Debbie Gibson - Body Mind Soul
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Artist: Debbie GibsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1993-01-19
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Love Or Money
- Do You Have It In Your Heart?
- Free Me
- Shock Your Mama
- Losin' Myself
- How Can This Be?
- When I Say No
- Little Birdie
- Kisses 4 One
- Tear Down These Walls
- Goodbye
Music reviews of Body Mind Soul
Music Review: Growing Pains
Rating: 4 Stars
A while back I wrote a review of Debbie Gibson's ELECTRIC YOUTH which actually garnered a few favorable votes and a comment or two from people who were fans back in her heyday. Of course, being a fan in Debbie's heyday probably meant you were a highschooler in the late '80s. I wasn't (by any stretch), but I WAS a high school teacher, and I remembered sneaking references to contemporary pop culture into my foreign language classes in an attempt to make French or German more "relevant" to the kids. Sometimes it worked. Asking students who they preferred--Debbie or Tiffany--played well in some classes (freshman level mostly), but it was always a big mistake to pose the same question to the Guns'n'Roses crowd.
Well, it took me a few decades to actually listen to Debbie Gibson (and I still haven't quite gotten around to Tiffany), but I did find ELECTRIC YOUTH on sale for ninety-nine cents one day and had to sample it. And it was, well, it was pretty good for someone so young (17 at the time, as I recall). It was an oddly earnest effort. This was lite teen-oriented pop, but you could sense that Debbie was someone who took music seriously and was in there trying her level best to do something with a little quality.
So now I find this later effort in the public library and decide, hey, let's see what she was up to as a young adult in the early 90s. Not surprisingly, the earnestness is still there. She's in there pitching, as my dad would have put it. And she came out with a fairly polished, verrry 90s album. A little slick, a little more polished and grown-up, not quite urbane but kind of urban (reflective of the times, I guess). All those multi-tracked vocals, suggestive more of TLC or En Vogue, show that she was eager to move beyond any white bread image from her teenybopper days.
Gibson is one of the few recording artists who actually labels the sections of each song on her lyric sheets. I find it almost touching. "Verse...chorus...bridge." Sort of announcing to the world, "Hey, I know something about MUSIC. I know how to construct a 'well-made song.' I'm not just an empty headed teen idol." And it's true: she exhibits craftsmanship throughout. True originality is a bit harder to come by, but it's a sincere effort and I give her a "B+" at the very least.
Lyrically or vocally, though, Debbie Gibson was not doing much that was truly distinctive at this point in her career. She has a pleasant enough voice, but not one that makes you stand up and listen! You don't necessarily say, "Who IS that?" Nor do you say, "Wow! That's definitely Debbie. I'd know her voice anywhere."
Of course, this was 17 years ago, and whole new generations of teen idols have come and gone and tried--valiantly or desperately--to extend their careers into young adulthood and beyond. You could say Debbie's done better than most. At 38, she is--I understand--still in there pitchin'. That's something. She may have even found her voice in the meantime.
That'd be somethin' too.
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