Music Review: The Band Perry - "The Band Perry"

The Band Perry seem like Hanson meets Taylor Swift, but better than both of those acts overall. I'm not a fan, far from it, but there was at least one decent single on their self-titled album. My song by song thoughts for the The Band Perry album "The Band Perry," are below.

"You Lie": A little rough as an opening, vocals reminiscent of some weaker Taylor Swift stuff and the lyrics are silly rhyming that goes the bad poetry route. The singing actually gets worse as the song progresses. The music itself was not handled bad.

"Hip To My Heart": Feels like it would work well in a television commercial, but would you go buy an album of commercial music? Don't answer that. Commercial can be used as a compliment or an insult and "Hip To My Heart is annoyingly commercial, which is bad to me.

"If I Die Young": "You Lie," went the bad poetry route, "If It Die Young" goes the not half-bad route. A wordy ballad that finds strength by touching on emotion, but managing not to get too depressing while giving instructions on what to do if she dies young. Good song.

"All Your Life": Some of the lyrics come out of her mouth as if she is chewing taffy. I'm not sure if that is a good type of unique, or maybe I just have taffy in my ears. The song is mostly run-of-the-mill country, but if you give it a longer chance, even if you tuned out your mind, the sound comes around to being a little better. There's an interesting change-up in instrumentals for a break and the chorus parts can grow on you.

"Miss You Being Gone": What is almost surfer rock guitar does not blend well with her vocals, which are as "off" as the guitar. Country rock not done right, it could possibly move the local dive bar crowd if played live. Gets pretty corny.

"Double Heart": The pacing is pretty good, but her voice isn't the exact match for keeping up. It's probably right in line with the previous song, rock out in the small bar live, forget laying down a dollar for the single.

"Postcard From Paris": Somewhat disjointed with a D for effort. I wonder if the lyricists were listening to the Alanis Morissette song 'Ironic" when they wrote this; a familiar game being played here.

"Walk Me Down The Middle": Singing about walking her around to show off to the world that they are a couple, but almost makes herself seem like an animal being shown off at the fair; ha ha. Some realist lyrics (about knowing she's not the prettiest girl) that deserve a one-handed clap, but the other hand is not impressed.

"Independence": Just sounds weird, not a good weird, off key/ out of tune weird, not that I really know what I'm talking about; ha ha.

"Quittin' You": Another song that feels juvenile in the delivery and is worse off for it.

"Lasso": Balances between "okay" and "muddled," but drones on too long.