A Little More Personal (Raw)
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| Studio album by Lindsay Lohan | ||||
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December 6, 2005 (USA) |
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| Label (s) | Casablanca Records | |||
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12 (13) |
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39:47 (43:25) |
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Kara DioGuardi , Ben Moody , Butch Walker , Greg Wells |
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A Little More Personal (Raw) is the second music album by Lindsay Lohan and was released on December 6, 2005 in the USA. In Germany, the album was released on January 10, 2006. The official release date was March 24th, 2006.
background
Lindsay Lohan began writing her second work in June 2005, shortly after the release of First , her last single from the previous album, Speak . As the title suggests, she got more involved in the songwriting with personal lyrics, which, among other things, address her relationship with her alcoholic father Michael Lohan .
As with the previous album, Kara DioGuardi was put at her side as a producer. The first recordings, including her debut single Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father), took place during the filming of Herbie: Fully Loaded - A great Beetle starts through (2005), so that in some parts of the album in the raw mix of engine noises are heard.
In addition to Kara DioGuardi, Butch Walker , Ben Moody from Evanescence and Greg Wells were also involved in the songwriting and production. Hit supplier Desmond Child also participated as a songwriter with I Live for the Day . With I Want You to Want Me there is also a Cheap Trick - cover version on the album. Another cover version is Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks .
Musically, the album looks much more grown up and darker than the debut work, as it deals a lot with the personal experience and growing up of Lindsay Lohan. On the one hand, she comes from a dysfunctional family, on the other hand, she is part of the party scene herself and an example of the so-called It girls , who keep getting into conversation through constant presence in the tabloid media.
In contrast to the bubblegum pop of their debut, there are electronic pop passages, which are of course also back on the album, elements of power ballad , classic rock (especially with the cheap trick cover) and elements of sophisticated pop music in the style of one Trent Reznor or an Alanis Morissette on the album.
Track list
| # | title | Songwriter | producer | length |
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| 1 | Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father) | Lindsay Lohan. Kara DioGuardi, Greg Wells | Wells, DioGuardi | 3:41 |
| 2 | Black Hole | DioGuardi, Louise Goffin, Wells | Wells, DioGuardi | 4:02 |
| 3 | I Live for the Day | Desmond Child , Andreas Carlsson, Rthan Mentzer, Ben Romans | Wells, DioGuardi | 3:10 |
| 4th | I want you to want me | Richard Nielson | DioGuardi, Butch Walker | 3:09 |
| 5 | My Innocence | Lohan, DioGuardi, Wells | Wells, DioGuardi | 4:19 |
| 6th | A little more staff | Lohan, DioGuardi, Walker | Walker, DioGuardi | 2:59 |
| 7th | If it's alright | Lohan, DioGuardi, Walker | DioGuardi, Walker | 4:07 |
| 8th | If You Were Me | Lohan, DioGuardi, Wells | Wells, DioGuardi | 2:55 |
| 9 | Fastlane | Lohan, Ben Moody , Mitch Allan, DioGuardi | Moody | 3:23 |
| 10 | Edge of Seventeen | Stevie Nicks | Moody | 4:22 |
| 11 | Who Loves You | DioGuardi, Wells | Wells, DioGuardi | 3:50 |
| 12 | A Beautiful Life (La Bella Vita) | Lohan, Michelle Lewis, Charlton Pettus, DioGuardi | Wells, DioGuardi | 3:28 |
| Extended version | ||||
| 13 | Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father) (Dave Audé Remix) | Lindsay Lohan. Kara DioGuardi, Greg Wells | Dave Audé | 4:45 |
Cover artwork
The cover shows Lohan lightly dressed and bare-breasted, but with his back turned towards the viewer and covering his bosom. On the back there is a marker with luminous colors which represents the Chinese character 生 (, Pinyin : shèng; Cantonese : Säng). This means 'raw' or in English 'raw', the subtitle of the album. There are several other meanings, depending on the context, including "life" and "giving from birth". She also wears a necklace with a Christian cross and gloves, both of which are reminiscent of Madonna in Like A Virgin's time. You can also see her tattoo with the words La Bella Vita , a subtitle and the translation for the song A Beautiful Life .
reception
Sales
The second album could not achieve such high chart positions - neither in the USA nor in Europe - as its predecessor, the album Speak . In the USA, the album reached number 20 and sold 82,000 units in the first week, but could not stay in the charts for long. Overall, the album only sold half of the previous album. A third album was therefore not even tackled. Nevertheless, on January 18, 2006, the album reached a gold record in the United States .
criticism
Although the album seems much more mature and mature than their debut work, it did not meet with approval from all critics. In his review for Slant, Sal Cinquemani recognized that Lindsay Lohan had developed further, but he considered the more demanding texts to be of little content and a lot of facade. In addition, the album was overproduced, this would be particularly noticeable with the two covers. Still, it's not a bad album.
