BareNaked

EMAIL PRINTby Jennifer Love Hewitt

6.8 User Score:

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Album Info

Label: Jive

Release Date: 08 October 2002

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Pop

Summary

Film and television actress Jennifer Love Hewitt actually had begun her recording career prior to appearing on "Party of Five," but never achieved the success in music that she did on screen. This latest album, coming as her popularity is increasing and utilizing the production talents of Meredith Brooks, represents perhaps her last chance at pop stardom.

What The Critics Said

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Q Magazine

Admittedly, her FM-friendly singalongs aren't rocket science, just fantastically effective. [May 2003, p.109]

Blender

There's little to indicate an intrinsic personality unusual enough to demand your attention. [#10, p.118]

Rolling Stone

The funniest thing since Ravyn-Symone's Here's to New Dreams.

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Entertainment Weekly

Amounts to nothing more than a party of five million bland cliches. [11 Oct 2002, p.82]

CDNow

Hewitt's problem on BareNaked, ironically, is that she lacks "it." Whatever magnetism she carries on screen, whatever eye-candy poise she possesses; it all comes off as vanilla in her music.

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E! Online

It all amounts to the kind of mediocre girl pop-rock about dreams and stuff that one writes when they want to be Vanessa Carlton or Michelle Branch but don't really know how.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 36 User Votes

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Martin J gave it a0:
never release an album again!

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
I absolutly love her singing talent..Go Love Go!! I adore this CD....and it's not just because she's hot

Nick V gave it a9:
How can anyone not like this album? OK, around the middle, the songs tend to sound the same. But if you extract each one out of its context (this album), you have a good song each time. Of those middle selections "Rock the Roll" is excellent. Arrangements are outstanding, with a tasty touch of timely rap. (And I don't even like rap!) The album starts off with what should have been 2 rather powerful hit singles. (No song here hit the Billboard Hot 100). Then you have the ever beautiful "You", which shows that Jennifer has versatility in her singing, and can pull off any style or genre with equal effectiveness. Let's get this straight right now - THIS GIRL CAN SING! She has a God-given talent no doubt, and it's so obvious by listening to her albums that she works hard on it. She doesn't dog it at anytime. She gives it her all in each song! Now to the end of the album. "Avenue of the Stars" is one of the most brilliant, most outstanding songs I've ever heard in my life. Fantastic (and complicated) melody, going off in different directions yet all working so incredibly well synergistically. This should have been a hit, and go to #1 and stay there for 20 weeks! POWERFUL song! Can't get tired of it. The album ends with our lovely JLH paying tribute to one of her all-time favorite singers Janis Joplin. Janis herself had taken this Kris Kristofferson penned classic to #1 in 1971. Sadly it was a posthumous hit for her. Jennifer's interpretation of this classic takes a different direction yet stays loyal to the original hit version. She even does a brief Janis impression at the end of the song where theres laughter from her & the people there watching this performance. In fact, the laughter that you hear her do at the end of each of the last two songs are alone worth the money for this CD. To sum it all up, there is nothing but 'heart', passion, & dedication in this album. Jennifer Love Hewitt, thank you for this great album. This album should be in everybody's collection!

john g gave it a10:
This is good relaxing music to listen to and tap your feet

Kris P gave it a10:
I remember before buying Jennifer's album I listened to the first single "Barenaked" a few times before buying and felt like, "you know, this has great promise to it. I have a hunch that if this single's that good then when the album comes out I'll be in for a treat." The single didn't steer me wrong. This a good, solid, complete album. When I say complete I mean that every song is a good song that's fun to listen to and if were released as a single would likely be a hit. I love this album. I listen to it often and enjoy it every time I do. This is a CD I'm always going to treasure in my collection. I just wish more people would give it a chance. There's my two cents. Great album!

tim x gave it a0:
People are rating this high because she's hot? This is terrible!!

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
who cares that the music is bad...shes HOTT

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