Ingenue

Thoughts before listening: I remember KD Lang being a big deal, but it always seemed like very adult contemporary music to me. Soft rock ballads and VH1-only music videos is what this makes me think about. Review: So not really soft rock I guess, more soft jazzy country crooning. k.d. has a really nice voice, but this is pretty boring. "Constant Craving" is a good song, but this is otherwise really dull. 2-stars

Growing up my dad used to listen to prog rock all the time. I was never a fan of being forced to listen to genesis in the car as a youth but looking back now, and listening to this, I realise that if I grew up being forced to listen K.D. lang I probably would have turned to hard drugs.

niet mijn ding.... traag en vervelend

Old school lounge music. She’s got a very rich tone. I just have little interest in this style of music.

She has a really unique voice that is really pleasing to listen to. I just never was able to get invested in the songs themselves as it’s really not my kind of music. While I can appreciate the voice, the songs itself weren’t for me and I wouldn’t listen to them again.

This album is hard for me. The singing is excellent, the production is crystal clean and inspired, the instrumentation is creative. But despite all these things I just love this album. It’s too slow for me which is more an indictment of myself than the album. I liked the last song on the album and also the first song. But ultimately I just wasn’t a huge fan of the album as a whole.

Not my kind of thing but nice enough

1.8

Not for me.

It sounded like Mexican music sung by a white woman

Not for me. Nice voice, but I found it incredibly boring and just couldn't wait for it to be over.

One too many adult contemporary albums this week. I was pretty much checked out the entire runtime here. Lang’s voice is solid, but the songwriting is about as milktoast as it gets.

My irrational grudge against k.d. lang stems purely from her association with my least favorite Bond movie (Brosnan's masterclass in banality: Tomorrow Never Dies), and the adult contemporary slog that is Ingénue does not help her case.

The problem I had with this album is that Miss Chatelaine and Constant Craving were so overplayed at one point, that I still dislike them. I likely will have Constant Craving stuck in my head for awhile. I think k.d. is a great singer, I think she had some great musicians on board. I still didn't enjoy it though, but I do recognize that's on me and my tastes, and not that it's objectively not a good listen.

I actually liked this album more than I thought I would after listening to the first song. Once I heard that country twang, I kind of rolled my eyes a bit thinking "Oh boy, buckle up", but there's some good tunes in here. Miss Chatelaine and Constant Craving were great! Still Thrives This Love's guitar intro is also cool, but then it fades away. The vibe of the song is cool though. I can see someone performing some interpretive dance to this song and really bringing out the emotion from the song. The rest of the album... meh. I did notice that a lot of the songs started off weak, but the more it played and as the song unfolded, it became decent. It's a 2/5, but a strong 2

More like Nothingnue, amirite?

This had a bit of a throwback vibe, a nostalgic element, that I found captivating. That said, it didn't offer enough variation or energy to keep me interested over the full play.

Production and musicianship is good and I know she's a good songwriter, but this ain't for me.

I definitely know of this artist. I know a few tracks, not quite sure if they are off this album. I mostly know the tracks off the radio. Not my type of music. Definitely respect their music.

I've heard kd lang sing some amazing songs however none of them were on this album.

Great voice, boring material.

Not my thing and a bit tedious (2.5/5)

Bore off

This was fine. I liked the first few tracks but the rest of this didn't resonate.

Boring except for Constant Craving.

She has a good voice but this was too low energy for my taste.

Chill lady rock, fitting for a weird club where everyone drinks quietly and doesn't look at the band

Do you like calm music? Then this album is for you. save you is pretty good the lyrics are great. The beat is good and the artist has a great voice. The other songs are decent it just they kinda sound the same. But I would recommend this album if you were tryna relax or sleep.

1st song- its ok but I don't like it how they were saying it and its ok next they can do it better 2nd song- oh its really nice but it need to be better next time because it don't make any sense 3rd song-i mean its ok but it sound so weird and they can way better but its fine

Do you like slow music? If so, this album is for you! K.D. Lang is an excellent slow music artist, however, I'm not fond of it (her music). One reason is that I don't like slow music. Another reason is that I feel like I'm going to fall asleep listening to her music. I only recommend you listen to her music if you like slow music. If you don't, I recommend you don't listen to her music.

This must be the kind of music English majors listen to. Inscrutable poetry set to nondescript acoustic music with some jazz or symphonic bits to sound more posh.

Her voice is great but it didn’t connect with me

Good album, but have to be in the right mood to listen to the full thing.

Not a huge fan of this album, but Constant Craving is a pretty good song.

I expected to like it more, but it just didn't grab me.

