Lady Antebellum

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

Am i missing anything by dismissing them on the first listen?

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[koganbot]

Album came in the mail yesterday, but I haven't listened yet. I think Xhuxk is fundamentally thumbs down on it, but he's the one who sent me it, so he must think the band have some value.

[koganbot]

OK, played tracks one through five, and the only one that connects is track three, which is basically a '70s-'80s MOR/AOR power ballad that the band's new-country restraint makes not as overwrought as it could be. Well, "What's the point of a '70s-'80s MOR/AOR power ballad if it's not overwrought?" you might ask. But this seems fine. Listenable anyway. The woman's singing has some Christine McVie-like laidback quasi-intensity, and the man would be a baritone manly man except he's not a baritone and actually reminds me a bit of Neil Diamond, someone else who in decades past would, like Christine McVie, not have been a country reference. (By the way, speaking of Fleetwood Mac, did you know that Little Big Town are no longer on an indie but have signed a deal with Capitol, Lady Antebellum's label, and that Capitol-EMI have taken over the distribution and promotion of A Place To Land?) (Also, I can't think of anything that's particularly Bellum or Pre-Bellum about Lady Antebellum's sound.) In any event, a reason for me to dismiss tracks 1, 2, 4, and 5 and not to make it a priority to listen to 6 through 11 is that the songwriting isn't good, rather than there being anything wrong in principle with their MOR soft-rock hearts.