Ingenue

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.

Oh my god this is so boring

not my style of music and i didn't like his voice

Nah

Did not care at all for this album or her other works.

Um álbum muito dependente do vocal da artista, e eu não consegui gostar do mesmo. Instrumentais genéricos, melodias muito pouco interessantes e no geral uma experiência bem vazia Fav tracks: n/a Least fav track: Miss Chatelaine

Actually couldn't listen to it all.

Album #15 Listening to paint dry. Interesting to compare all the other songs to the charted song "Constant Craving" as I have never heard the other songs. What made CC more appealing to the masses compared to the other tracks as they all sound the same to me now? As consumers are we trained to like a song by the constant air play (especially 30 years ago when all we had was radio play) because in my opinion after listening to the entire album, all the tracks including CC is like listening to paint dry but CC evokes an emotional/situational memory because of the radio play.

Not a fan of KD Lang

Not a fan

meh kind of bored

I honestly liked her first record way better. This one feels like it sorta loses the plot. The production is better, but I liked the style of the first so much better. This one came off as very repetitive. Favorites were Save Me, Miss Chatelaine, and Constant Craving.

El cenizo pelúo éste quién es?

Don't think I'm the target demographic for this sort of bland nonsense so it's not too surprising that I struggled.to engage with it.

I hate this album. I tried my damnedest to get through it.

A cross between country music and elevator music. Not good.

I don’t like KD Lang’s music. Could have taken a nap while listening. So very boring.

Constant Craving oli suunnilleen perus-ok ralli, mutta tämä artisti nauttii banaaliudesta niin paljon, että hänelle tuskin tulisi edes mieleen säveltää toista vastaavaa.

Not for me

Zooooooooo saaaaaaaaaaaiiii en troosteloos. Dit zou verboden moeten worden.

A one or one.five

Listened from the other room and that was already too much. Blergh

I hate it

Just blows. What a terrible album. Would go negative if I could.

Not for me.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Music for a dentist’s office.

Oofa

Yes. It's pop.

Couldnt continue listening to it, very dull

This album was not great. Constant Carving sounded familiar. I did not particularly care for this album. It was only 42 minutes but that in itself seemed a little long. I did not skip any songs but that is mainly because I was playing Tetris. My Tetris playing did decrease during the listening of the album. It was better than a one but not really a two. I will round down.

not my thing honestly

This one doesn’t have enough goin on

Not a fan of this at all.

new music but a huge meh too much old lady like for me to enjoy

Verste dritten. Ikke gi meg mer.

PogTrash

its been a while since we had something i dislike as much as this. fucking awful.

I once sexed k d lang so hard, her ass prolapsed into oblivion. It was a fun Tuesday morning. Nobody died.

Utterly shit lesbo non-music. Made me sick. Did not listen.

Dull, middle of the road, one paced music for middle aged Volvo driving, geography teachers. Calling it beige would be a disservice to the colour beige.

no! none of it. i'm not even sure I'm going to be able to finish this. fate must have a reason. why ELSE endure this album?

What's the most boring thing you can think of? You're wrong. It's this. Best Tracks: Save Me; Miss Chatelaine; Constant Craving

Ok

какая-то софия ротару я не слушаю такое

Très chiant!

Not for me. I can't find any significance in this album whatsoever. There's nothing memorable here for me, even in the slightest, and I can't even suggest it's a good album. Perhaps it's just a snapshot of a weird moment and style in musical history.

F'n Boring

Not for me. With the exception of that one cheesy song that might be good in a skate edit

Worse than I could have ever imagined.

This is a weird album. I know constant craving. Most of the other songs on the album sound totally different and have an odd bossa nova thing going on that I didn’t expect.

Not my thing.

not for me.

Thought it was a bit pretentious tbh. Might be worth another listen but I was left feeling just meh.

n/a

Rubbish

Nice voice. Crap songs.

Shit

Snorkolini

KD - I am embarrassed for you. This is so sappy. I don’t believe in cancel culture but if I did the first thing I would cancel is this album.

I forgot I was listening to this while it was on, the musical equivalent of a draught on your neck in a restaurant. The last one about how hungry she is is ok.

Listened to more than half, but then quickly skipped through the rest as I couldn't take it any more. Not for me. Though Constant Craving is a good song.