Dont got me going. Pretty solid but not outstanding. Few Songs that i liked. 1.5/5.0

too naive for me

Music for old lesbians. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s not for me.

it was okay but i found it pretty uninteresting, it’s not my type of music id want to hear but it was okay

I rarely fall asleep to musical boredom.

I thought it was a dude... Had to replenish lost testosterone by watching gorillas fight

She has a good voice, but I was just bored my the songs

Eu fiquei com uma preguiça extrema quando vi que era mais um álbum da k.d.lang. Já tinha sido me recomendado o Shadowland, que achei fraquíssimo. Porém com esse minha experiência foi melhor, ainda não é o tipo de música que vou ouvir e nem sei se colocaria nessa lista, mas foi melhor que o outro.

I can only assume Constant Craving is at the end to try to get people to sit through the rest of the album first.

שירים בסדר פשוט לא הטעם שלי 2/5

calming

Slow. Some ok interesting songs but not a must listen before ya die.

was okay. not my jam.

Want to know a sad reality of life? No matter how hard you try, there will always be things you can’t change. Especially when it comes to music. Forcing yourself to listen to something, and trying to convince yourself you actually enjoy it is not a good idea. I had this outlook towards Swans for a while, but I’ve warmed up to them since. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about this album. And that hurts me. Because when you lay it all out, I should have loved this. Knowing my history with similar sounding music, this should have been a shoo-in for me. I’m often a big fan of these alt-country jazz inspired easy listening records. But this album does nothing to maintain my interest. Or really compete with any of the other albums in that genre that I love. To put it simply, this album is boring. It’s harsh, but the only way I can properly describe where this goes wrong. There is one obvious positive that even I can’t ignore. I’m not sure who this women is. But I can admit that her voice is pretty amazing. Easily the best aspect of this album by a mile. And music that is more vocal based is fine. And that sort of applies to this. But there is also definitely a focus on the more arranged instrumentals. And when the vocals are great, but everything else consistently isn’t, I lose interest quickly. I wish I had more positive things to say. It feels like I should, and this had the potential to be better, but really isn’t anything special. Rating: 4/10

Not really my thing

Beautiful voice, but was slow paced for me

concerning

I liked the first song

Welp, This was better than Shadowland! 1.5/5

I tried very hard to like this album, but nope. Outside of Constant Craving which seems out of place on the record, the record’s slick and very dated production did not hold up. I much prefer the country-tinged sound of Lang rather than this pseudo cabaret style. Even her smooth and silky voice couldn’t save it. Felt like I was listening to the Lawrence Welk show or some made-for-TV special.

The open line was very apropo as I felt like I needed to be rescued from listening to this. Snooooooze fest. I’ll be generous at a 2 bc she does have a nice voice and good musicianship.

KD Lang’s music is the most adult-alternative music that has ever adult-alternatived. I wouldn’t say it’s bad, just kind of meh bordering on cringey. Sounds like music you’d hear on a seniors-only Caribbean cruise. I’d say my craving to listen to something else was…constant. 2.5/5

Boring as fuck

One review says “But just imagine having a relaxing evening in your renovated villa, pulling up a kitchen stool, pouring a glass of pinot gris and enjoying the heck out of this classy album.” I can’t relate to this at all. Man this album just doesn’t have anything that jumps out to me. It just sounds like one continuous song

Of the very few solo female vocalists on this list, THIS one made it? The fuq

It’s loungey. But it didn’t do much for me

4.5/10

She has a great voice, and Constant Craving is a classic. But I really didn't care for this album as a whole.

joa ganz nett, mir aber zu träge/zu schwülstig

Oof. The only thing saving this from being 1* was her great performance of “Hallelujah” at the closing ceremony of the 2010 Olympics. It bought her a lot of slack in my mind.

😴😴😴 2/5

4 / 10 Buena voz, buena instrumentación, pero tremendamente aburrida. Música para dormir elefantes.

Girl power!

Like the other k.d. lang album we got a couple hundred albums ago, I listened to this and simply don't know why I'm supposed to care about it. While not country anymore and rather trying to go for a deep and velvety pop experience, it's still utterly uninteresting.

Not bad singing skill but the whole album feels a bit bland or generic. If you told me these were all covers I may believe you. I wish I had liked this more. Maybe it was the day.

there's some mystery in it, overall a bit boring...

This album was fairly enjoyable but a bit boring. It gave a sort of musical theatre feel, but without a story. Don’t have a whole lot to say about it.

Pretty boring. Talented singer, but the compositions weren’t super compelling. I appreciate that it ended with what I feel is the strongest song in “Constant Craving” but by the time we got there I was just ready for the album to be over.

