Track Listing

1. Love Story
2. Over It
3. Open Toes
4. Home
5. Not Ur Girl
6. Each Other
7. Dangerous
8. Ordinary World
9. Do What You Do
10. Better off Alone
11. Neglected
12. Everywhere I Go

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12652 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Amazon.co.uk Review
Katharine McPhee has a cloudless voice and a warm, wide-eyed Alice in Wonderland quality that won her swarms of fans on American Idol's fifth season--if Simon Cowell had a ready antonym for "ghastly," there's little room for doubt about which contestant he would have applied it to. While debates over whether McPhee's considerable grace and talent should have won her the TV competition rage on across the Idol-viewing landscape, one thing's certain: she's made a debut album good enough to render such determinations meaningless. Katharine McPhee is an R&B-leaning pop disc that pulls the urgency and tenderness out of her voice and pins it smack in the center of each song. The slickly produced opener "Love Story" displays a certain swagger, and "Not Ur Girl" and "Open Toes" follow it up with still more spunk and attitude (something some McPhans asked to see more of on AI). If there's a crisp, smartly maneuvered Christina Aguilera-meets-Beyoncé-and-Mariah sensibility at work in those songs, the ballads belong to McPhee alone. "Somewhere over the Rainbow" made her a star on TV; "Ordinary World" and "Better off Alone" have the staying power to make her a star in music. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Pleasant Surprise!!! Fantastic
Im not the greatest fan of tv show stars but Katherine Mcphee has always had talent... This album is absolutely fantastic and showcases her voice to great lengths. There are upbeat songs like 'Dangerous', 'Open Toes', 'Love Story', slower ones 'Such as Better off alone' and 'Everywhere i go'. Its absolutely fantasic and i will preach that fact... A must buy for ppl with taste it music!!!

COOL I LIKE THIS ALBUM!!!
1. Love Story
2. Over It
3. Open Toes THIS ARE A FEW FAV TRAKS ... WHEN SHE WAS IN A.I ILIKET HOW SHE SINGD AND I AL SO LOVE NOW.... GO FOR IT Katharine McPhee!!!
4. Home
5. Not Ur Girl
6. Each Other
7. Dangerous

A lot better than you'd think
McPhee didn't win American Idol, but that didn't stop an outbreak of "McPheever" and the anticipation for her debut album offering.

The album seems a mixed bunch of slower, Mariah Carey moments and more up-beat, R'n'B pop moments, a move which seems calculated to both capitalise on her Idol popularity and take steps to create a new identity for herself at the same time. It's telling as well that there are undoubted highlights from both sides of that equation.

Particularly effective from the ballad side of things are Home and Ordinary World. Both display that McPhee has a voice worth listening to and are genuinely affecting songs. On the other side of things Open Toes, as cheesy as it is, is as good as anything Beyonce could come up (and is the kind of thing Britney's new album is calling out for) and if Joss Stone did something as souful as Love Story perhaps I wouldn't hate her as much. Then there is even a track like Neglected, which falls somewhere between the two stools but still manages to be a catchy tune, and has that all-important McPhee co-writing credit.

Of course she can't quite deliver a full album of great quality. There are too many by-the-manual numbers, such as Dangerous, which fail to spark and there is that nagging feeling that as of yet, McPhee hasn't got a "sound" to call her own. Still, as a debut album from a reality TV star goes, this is an enjoyable experience and proof that with the right breaks, Katherine McPhee might just be in it for the long-term.