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(General Thoughts)

I actually prefer how tame the lyrics are. I'm still rather averse to sexually explicit lyrics (though I'm no longer especially bothered by them), so the more childish type of romance is far more my type of thing & is probably one of the things that drew me to her work originally. Anyway, I was greatly looking forward to covering this album--"Run Away With Me" is one of my favorite songs of all time, so I had to support the nomination & hoped I could find a song even half as good as that one.

Well... I can't say that any song here resonated with me anywhere close to "Run Away Wiith Me", -but- I'd say "Emotion" and "I Really Like You" are pretty great at least. And I generally like the rest of the album; while none of the songs are quite what I was looking for, the fact is, I'm pretty into this type of sweet innocent pop song & enjoy her singing.

(Song Comments)

Run Away With Me: Ah, this old favorite of mine. It was nominated at one of my ranking topics a few years ago and I fell in love with it fairly quickly. It's kinda funny looking back at my thoughts back then--I actually partially dismissed this song originally for being more explicit than I'd have liked, which is hilarious considering how tame it is. I really could not handle anything even adjacent to sex back then. Aaaanywho..., the intro to this song opens with some of my favorite notes. There's this deep, low sound to those tones that reverberates through my soul & those first ten notes are absolute perfection, if not somehow beyond perfection. And while I'm not going to go into the details publicly, the lyrics are also incredibly resonate with me for *reasons*. Taken together, this song is one of only three songs that I've given scores of 11/10 to. Simply wonderful.

Emotion: Incredibly catchy song. I kinda love this one.

I Really Like You; I hated this song back in the day for how overly repetitive these lyrics are--by my count, "really" is said 67 times. But I've come around on it lately. It's another really catchy tune and the entire thing is so ridiculous.

...how'd we get in this position?
It's way too soon, I know this isn't love
But I need to tell you something

I really, really, really, really, really, really like you

The sudden shift from sexy times to that chorus is so jarring that it cracks me up every time. This song pleases me now.