2008 Woodie Awards
Album Review: Tina Digeorge
Erin Guild
Issue date: 9/22/04 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Looking for a new listen, a new artist to satisfy your craving for some new eclectic pop music? For some, this discovery may have finally been made. Tina Digeorge has been in the music industry since the age of 12 but recently has veered off into her solo career, using her conceptual lyrical formations to reflect her views and express her ironic outlook. Her genre of music is one that cannot be easily defined but if one must categorize her, I would suggest that she be labeled as contemporary yet alternative rock.
Her album, titled Deconstruction of a Light Travele,r has an assorted mix of songs ranging from Shadows and Too Far. Although a great attempt at proving her musical aptitude, all the songs have similar sound and parallel guitar riffs and solos from each other's songs. The first song on the album entitled Too Far has amazing potential to speak to its listeners and undoubtedly draw them into a world of melancholy and spiteful disenchantment. However, there is another side to this story.
Nowadays, any randomly chosen person can express incite into the human psyche by becoming a rock star. Many musicians take it upon themselves to dictate to the world, the views they have, and believe others should share. In turn, emotional teenage musicians, gathering from their slight amount of life experience, attempt, as Digeorge does, to share all the lessons they have learned through intimate lyrics and mystifyingly unintentional confusion.
Basically, these songs just do not cut it because they break all the rules set forth by anyone who truly knows music. To write a good song one must be a good songwriter, interpreter, and maker, and she is lacking in these areas. If she did have the adequate ability, she would try to reach her listeners in more simple manners, because teenagers are more likely to sing lyrics rather then take the time to interpret them. She should not stop being unique and confusing in her individualistic way, but she might want to think about what the listener will feel when they hear the song, and make sure they will understand the multitude of the song, rather then turn it off because of its sheer hysteria.
Her album, titled Deconstruction of a Light Travele,r has an assorted mix of songs ranging from Shadows and Too Far. Although a great attempt at proving her musical aptitude, all the songs have similar sound and parallel guitar riffs and solos from each other's songs. The first song on the album entitled Too Far has amazing potential to speak to its listeners and undoubtedly draw them into a world of melancholy and spiteful disenchantment. However, there is another side to this story.
Nowadays, any randomly chosen person can express incite into the human psyche by becoming a rock star. Many musicians take it upon themselves to dictate to the world, the views they have, and believe others should share. In turn, emotional teenage musicians, gathering from their slight amount of life experience, attempt, as Digeorge does, to share all the lessons they have learned through intimate lyrics and mystifyingly unintentional confusion.
Basically, these songs just do not cut it because they break all the rules set forth by anyone who truly knows music. To write a good song one must be a good songwriter, interpreter, and maker, and she is lacking in these areas. If she did have the adequate ability, she would try to reach her listeners in more simple manners, because teenagers are more likely to sing lyrics rather then take the time to interpret them. She should not stop being unique and confusing in her individualistic way, but she might want to think about what the listener will feel when they hear the song, and make sure they will understand the multitude of the song, rather then turn it off because of its sheer hysteria.