood friends and I just released a little indie movie using a few of their songs. (We all grew up in the same small place.)
Also, our (likely untrue) family legend is that Tony Goddess had a crush on my punkass sister in high school. That is all.
i like ashley tisdale. and too many walls is kind of a good choice for her–i mean, with everybody and their american idol-loving cousin going nuts for cathy dennis, you think she would have gone for touch me (all night long)*
(*which i know was a cover when cd did it, but still.)
@bcapirigi: @ObtuseIntolerant: Those both totally beat my Papas Fritas in-person/high school experience, wherein hundreds of fratboys waiting for The Cardigans attempted to boo them off the stage with their emptied beer cups and premature screams of “LOVEFOOL!”. Happily enough, they, and I, and our hairstyles, all survived.
I’m also glad that Brian liked them, too!