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| | Because I Can | | | Music Artist : | | Katy Rose | | Music Style : | | General | | Release Date : | | 2006-01-24 | | Store Price : | | $16.49 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.49 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Overdrive
2. I Like
3. Watching the Rain
4. Enchanted
5. Catch My Fall
6. Snowflakes
7. Glow
8. Teachin' Myself to Dream
9. Vacation
10. Original Skin
11. Lemon
12. Because I Can
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 :D Not for little kids looking for Miley Cyrus
Submitted on: 2009-08-02 |
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| Although very young and pretty there is nothing cute and poppy about this girl. She is an amazing, mature musician with a real knack for songwriting. She's truly a great artist. She proves you don't need a great voice to be a great artist. |
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 Sounds like a matured Hilary Duff...
Submitted on: 2007-06-26 |
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| I purchased this cd because one of my friends recommend Katy Rose and of the few songs I'd heard, I loved them. However, when I bought the cd, I was slightly dissapointed. Sure, a few of the songs are really great but a few, especially "Watching The Rain" sound like Hilary Duff slightly matured. Though without those few songs and a little more into the lyrics, Katy Rose could really be something and not just one of those one hit wonders and definitely not a Hilary Duff sound a like. I give this cd a 7/10. |
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Here's To Hoping
Submitted on: 2006-07-15 |
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Katy Rose's debut "Because I Can" has been highly overlooked but is brilliant nonetheless in its artistic, poetic display of both despondency and hope. The entire album glows with promise for Katy Rose's future and the artistic genius it encompasses on its own as a single record. The beautiful depth and introspection Katy lets us in on is riveting and relatable as the music and lyrics jut straight from her heart while not appearing pretentious.
Katy starts the album off with the enjoyable and radio-ready (though naturally a little hollow) singles "Overdrive" and "I Like", and follows with the affecting, burdened pining of "Watching the Rain" and "Enchanted".
Next up is the angst-ridden "Catch My Fall", which most will find they have to acquire a taste for. The subsequent "Snowflakes" is probably the dip in the album, too slow for its own good as it comes across as one long yarn.
The best is yet to come, however, and Katy quickly redeems herself with "Glow", a dejected yet hopeful song that contains some of the most poetic and reflective lyrics of the album, and is my personal favorite. She follows this with the equally hopeful and even more poetic "Teaching Myself To Dream" and the angry but delightfully self-sardonic "Vacation".
After this comes Katy at her most impressionable with the deep yearning of "Original Skin", featuring a beautiful mix of acoustic guitar, bongo, and violin. Katy further displays her incredible talent at writing in the poignant and entirely arresting "Lemon", and ends the album with the despondent, pensively hopeful "Because I Can".
When all is said and done, Katy Rose has presented us with a truly striking and stirring debut. The entire album resonates with emotional intensity and artistry. Here's to hoping we will be seeing more of this incredibly talented artist in the near future.
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 shameful
Submitted on: 2006-06-02 |
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I find Katy Rose offensive. It would be okay to be banal and unoriginal in your songwriting. I would find no fault in producers and songwriters pushing a young girl into the music industry. Hey, maybe she'll pick up some money for college. Clearly someone wants this girl to get a piece of the anti-britney action. Her songs are basically junior high journal fodder. It is obvious that the lyricson this abum are strung together to give the audience the impression that she is a "bad girl" they are meant to make you believe that rose is a jaded, serious artist with REALLY SHINY HAIR! I am assuming that the topics referenced in these songsare meant to have associative power. That's fine, I guess. Taste is subjective, and making crap is no crime. What I find offensive is that she has used someone elses tragedy to add a touch of, I guess, "Dark Glamour" to what is otherwise a pretty non-sensical song. The song I am speaking of is OVERDRIVE. ergggh. the lyric:
I'm six feet under the Bhodi Tree
With my crap new-age philosophy
Diamonds where there once were stars
I'm sittin in Jayne Mansfield's car.
Jayne Mansfield is an actress who died in an absolutley horrific car crash in 1967, when her car crashed into an insecticide truck killing her and two traveling companions. Adding to the horror, MAnsfields children were asleep in the backseat of the car. Mansfield's daughter grew up to be an actress as well: Mariska Hargitay from Law and Order SVU. When I heard KAty Rose's song I didn't pay much attention to it. I thought it was just another song spit out into the universe that everyone will hear and than forget.The Mansfield lyric kills me however. Everyone in Rose's camp is trying to make a buck. That much is obvious. I just don't understand why they feel the need to rape someone elses personal tragedy in order to get there. Whoever produced this song should feel pretty disgusted with themselves. And as for Rose, I don't know if her angst (teen or otherwise) is real, but I really hope it isn't related to having been there to watch a close relative die, and should she suffer that misfortune, I sincerely hope noone ever talks about it on a song that plays during the mean girls dvd menu. That would be pretty disrespectful. |
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"I keep on dreaming because i can..."
Submitted on: 2006-05-21 |
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| Katy Rose's debut album, Because I Can is a breath of fresh air. Rose is a wonderful songwriter, her talent is obvious in her first single, Overdrive. I love that song so much, "I like the light and hate the heat but I'll lick the blood right off your street." The song Lemon appears in the film Thirteen which is also on this great album. Another standout tracks include: Snowflakes, Enchanted, Because I Can, Watching the Rain, Vacation, and Orginal Skin. She shows tremendous potential on Orginal Skin, "I'm outside let me in I'm still shedding my orginal skin..." The best song is Snowflakes, mellow and moody, a pure classic, "I close my eyes to feel the cold on the palm of my blue hand..." I can't wait til she releases her next album. Rose is a true and raw artist. Just listen to the song Vacation, "I've lost all sense of navigation but got my Californication..." Don't wait buy this album! |
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