I've heard of K.D. Lang before, but I don't think I've ever listened to any of her music before. Overall, I thought this album wasn't that great. K.D. is a really good vocalist, but good vocals just weren't enough to make this album interesting for me. I enjoyed "Miss Chatelaine" and "Still Thrives This Town" because they had some great arrangements, and they really stood out from the rest of the album. However, "Constant Craving" was far and away the best song on the album. Come to think of it, is this album solely on the list because of "Constant Craving?" I guess I can't be too mad about that. K.D. Lang is clearly a talented musician, but this album misses a lot more than it lands with me. There just aren't that many songs that have great arrangements to go along with Lang's great vocals.

Not horrible, but doesn't speak to me in the slightest. 2/5

Easy listening country music is really not my thing. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: Constant Craving Date listened: 22/03/24

I try to avoid the "this isn't my thing...1star" attitude that I see a lot on this site. But after a run of Billie holiday, Kate Bush and now this... I'm about to throw in the towel

An adequate country-pop album, but nothing special.

A bit too much country western twang for me to really enjoy it but pretty good. High 2.

A truly wonderful voice, not sure if this is country, easy listening or world music. Glad I listened but not my thing

Didn’t connect with me, not a lot of standout moments.

Very impressive voice. Some creative usage of string instruments, and produced very clean. The lyrics are very poetic. Feels like a spotlit bar scene in an 80’s spy movie.

#141. Beautiful voice, boring as fuck music. Background noise out of ten. 2/5: meh Song added to playlist: Miss Chatelaine I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link

This one left me fairly neutral. There is no denying k.d. lang has a superb voice. It is rich, controlled and technically impressive throughout. The production is smooth and understated, leaning into a sophisticated pop and adult contemporary sound. That said, as a full album it feels a bit meh to me. The tempo and mood rarely shift enough to fully grab my attention, and a lot of the tracks blend together. It is pleasant, but not particularly memorable. Save Me is the standout and the one track that really rises above the rest. Beyond that, it is an album I can appreciate more than truly connect with. Favourite song: Save Me Least favourite: The overall album feels too safe and similar throughout Album artwork: A cool and stylish cover that suits the tone of the record

Starting to like this cabaret music. Starting to, not there yet.

This album comes across as country-inflected sophisti-pop for the grown up market. Not really to my taste, and I don't understand why it's considered one of the 1001 albums. Nice voice. 2/5

1. false, not genuine or unauthentic. Hyvä hetki tätä kuunnellessa kuitenkin.. 2000 steps a day..

Decent album

We recently had Lang and I very much disliked. I think her voice is too boring and tiring for me and just brings nothing. I’ve heard worse but i’ve heard much better too. I’m good with a song or two by her then don’t need more.

Ça va mais je réécouterai pas

Ce n'est pas trop ma tasse de thé, je n'accroche pas aux mélodies.

Kaj da ti velim k.d., lepo al dosadno.

I found this to be quite boring. The epitome of MOR music. I won’t be going back to it.

I grew up listening to this album. I didn't like it then and I still don't like it now. The only great song is Constant Craving. The rest of the album sounds like "adult light radio". It's standards, elevator music. Which is a shame, because Lang has a gorgeous voice. I hope she did more with it later in her career, but this doesn't inspire me to check out more.

Pretty bored by this one.

Lovely voice but the album was just a bit lackluster overall.

Nothing special to my taste

Great voice and all, but I never could get into her adult contemporary style of music. A lot of it reminds of waiting in a dr’s office 2.5

I'm not sure what to think about this record. Great voice, good arrangements. But I just don't really think this kind of contemporary pop is something I really enjoy. I had certainly heard k.d. lang before, and liked a few of the songs I have heard over the years but had never listened to a whole album. From this record, Constant Craving was obviously my favorite but I liked Season of Hollow Soul too. However, I'm not sure that I would seek out anything else from her just based on this record. It goes a little to far into country territory for my liking. Ultimately, I feel like is is a decent record but when it was over I wasn't left wanting more.

not my thing, decent music

I am only familiar with k.d. lang from being one of the more famous celebrity fans for the local Portland Trailblazers. Had no expectations for this record, and have obviously heard the last track "Constant Craving" before. It's not really for me, but obviously it's a decent record and I get why people love it. Good to have more context to her though.

Kinda boring

Fine, but not my style.

Not my Kind of music. In my opinion mostly shallow Music. Relaxing If you want to listen to Something just "by the way".

Enjoyed her voice. Track highlight: Miss Chatelaine (samba vibes). Back half of the album kind of dragged.

The aural equivalent of watching paint dry. Very Canadian: boring, soulless, inoffensive and bland. It doesn't warrant a 1-star review because it fades into the background so completely that I hardly noticed it. I would almost rather be annoyed by an album than bored into a coma by one, but not quite.

