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When contestants belt their hearts out on American Idol, it's become almost just as fun as watching the show, to anticipate not only what kind of album they're going to make once the show is over, but how the public will like them when they're not singing someone else's songs. Katharine McPhee is really the first American Idol contestant that really and truly looks like an American Idol. Carrie Underwood is quite beautiful, but Katharine is a bombshell. So I'm sure RCA felt they had a potential goldmine in signing this girl to their label–someone who could so easily fit into today's pop market. Katharine's self-titled debut surely does fit into today's pop market, as does her look, but I think the sound of her CD is going to come as quite a shock to most people who voted for her on American Idol, and even those that didn't. The album boasts a multitude of pop tracks, some uptempo dance songs like the fun and funky soundtrack-bound "Love Story", some midtempo like the infectious "Not Ur Girl" and catchy premiere single "Over It", and some beautiful ballads like the soulful "Better Off Alone" and "Each Other". It's interesting because reading a lot of reviews of the album, most reviewers barely even mention the tracks on the record. It's usually an overall criticism of the direction that she went in with the album, her personality, or just some mess that doesn't really make any sense that they cut and pasted from comments someone made on a gossip blog. That's not to say that the album is perfect, but judging from some of the early reviews you'd think McPhee delivered a dud, and for a debut album this is anything but. Hell, I would preferred to have her sing an album full of jazz standards and Barbra Streisand type ballads too, but the reality is that if she had done that–she would've flopped, faded faster than Taylor Hicks' hair and that would've been the end of the McPheever. Katharine knows what she's doing, and at least if she was going to make a pop/R&B and dance record, it's good that she made a very enjoyable one. And maybe after she's gained some clout with the success of this album, on the next one she can pull a Christina Aguilera and do something still pop but much more experimental. With all of that said, there are many tracks on this album that you'll have on repeat, and some which might make you chuckle. "Do What You Do", though a fun track, is something that Fergie should've recorded and then rejected from her album because it wasn't good enough. And the fact that Katharine McPhee, the "Som