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Husky-voiced Billie Myers was discovered in a London club by a producer who saw her dancing and suggested that if she could sing as well as she moved her hips, she should give him a call. The seemingly tacky pickup line was actually a legitimate business proposition, and three years later Myers has a major-label debut to show for it. Produced by Desmond Child (not the initial dance-club Casanova, in case you were wondering), Growing Pains is a standard-issue MOR rock record, clinging to every plodding '80s aesthetic in the book. Smoldering guitar chords, synthetically programmed drum rhythms, and big splashy choruses earmark the disc, while Myers does her best to sound like a predictable cross between Alanis Morissette and Joan Armatrading. On "A Few Words Too Many," she conjures the indistinct balladry of John Waite, while on "Tell Me" she gets "exotic," thanks to the accompaniment of a flute and sitar. Sgt. Pepper, this ain't. The funk-lite of "The Shark and the Mermaid" is slightly less annoying, but it's too little, too late in an album that willingly redefines the standards of blandness. --Aidin Vaziri
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By Sweet Butterfly (Minnesota)
When I ordered the cd, it was a last minute thing, and I was so impressed at how quickly it came. I was very happy with that!! I was told the average wait would be a couple weeks and it came in 3 days!! Very good seller to work with, quick and efficient. The cd was brand new and in the plastic still for a great price.
By Callie Lucas (north of seattle)
I love the music, she is so talented. I had purchased this CD years ago, and lost it. I searched hard to find it again and was happy when I found it, but that quickly changed when I received it and it can only play on my husbands surround sound system. It won't play in my truck or on any of my players.
By Bradley Jacobson
I love this album - in fact it is probably one of my favorite albums ever released. Starting with the infectious and so sad it's fun "Kiss The Rain" - a haunting tale of jealousy and longing for a lover whose far away, "go outside, kiss the rain.. whenever you need me/ if your lips feel empty and tempted/ kiss the rain and wait for the dawn/ keep in mind we're under the same sky/ and the nights as empty for me as for you/ hello? do you miss me? I hear you say you do but not the way I'm missing you/ would it mean anything if you knew what I'm left imagining..." the album moves into more of this territory as Billie's sexy soulful alto takes you through every aspect of her heart and soul - the lyrics point more to a poetry than a standard pop song lyric and she pulls it all off beautifully.
The heartbreak drama of "A Few Words Too Many", (wait a minute what did you say/ did you say there's no real reason for you to stay/ I hear you talking but you're just not making sense/ I've been waiting for a happy ending/ now I know that there won't be any/ just a few words too many in my head) and "Please Don't Shout" (please don't shout/ it's only anger that you're waking/ please don't shout/ can't you see I'm not listening), the hilarious love triangle of "Having Trouble With The Language" ("she looked better in her black dress but you looked better dead..") and the sex filled "Tell Me" which has such clever lyrics you completely forget they're borderline dirty - "Tell Me, how would it feel to be me/ I wanna crawl under your skin/ I want to know how it feels in me, yeah, yeah," and set to an Egyptian type background melody. This is the ultimate break up album, though if you are going through one you may put this one with a little trepedation, it may leave you slightly satisfied knowing someone else can conjure up the words you're thinking or it may just push you over the edge and leave you a huddled blubbering mass on the floor, but then you could always just put the Go Gos back on.
Either way it leaves you feeling, it leaves you feeling something and that's fairly rare in music these days so if you don't have this album, I can't recommend it enough.
By Merrick (NY)
Well i only like one song off the whole CD unfortunately. Bought it for my girlfriend and she agrees... only good track is Kiss the Rain. In my opinion of course.
By Trinity L. Hall (USA)
...I can only echo what many of the other reviewers have said: Billie Myers has an amazing voice. It's not your every day over-produced and polished one either. This album is incredible and I'm still surprised, almost ten years later, that it wasn't bigger than it was. But maybe that's a good thing, huh? A Few Words Too Many makes me cry every time, The Shark and The Mermaid is candy for the ears and imagination, and I'm also pretty fond of "Don't Shout" and "Mother, Daughter, Sister, Lover". Kiss the Rain is what made me buy it, the rest stands on it's own. It's ultimately singable, and the perfect music for a rainy day around the house, or a long drive in the car.
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