Listened Before? N Interesting cabaret-style music. Not really my thing. Kudos to her for earning a grammy though. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Miss Chatelaine

Svärmor älskade den här en gång i tiden. Jag tycker den är tråkig.

i didn’t mind this i guess and there was 2 songs i actively liked and thought were really good, but personally i’ll probably never listen to it again, even though i like having female artists recommended… she’s cool but just not enough for me personally.

Meh

Constant gravy is a good quality song and there no doubting her pipe work. However this album is mainly dull muzak.

Not terrible, just boring. Constant Craving is good though.

The guitar in Constant craving has some 80's tom petty vibes (that Jeff Lynne 12 string sound). But overall this album sounds like something I'd hear in the dentist office waiting room.

It was nice even though doesn't stand out. Took a nap at work while listening.

Constant Craving is amazing. The rest of this was painfully boring. I could barely through it. CC gives it a 2 otherwise it would have been 1

You have to respect the artistic choice to attempt to write the most boring album ever conceived. It's not a 1 because there's nothing overtly offensive in it but it was dishwater dull.

Great voice but this was monotonous

2/5. A cool fusion of jazz and country, pop and theater. Quiet songs of love and loss. Didn't hit me as hard as I thought it would. It's beautiful don't get me wrong, but I don't think I'm going out of my way to listen to this one again. Most songs are too slow without much change that it does kind of drag in places. The hits are great but other than that, an okay album at best.

You’d think I would like this more than I did but it’s all slow songs and the songs were kind of just meh.

was just not something i vibed with though some beautiful lines in there

Clearly, K.D. Lang is talented both as a vocalist and a songwriter. But this just wasn't my cup of lukewarm and flavorless tea.

Nothing special. Trivial melodies and trivial songs.

this sounds intense. congratulations i guess? or sorry that happened?

Good voice but boring songs

'Constant Graving' va ser un punt d'inflexió en la carrera de Lang i un dels temes més escoltats aquell llunyà 1992. L'artista canviava el country modernitzat dels seus primers discos per un so molt més contemporani i que, la veritat, li esqueia molt millor. Mai ha estat una artista que m'hagi cridat l'atenció, però el disc, sobretot la seva veu, és més que respectable

Not going to totally trash k d lang but this isn’t for me

It's pleasant enough, but boring.

"Constant Craving" is the real highlight of this album, as it is one of the few songs that is upbeat and seems to really shine. Not sure why K.D. Lang put it last on the album. "Outside Myself" is another good song. So that's my positivity. I am on a string of albums that I don't seem to appreciate sufficiently. So, why would this be an album I need to hear? What separates this from other country-rock tinged pop albums? I would argue nothing does, because this music isn't bad and is perfectly listenable. But Lang isn't doing anything necessarily that is different or better than others. If someone said, "Do you know of any country-rock tinged pop albums by an artist that I should listen to?" then I would not list this album. Heck, if someone asked me, "Do you know of any country-rock tinged pop albums by a lesbian artist/duo/group that I should listen to" then I'm not sure I would name this album as one that should be heard. What separates this, outside of "Constant Craving," that has not been done before and/or been done better? I would argue, not a hell of a lot. So this isn't a bad album, perhaps not noteworthy, which is the problem with it being on the list.

Best Song: Constant Craving. Love a good accordion. Best vocals on the album, too. Worst Song: Season of Hollow Soul. sounds like a local church's edgy gospel. Overall: Some pleasant cabaret instrumentals. Half the tracks sound like they could (with a bit of modification) serve as alternate-universe Bond songs. The other half are Bond's lullabies. Overall, too sleepy for me.

Paras biisi jätetty viimeiseksi, olipa hyvä lopetus. Siellä oli hauskoja soittimia, jotka saivat hyvin tilaa. Muuten en lämmennyt, liikaa jousia ja sanoitukset eivät vetäneet mukaansa vaaditulla tavalla.

Not my thing

80% of these songs are about kissing. Not objectively bad, but it's just too adult contemporary for me. Best Song(s): N/A Listen Again: No

Nice album. Have heard like it before but just better.

Pliisu ja lälly. Kun levy loppu ja spottari alkoi toistamaan vastaavaa musaa niin taso nousi merkittävästi.

Meh

Slow and boring in a 90s smoky jazz way, but it does come together in "Constant Craving," which is somehow really great. Just listen to that song instead of the whole album.

One of about a billion female singer-songwriters from the 90s who all blur into the same singular beigeness. If this sort of music is your bag then sure, you do you, but it doesn't speak to me and there are loads of artists who did and do this better. It's not bad enough to get a 1/5 but it's sinfully boring.

