Unlike most of her cocharting cofemales, Ullman has undertaken a conscious genre exercise--she plays girl-group tradition for naive if not dumb passivity. The songs new and old are tuneful and right, the production exquisitely not-quite-schlocky, but just-compare her "Bobby's Girl" to Marcie Blaine's original--Ullman sings with too much force and skill to make the conceit convincing. On the other hand, it's probably her musical conscience that saves the project from unmitigated "ironic" condescension. "They Don't Know" did hit at face value, after all. B+
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 3:01:38 AM
No.127356214
>>127357192
>>127356067 (OP)
Imagine being this woman and knowing your entire legacy was being chewed up and spit out by a fucking cartoon.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 3:07:41 AM
No.127356248
ah yes the early 80s girl group revival fad
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 5:03:59 AM
No.127357097
>>127356067 (OP)
They Don't Know is fuckin beautiful. Love that song
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 5:05:54 AM
No.127357116
>>127357222
>>127356067 (OP)
Retro pastiche is always lame and it goes back further than you think; there's no organic development for it, just some (possibly nostalgic) record suit who forces the stuff.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 5:16:46 AM
No.127357192
>>127356214
She was hot but unfortunately yeah the rest of her life was an absolute laughingstock.
