Review Summary: The record, containing the worldwide hit "I Love You Always Forever," does not justify the prospect of shaking the world for the second time.
Donna Levis is a singer of Welsh descent, the performer of the hit single "I Love You Always Forever," which in 1996 climbed to the top of the music charts at the speed of light. You may have heard this song. If you heard, you even sang it off.
What was unusual for this action is that the song was able to achieve great success with minimal investment. As the producers of the Atlantic label said: "The song flared up like forest fires. People turned it on at every opportunity. "
And I will not argue with this: at that time, "I Love You Always Forever" set a record as the most successful song on American radio stations. Funny or not, the previous record was held by "I Will Always Love You," ironically similar in name to the hero of our story.
In general, yes, in addition to this, the comination of amazingly girlish sincere and pulsating vibes with obviously recognizable refrain "I love you always forever near and far closer together" went from the presented album "Now in a Minute". The album itself did not produce a significant effect either in the public or in the critical community.
Donna's voice is quite unique, although in real realities it resembles the soul mate of
Ellie Goulding and
Paula Abdul, if the latter had abandoned attempts to be a star of dance hits.
For Levis herself, who in the past was a music teacher, this was not the first undertaking in creative life. It surprised that she recorded the album at 22. I always thought she was 30 years old or older. On the cover is a confident business woman, as if preparing for a meeting. In the music video - an adult old-fashioned woman. The facts had to be brought down manually.
The album opens "Without Love" - a soundtrack with guitar reefs, giving deaf echoes of new jack swing. This track about broken dreams sets the tone for the subsequent sound: it either beats in a tonal linkage, or immerses us in a light comatosis.
From the point of view of arrangements, the compositions alternate from bright swing and funky melodies to euthanizing lullabies.
Nostalgically running away from the eye of "Nothing Ever Changes" as if developing in the wake of previous tracks. On the one hand, this is the flip side of "I Love You Always Forever", which says: "It's over." And there will be no promises, and neither will there be feelings.
Part of the album does not cause promising impressions. "Mother" and "Simone" are sonical twins of the piano spill, indirectly tied with parental relations, and "Agenais" and "Lights of Life" continue the started keyboard case with a rather contrived reflection. And "Silent World," as if in a mocking way, stretches this languid pleasure.
"Now in a Minute" is a soulfully subtle album, strikingly stuck in the mid-90s. And for this I do not blame him, it even marks his splendor and phenomenon among all the recalled releases of that time. With such a record, I am not surprised that Donna Levis did not become an artist of the first magnitude or a pop-underground hero, like
Carly Rae Jepsen. The album sounds faceless, sluggishly flowing from slow songs to something dynamic.
This is the CD that you accidentally took at a discount and found twenty years later when cleaning the attic. You will feel creepy when listening, as if the sound takes you to 20 years ago.