Never really got on with this. Blended into the background very easily. not really much I can say that I don't like about it, there's nothing obviously wrong but there's nothing obviously right either. Not a patch on someone like Dusty Springfield who came before, or Norah Jones / Eva Cassidy who came after. 2/5.

Inte min typ av musik. Lite långsamt. Men hon var duktig

Inget jag var särskilt engagerad i. Inte dåligt men lite meh.

she did not like that :(

Nothing I could really appreciate. Sleepy pop with no hooks.

Shrug

Constant craving is a great song, was a real boost at the end of the album, pitty you had to go through the whole album to get to it. Rest wasn’t my cup of tea.

Weinig aan. Ze heeft een prima stem, maar de muziek grijpt me niet aan.

Pretty boring, but I did like that once song

I got to KD, and her song writing partner Ben Mink, via Shadowland (produced by Owen Bradley) and Absolute Torch and Twang, both of which I cherish to this day, wonderful times and a lovely part of the late eighties, a corner of pop music that was still ok. For some reason I struggled with Ingenue, it was pretty low fi, one dimensional. I remember giving it away to someone who expressed an interest, something I never do as a rule. I think it is her vocal style, I'd heard her through those two earlier albums and this just didn't add to that experience, possibly unfair I know. She has a bit where she goes to the higher register and it becomes very formulaic. So, listen to this before you slip off to the never never? I dunno. Wash My Soul is beautiful, a great performance with a great tune. Constant Craving is a fine pop song, again her sometimes striving vocal delivery grates a tad. That said the strength of the tune itself is brilliant, as exemplified by Glen Matlock's cracking cover version.

Nine songs of longing with the same vocal phrasing.

constant craving is on this album but it isn't the cool club remix all the other songs are her just singing for a while 2.5

Zzzzz...

Not really my cup of tea. 2/5

Only 1 song got a thumbs up

Not for me

Just had "69 Love Songs" yesterday, and this somehow felt longer than that. Boring crooning for boring people. Obviously a talented singer or whatever, but I can't keep my eyes open listening to this.

Meh.

1.5

Is it a bird? Is it a dude? Whatever it is, it's getting a 2

not my thing

Nah not for me

Dull album with not masses going for it

It's just so depressing. Top song - Constant Craving

the last song is ok and that's why this album isn't 1*

Nice i guess, but a little boring

Lovely voice and production but its all a bit easy listening lounge music. Dull dull dull.

Pretty boring album, just too lightweight and MOR for my taste.

I remember enjoying this some back in the day

k.d. has a lovely voice, for whatever my opinion on that is worth. If I had to listen to a bunch of slow songs back-to-back (as I just did), I think I'd prefer they follow the stripped-down simplicity of 'Wash Me Clean'. There are so many non-essential parts and finishes on the other tracks!

I mean, it's not the worst album on this list? But I can't honestly say it was good. I found the weird, almost-kinda-country vibe pretty off-putting. But luckily, that's only an occasional annoyance. Unfortunately, when it's not annoying, it's just boring. Just... very bland overall. It's not enough to fail the album as a whole but it's also not enough to give it a pass.

Tja, wat vinden we van deze lesbopop? Het is wel aardig, maar kabbelt ook een beetje voort. Wat dit een beetje mist is, excusez le mot, ballen.

Like her vocals, but the backing tracks are awful, was a tough listen at points

It's okay

A real lush production but its oh so Radio 4

Fav songs: - constant craving

k.d. lang has the kindest-sounding voice. I recall this album and I enjoyed some of the country-western cabaret feel to it. That’s all I’ve got.

Coole artiest maar wat flauwkes qua muziek imo

Her voice is fine, but her song writing is mediocre. Constant craving is good but the rest of the album is one note. Perhaps this appeals to the wine drinking mommy set?

It’s fine background music, just not me

Very calm chill album

Constant craving good, rest of album not memorable.

Not for me

Had its moments. Relaxing

Mellow Not my taste

Niet zo gek van dit album. Beetje eentonig

Skeptical from the outset... here we go! ... nice enough, just not really my style.

Her voice is nice but the songs are kind of boring

Awful.

Don't listen to this if you need to stay awake. Well I don't dislike this as much when it first came out but that's not saying much. Some odd blend of country and cabaret.

Constant Cravings stands out in this otherwise boring album.

This is pretty darn boring, and not something I will put on again. Didn't HATE, but did not enjoy it, either.

Not my thing

Less country than the other album from the same artist I got here on the list, but still annoying. The three last songs are at least a little enjoyable, but the whole album is not!

This is good if you like that sort of thing, but I don't, so I find it a little twee.

Cabaret country? It's certainly interesting but a combination of two things I'm not terribly favorable on is a tough sell.