Thomas Erlewine awarded three out of five stars at Allmusic . Above all, he criticized the music, which was oriented too much towards market taste. Lohan would only touch on the genres used without filling the music with soul. In addition, the album is relatively depressing due to the dark lyrics. For this, however, one takes from Lohan what she has to say. You get the feeling that she means it honestly and has a vision for her musical future, in contrast to Ashlee Simpson , who released the album I Am Me from a similar position .
Whitney Strub marked the album for Popmatter's side as soulless and banal. She characterized her singing as weak and expressionless. In particular, she criticized the two cover versions as very weak. She even referred to I Want You to Want Me as the worst version of the song she'd ever heard. Similarly, Brian Hiatt shouted for Rolling Stone in 2005.
Single releases
Lindsay Lohan released Confessions of a Broken Heart as the only single track coupling from the album. This was released as a single on October 18, 2015 in the US only. In Germany, the songs from the single were made available for download. Another single I Live for the Day was planned, a promo version was already pressed, but after sales fell short of expectations, the plans were discontinued.
Confessions of a Broken Heart was the first single from Lindsay Lohan's album A Little More Personal and also Lohan's fourth single. It was released on November 8, 2005 in the United States, with radio stations playing the song as early as October. In Germany it was released on March 24, 2006, whereby the single could only be bought on the Internet. Otherwise the songs were made available for download. In Austria the single reached number 74 in the charts. In the US, the single came to number 57 and in Australia even to number 7.
The music video for the single was shot on September 25, 2005 in New York City. Lohan directed the film himself. The video shows Lindsay's childhood and her father's alcohol problems. In some scenes Lohan hides in the bathroom and hears her parents arguing, while in the other room her younger self (played by her sister Aliana ) climbs on the bed and cries after coming back from ballet class. All three rooms (the bathroom that Lohan is in, the children's room that Aliana is in and the living room that the parents are in) are shown behind a shop window, onlookers and paparazzi watching the three scenes, police cars standing around and the People are horrified. At the end, when Lohan is standing behind the glass, the glass wall breaks and the explosion throws the onlookers to the ground.
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date A Little More Personal (Raw)
- ↑ Lindsay Lohan Reveals The Secret Of Her 'First' Video . In: MTV News . ( mtv.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Jim Cantiello: Kara DioGuardi Opens Up About Lindsay Lohan, 'No Boundaries' . In: MTV News . June 27, 2011 ( mtv.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c d e Lindsay Lohan A Little More Personal (RAW) | Album Review | Slant Magazine . In: Slant Magazine . ( slantmagazine.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ↑ a b c Spence D: Lindsay Lohan - A Little More Personal (RAW). In: IGN. December 2, 2005. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Lindsay Lohan - A Little More Personal (RAW). In: IGN. December 2, 2005. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Eminem Scores Fourth No. 1 album In A Row . In: Billboard . ( billboard.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ^ Gold & Platinum - RIAA . In: RIAA . ( riaa.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ↑ Thomas Erlewine: A Little More Personal (Raw) - Lindsay Lohan. In: Allmusic . Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
- ^ Whitney Strub: Lindsay Lohan: A Little More Personal (Raw) . In: PopMatters . December 20, 2005 ( popmatters.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ^ Brian Hiatt: A Little More Personal (Raw) . In: Rolling Stone . ( rollingstone.com [accessed May 13, 2018]).
- ^ Lindsay Lohan - I Live For The Day. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ release date Confessions of a Broken Heart
- ^ Lindsay Lohan - Chart history | Billboard. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Steffen Hung: Lindsay Lohan - Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father) - hitparade.ch. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Lindsay Lohan: Your sister wants to go into show business. In: Fan-Lexikon.de. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Lindsay Lohan: Video clip for her dad! | BRAVO . In: Bravo.de . ( bravo.de [accessed on May 13, 2018]). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ LindsayLohanOfficial: Lindsay Lohan - Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father). November 18, 2011, accessed May 13, 2018 .
