Some of those pictures are so beautiful.  Amazing...not that she doesn't always look good.  But it's amazing the girl in the video blog with the sunglasses on turns into this....that didn't come out right.

And yeah...great song.  Can they replace Dangerous with this?  Too late?  Oh well.  Just take Dangerous out, put Me in.  And the CD is perfect!

But let's not go into the...oh, this is what her CD should be thing, please?  Katharine doesn't want to be Norah Jones.  I think her comment about "Ordinary World" being her least favorite song on the CD and the other time when she said that she actually wanted MORE dance tracks on her CD tell you that.

Now, that doesn't mean I don't love this song.  Of course I do.  But she has stuff like this on her CD.  You've heard Better Off Alone & Home, right?  (I almost called it Better Off Home...Better Off Home Alone, maybe?)  Yeah...so let's not get lost in the facts here.  She didn't want an album full of this kind of thing.  Not that she doesn't like this kind of thing.

But as I said...she doesn't want to be Norah Jones.  She wants to be Mariah Carey or Christina Aguilera.

Just to add to this...I sort of mentioned this above but.  Kat's album isn't overproduced.  I could point you to a lot of examples out there that ARE overproduced.  A lot of what people think is overproduction is just a style of producing music these days that is described above better than I can do it.

Kat made a choice to do a pop/R&B album.  And she did a great job doing that.  If you wanted something else, that's fine.  But...I think it's pretty obvious Katharine wanted to prove to everyone that she could make a Top 40 record.  She said as much as the finale when she sang BHATCT.  EVERYONE knows she can do stuff like "Me" in her sleep.  And it is fantastic.  But I think (as she's said before) she wanted to do something that "kids my age" would want to listen to.  She doesn't think that it's this.  At least not heavy doses of this.

As a matter of fact I do think there's some stuff on the album that is pushing the "dreadful crap" description, but that's just me, and I'm not trying to second guess RCA or katharine about what she needs to do to be a successful recording artist. If she wants to stay around, she's gotta do what she's gotta do. And she's fine with that. She wants to be a pop star. Okay. I get it. And although I admit to nearly having a stroke the first time I heard Open Toes, I now find myself humming and singing it at odd times because it's growing on me. I'm even coming to terms with Do What You Do, even though its lyrics irritate the hell out of me for some reason. (Dangerous makes me cringe for a rather different reason.) This is part of my ongoing education. I'm learning about contemporary pop music, which I would never have done without Katharine.

I've heard people say they like the "Me" cover but would have been bored to tears with an entire album of that sort of thing. I wouldn't. But I'm not going to get what I want, so I'm learning to like what I get. That's a good way to stay sane. Maybe part of it is just that, after listening to a lot of what's popular today on places like TRL and YouTube--both of which were Unexplored Territory to me a year ago--I've decided Katharine's album totally beats the bejeebers out of a lot, maybe most, of it. That's called getting some perspective. Who knows, maybe some of these days she and Fergie will do a rap duet and I'll even learn to appreciate that. 

Kat made a debut record that fans of any age would luv besides something for Top 40.  She's done  that. I assume it was Kat's choice to make this fab cover of 'Me". Is it Top 40 material. Is it Nora Jones? Is it for fans her age?  Kat is showing her VERSATILITY performing a song like "Me" and she said that she LIKED it. 

A friend of mine who is a Nora Jones fan said, "I have to say I like Kat's album better.  Nora's new album is kind of boring!"  If Kat were to record a whole album of only dance songs or only ballads, pleeze, no, that would be boring too.  And Kat must know that though 'Ordinary World' is her least favorite, she'd perform it if I requested that, because "the customer is always right."

this song is soooooo good, i haven't stopped listening to it for 2 days now....just her and a guitar - it is what she is meant to do - ultimately. no question this kind of music, these types of songs are her calling.

when i heard this (i'll date myself) - i immediately thought of the late eva cassidy (jazz/blues) singer - but Kat has even more depth to her voice....I would KILL (well not kill) to hear her sing Joni Mitchell songs...i wish sarah mclaughlin hadn't grabbed River....but Kat could sing any of Joni's songs and take them to a whole new level that hasn't been done before....

No matter how good this is - I agree with you, Minnie - she was right to put out a Top 40/Pop R&B album first. The more people that hear her, the better and that's what her CD is all about. It is a GREAT debut CD and it opens the door to Pop which will lead to other things....eventually down the line.....she will have to do a CD with these types of songs....

Here's the thing with "Me" and how it relates to what Katharine can do.  I think a part of the reason many of us enjoy he so much is because she can sing so many different kinds of songs.  And that's what she tried to do on her album.  Some people think that's a sign that she doesn't know who she is as an artist or whatever.  I think it makes her album more interesting.  Maybe you don't like "Do What You Do" or "Open Toes"....you'll probably like "Ordinary World" then.  Or maybe you don't like "Better Off Alone"....perhaps you should try "Not Ur Girl".  I like all of it but...and I really love "Me".

I'm happy to have another Kat song to add to my Kat Playlist on my IPod.

Since the "bored to tears" comment was mine let's elaborate on that....I don't want an album full of the same type of stuff straight through no matter what it is.  That's one criticism I have with Chris Daughtry's album.  No it isn't all the same stuff BUT...and I haven't listened to it 100's of times but I can't tell a lot of the songs apart.  They all sound good but some of them sound the same.  You can't say that about Kat's album.