It’s not offensive or anything, but not my cup of tea.

pretty but boring

I really like k.d. lang's voice, I just always wish it was singing something else. Love the voice, don't care much for the songs. (But I do like it when she covers other people's songs.)

Nothing really here than stood out or got me going. The last song sounded familiar but this didn’t do it for me.

Aika löysää paskaa... Ei nyt ainakaan aamulla tuntunut löytyvään mitään tarttumapintaa. Mitäänsanomatonta ja lötköö. 2/5

Gähn. Constant Craving ist ganz ok.

not well-aged

Never got into this album at the time and have the same experience listening to it now - a couple of songs are quite strong though and vocals are excellent.

Just more country MOR stuff… find it extremely difficult to get anything but bored with this type of music.

Great voice, nothing really interesting other than that. Songs didn't really appeal to me.

Meh

13th January 2022 Listened on my phone in the morning while showering etc before heading back to London in the afternoon. Didn't mind it, she has an amazing voice but overall not really my bag.a bit too draggy.

2 stars. Nice voice but I didn't care too much for the songs

I was in a calm mood, so this was clicking some. Its a bit country-ish with the steel guitar and twang, but much better than the regular old country. im thinking a 2-3. pleasant surprise. I may give it another listen

Really solid voice, but not a fan of this kinda cabaret muzak stuff. Feels like the soundtrack to pretending to be artsy. Constant craving (the only song I'd heard before) is the most upbeat by a mile, the rest really subdued. 2/5.

Enjoyable

'ight

This is too smooth for my tastes. Very competent but mostly forgettable.

Beautiful but too sleepy for me. I do find some of the compositions interesting but not enough for more than a cursory listen Saved: Miss Chatelaine, Constant Craving*

You can draw a line through Vera Lynn then Shirley Bassey to arrive at k.d.lang. From the 'big note' school of lounge room crooning. I tried to like it, but it's not for me. Constant Craving was OK for the first 70 million plays, but is just tiresome now.

meh, no me volvió loca pero fue decente para ser la primera vez que lo escucho.

Pleasantly surprised with this album. Didn’t think it was overall great but it had a nice tone, the singers voice is soothing and sounds wonderful. As for the songs they didn’t impress me but they sounded nice. 5.6/10

Kinda boring to me. Lang ain't my thang?

she has a really beautiful voice, but will probably not come back to this. This is very much something my parents would have listened to in the car when we were young

Which cruise line is right for you? Princess Cruises is supposed to be nice. I've gone on Norwegian when my rich grandmother paid for all of us to take a cruise for Christmas, and it is top-notch - that I can say that from personal experience. Carnival? - meh, I don't do keg stands or have little kids anymore but there was a time in my life that would've fit. I think your best chances of running in to K.D. Lang would be on Norwegian cruise lines. It's the cruise line for old people with lotsa money and a taste for vanilla. I bet she's the house music on all Norwegian cruises and probably performs for the young gray hairs at least once a week. I wonder how they get her from ship to ship. Or if she has to disembark, embark the way that normal passengers do. I would expect that from Wilson-Phillips, but not sure about the KDL. I found Ingenue perfect for the early '90s., KDL had some serious fashion style back then, yes she did. Her music right on par with a Norwegian cruise, very adequate on Gram's dime, but nothing you'd pay extra for. Regardless, after a long year quarrantining things are looking up and I'm sure there are a lot of excited people ready to be confined to a boat in hopes of running into the KDL. For me though, it's more likely you'd find me on a Carnival cruise binge drinking, avoiding my kids and constantly craving for solid ground than listening to this album again.

No me ha dicho nada...

I really don’t have much to say about k.d. lang. (Any relation to Brian Lang?) She has a nice voice, but it’s all so subdued. I don’t even have the right language to talk about the style of this album, I think. I will echo, though, that the hit single “Constant Craving” sounds quite different from the rest of the record. Mostly I was bored by “Ingenue,” nothing here grabbed my attention. It was capably made, and inoffensive, but didn’t stand out. I feel like there are a thousand other albums out there that sound much like this one without the same level of attention.

I like her voice and constant craving is still good but I really didn’t like the other songs on the album. Just not my sound.

Pleasant enough and inoffensive, but not something I would seek out to listen to in the future. K.D.’s voice is good, which I appreciate. However, musically this album is quite boring for me. I almost fell asleep walking to the metro. To end on a positive note, Miss Chatelaine is a decent song.

Not really my style, but it was ok. I'm not really even sure what kind of music it was to be honest.

Really enjoyed Miss Chatelaine, but that’s about it.

