Olivia Newton-John - Rumour
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Artist: Olivia Newton-JohnEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
Published: 1988
CD Release Date: 1998-10-12
Music Label: Festival Records
Soundtracks:
- The Rumor
- Love and let live
- Cant we talk it over in bed
- Lets talk about tomorrow
- Its not heaven
- Its always Australia for me
- Get Out
- Big and strong
- Car games
- Walk through fire
- Tutta la Vita
Music reviews of Rumour
Music Review: Hits are a thing of the past.
Rating: 2 Stars
Poor Olivia. After 'Physical' it all went wrong. Changing trends and radio indifference played a part but O herself has to shoulder some of the blame. 1985's 'Soul Kiss' album had started out OK, despite the dud lead single, but soon fell off the charts when a second hit single couldn't be secured. Increasingly long gaps were occurring between projects and a lot of her fans simply moved on. Plus, the continuing 'raunchy' image used on 'Soul Kiss' didn't work and even Olivia seemed uninterested in it.
1988 rolled around and O, on the verge of 40, had had a baby and was running her (at the time) successful Koala Blue clothing chain. It's a wonder she came back at all!
Warning bells rang with the promo interviews for the album. Olivia said she had 'grown up' and wanted to do stuff about 'issues' that affected us all. Just what everyone wanted! Davitt Sigerson had done a review in Rolling Stone for 'Soul Kiss'. He said (in a round about way) that although her material wasn't doing her justice, she was still a great pop singer. Quite true. Whether this review got him the producer gig for 'The Rumour' I don't know, but he did make a very different album to her previous one. Sadly, it still didn't have many good songs!
I have to say my heart sank when Olivia announced she was to co-write some of the songs. There's five in all (this Aussie issue features the oddly off-key 'It's Always Australia For Me') and they mostly feature Olivia's attempts at social commentary. So we get a woman with a child starting a relationship with another man, 'It's Not Heaven' ('I'm gonna do some shopping. I'll get you those stockings!'), the environment-is-doomed themed 'Let's Talk About Tomorrow', 'Get Out' is O as a wife being the breadwinner and complaining about her husband not doing his bit (possibly the only one from the heart!) and the frankly strange 'Car Games' which doesn't seem to be about anything much but is the best of the lot.
Elton John's title track was a minor hit and is the best song here. If 'Twist Of Fate' was her last great pop single, 'The Rumour' was her last half-decent one. 'Walk Through Fire' is a dramatic ballad that strives for greatness but falls a little short and 'Tutta La Vita' is plodding Euro Pop that ends the album on a bum note.
'Can't We Talk It Over In Bed' was a second single in some quarters. It's less interesting than it sounds and it's doubtful it would have been much of a hit even in O's hey day. The shouty 'Big And Strong' is another non-starter, though it had to be said she copes quite well with such a demanding song, it's still a bad choice for her voice.
Sigerson's production is rich and more complex than John Farrar's but he seem to think he's dealing with Aretha Franklin. Many of these songs are simply beyond Olivia forcing her to reprise the silly squeals and shrieks from 'Soul Kiss'.
The final nail in the coffin was 'Olivia Down Under', an horrendous TV special designed also to promote the album (like the'Physical'album and long-form video 7 years previously), where Olivia flew to Australia to celebrate it's 200th birthday and to patronise it's residents. Never had her act seemed more out of touch and her persona more false than here. Skipping round Aus in vile Koala Blue clothes giggling stupidly and asking everyone if they 'drank much', before performing unbecoming tracks from 'The Rumour'. This sort of nonsense might have been excused when she was 20 and on Cliff Richard's TV show, but at 40, she just looked like an fool who wouldn't know reality if it hit her over the head. No wonder it tanked. Add the rubbish 'who is it?' artwork and you've got the album that cost Olivia her MCA record deal.
Never mind, perhaps she'll get it right the next time.
Oh dear, the next time was 'Warm And Tender'. All is lost.
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