PRIVATE AUDITION is a very pop flavored album that finds them dabbling with more playful fare, as opposed to the more hard rock driven sound they'd had up through BEBE LE STRANGE. This shift seems to have confused and disappointed a lot of their older fans, so this record gets panned an awful lot by critics. I have felt a little conflicted about why I like this record as much as I do, but believe it is a better album than most seem to think. Highlights for me include the hard rocker "City' Burning", the retro-cabaret of the title track, "This Man Is Mine" and "The Situation". Granted, the last four songs are lame, there are too many songs I enjoy revisiting here to go along with popular opinion. Probably closer to good than great, but I'm feeling generous.
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