Heard about this woman previously on an Atmosphere track called 'Idiot' , Slug referenced her in some lyrics haha. Incidentally the first track sounds like it has influenced some of the later atmosphere beats that are more soft/chill. Nice singing and songs but not really my thing at all. So, 2/5

Felt a bit indifferent to this, good singer, some enjoyable parts of music her and there but only enjoyed 2 songs significantly

Almost really liked it. No rush to listen again though.

great voice, and actually alright (was dreading this). Not in a hurry to listen again, but can see how it did so well. Syrupy production.

A little dull

Didn’t love—I think it didn’t age well. Great voice and sweet songs, but not a huge fan of the songwriting style at places or the way the songs were put together. Mostly personal preference. It did have moments that surprised me, like “the mind of love”

Boring.

not bad, quite enjoyable but drags pretty soon and is quite irrelevant

Eh

Gentle folk pop. Not constantly craving it but constant craving is decent enough.

Didnt really dig it very much. While the music is fairly beautiful, it feels very surface level in a way.

Not a big fan to be honest

Horrible.

Mid.

It’s well recorded. But musically, it's like a beige sofa that is SO soft and un-engaging that it makes your whole body hurt.

A punishment

Keech

I’m a straight white male, this music isn’t for me.

No my thing

Crap. One extra point awarded for constant craving

This album sounds like the '90s, but a specific corner of the '90s that I don't normally listen to. I had never heard of this artist before, and not even the top single sounded familiar. Honestly, it's just not for me.

Dreadful... there's nothing that can make me listen to this in full. 'Constant Craving'? Don't think so. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Some (not much in fairness) Revisit ❌️ ★☆☆☆☆(2/10) Total reviewed : 357 Already owned : 79 Purchased : 16 To buy : 4 Nope : 258

Aburrido.

No va

Cabaret music was terrible when it was fashionable: mindless paste completely without interest, fun or merit. Why, why, WHY would you attempt to resurrect it?

not for me!

Dreary dreary me

My aesthetic inclinations do not align with Madam Lang.

Second album proposé par le générateur, aussi ennuyeux que le premier. =>1/5

I wanted to like it, but that didn’t even get me past the first song.

Absolutely not for me.

On s’ennuie je trouve

Never listened. Expectations: None - Verdict: Dislike - This isn't exactly blowing me away but I guess it's vaguely nice. A few tracks in and I'm a bit bored. So It Shall Be is OK I suppose. Outside Myself is decent but goes on slightly too long.

Beautiful voice, but not my vibe

I thought this may of been ok to listen to whilst driving to work as a bit of a chilled vibe. It just got under my skin, it felt like one song. It just didn’t have anything to offer me.

Not for me

She’s got a nice voice but this smooth 90s adult contemporary just doesn’t do it for me. It’s drab and I’d prefer to turn it off. The little cabaret-influenced bits have some ok moments, but overall it’s gonna be a no for me dawg.

Ho hum, another dull album to wade through. 'Constant Craving' is about the only song worth one listen. The rest is just tiresome bilge.

not for me.

77 minutes of trying not to fall asleep.

Adult Contemporary

This really just isn’t for me at all. Constant Craving is by far the best song on the album and I have never liked it. I just prefer some energy in my music.

1.4 1x not good and not interested to listen again.

1.4/5 Can't say I enjoyed this. She's a good singer and the music was fine but I nearly fell asleep listening to this.

1.5

I mean the first album was alright but this was like all over the place and was super flat and boring and will be very forgettable

Singing. 1/5

Not my jam

Naw

Couldn't be more bored.

Album 28 /1001 Apart from Outside Myself and the Johnny Marr esque guitar twang on Constant Craving, this really didn't do it for me. Sorry k.d. 🤷‍♂️ Though, you have inspired me to change my name. From this moment forth I shall be known as ed.d coppin (all lower case). Cheers, folks. 😎

I actually didn't listen to this album and never will. She just isn't my style of music

I’m really finding that this stripped back production only works for me when the singer has the vocal energy to back it up and k.d. lang doesn’t have it. This is not helped by how long this is. Truly a tedious listen, tho I am willing to give this album some flowers for “Outside myself” and “Constant Craving”, those are not enough to elevate it much, but hey, one goodish song with energy is better than none.

No, thank you.

If Norah Jones is a digestive biscuit - bland enough to dissolve before you’ve even noticed it’s in your mouth - and Céline Dion a vat of schmaltz dumped over your dinner, then k.d. lang’s Canadianised Americana, adulterated with Métis accordions and Parisian torch song touches, falls somewhere between the two. It's more butter than straight schmaltz and most of that is on the lens that took the soft-focused cover photo. But, as it happens, a digestive biscuit slathered in butter is a quiet indulgence of mine: humble at base, but I'm willing to let several make me sick. The songs themselves are so earnestly intimate they border on the absurd, but lang’s soft masculinity is charming, like a teenage girl's sexless love object. There's no threat here. The production is polished, though full of questionable choices. So too with the composition: on Season of Hollow Soul, lang repeats the same grammatical error as on Live and Let Die. It's faintly embarrassing, but it's preferrable to some of the more banal sentiments. You quickly learn the lesson of too much seemingly humble indulgence. 1.5 k d lang’s singing voice is as nondescript a voice as I’ve ever heard. So marked is the effect of vocal blankness that I feel a pang of doubt about writing that because despite having just listened to ten of her songs I can’t recall her voice at all. I am just left with the odd realisation that the English language has no power to capture positively what k d does. The defining qualities are only what isn’t there; accent, personality, edges, colour, air, life. She sang. There is so much else to not care about remembering here. Were there drums? I have no idea. There could have been lots of instruments - I have flashing recollections of violins, double bass, accordion - but their presentation was so clean and precise that they had an unreal quality. Like the bowl of plastic fruit my granny kept on her dining room table. It looked so real. I couldn’t believe it wasn’t. I tried a grape. Later I tried another grape just in case there had been a plastic one there by coincidence the first time. Every grape must have been a fake. The most plastic effect on Ingénue is k d when she does her backing vocals. They map so precisely to the main line and with so little variation in the ease of delivery whether up or down her range that they simply repulse. There is too much control here. Too little air allowed in. It leaves the impression of a very sanitary album. If there were real instruments none of them had any oul pathogens on them. All was safe and inoffensive. I do remember being slightly offended by The Mind of Love. It felt like a weak send-up of Joni Mitchell’s Jonicentrism. Mitchell was self-obsessed sure, but a great artist in her self-interrogations, certainly always good enough that she could never have written anything as trite as: ‘Surely help will arrive soon/ To cure these self-induced wounds/ Why hurt yourself Kathryn?’ So k d’s sneering joke didn’t land as far as I’m concerned. SNL-level stuff. It was meant to be a joke right? Well I don’t really care, let’s forget about it along with almost everything else here. Almost. Because there is one thing that will stay with me from this record. I was in the middle of listening to Season of Hollow Soul. I was thinking that this must already be one of the worst songs I had ever heard; a ghost of some forgotten German cabaret number tortured, half-captured in a summoning circle of pure bleach. Then the sudden wail of the clarinet. I should have seen it coming of course - the genre markers were there. Yet I felt a shiver of anticipatory horror go through me as when a slight, blurred movement in the background of the camera shot shows that the killer is in the house. ‘This couldn’t possibly be about to get worse,’ I told myself in that moment. The grotesque klezmer joke - the sad clown doing the deflating balloon about 6 times in a row - then the song immediately returned to its putrid chorus and hook, like a dog to its vomit. Later I actually listened again with the lyrics up to confirm that Season of Hollow Soul is indeed, objectively, one of the worst songs ever written and I should know because I’ve written a few of them. So that’s not nothing. Even if it’s a bit worse. 0.5/5

early 90's easy listening musak

I’m sure some people vibe to this and find this kind of music appealing, but I am not one of those people.

Meh

d.n.f

Oh my God that was awful.

Starting off Save Me arrives with a whimper and lyrically it's the kind of song that wants to be important and loved by everyone but K.d. Lang's voice grows irritating to me sounds whiny. It's a boring album that soccer moms and Karens listen to too make themselves seem cool but the album just plods along without offering anything to the listener but frustration for wasting their time on this crap. I couldn't even finish the damn album. Constant Craving is an awful song. It's the kind of crap you'd hear in Pottery Barn when it's full of people and you can't find a way out.

I really hated this. Whiny and dull. A terrible combination.

(Fart noise)

Bland.

Constant craving aside - I still do not get it - sorry

Dull

I tried really hard. Not my thing.

A truly painful listening experience. Favourite songs: Outside Myself Least favourite songs: most of this album 1/5

I don't like the album because its more like sad song doesn't hit the spot. But that's just my opinion and also don't like lyircs I don't understand what there saying. don't recommend it. sounds like old type music like back in the day.

Do you like Jazz country slow music? I really don't because I like music that is fast, and I rarely like Jazz. Also this is kinda like a love album. I don't like love songs either. So that is why I don't recommend this album.

I think this album is kind of bad. I don't really like the beat of the songs in the album or how slow it is. I don't recommend this song to people who like faster songs.

I fell asleep. It was great nap music.

So extremely boring and whiney. Couldn't get past the first 3-4 songs.

Nah

boring

kd. Krap dump. One of the most boring things I’ve ever heard.