Author: Presley, Lisa Marie

Details: Amazon.ca Whatever you think of Lisa Marie Presley—serial bride, Scientologist, Elvis’s daughter (and let’s not even mention Michael Jackson)—you can’t deny the girl has guts. That was apparent with her long-awaited 2003 recording debut, To Whom It May Concern, but it’s even more obvious with her sophomore album, the appropriately titled Now What. Though the collection of rockers and ballads reprises the portrait of Presley as an explosively angry woman who feels jumpy in her own skin, it also frames her as a passionate artist with a brilliantly wicked sense of humor and a gift for language (often shamelessly profane), even if the subtleties of her concepts are sometimes opaque. Most of all, the album—tougher, hookier, and more sure of itself than the last one—proves she’s serious about a pop-rock career, although her songs are so personal, bitter, and internal it’s hard to imagine anyone covering them. Still, she relies heavily on collaborators to help her craft her melodies, most often Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes, who worked wonders in polishing the songs of Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, and Pink, who shows up here in a duet on "Shine." As before, Presley’s Cher-like vocals are so heavily processed, layered, and tuned that it’s hard to know what she really sounds like, an oddly glossy counterpoint to her scornful and brutally honest lyrics. But one suspects there’s still a softie in there somewhere. She opens a wide window on her vulnerability on the wrenchingly painful "When You Go" and in the alcoholic haze of "High Enough." Throughout the album, Elvis’s little girl curls her lip as if to say "I’ve been through a lot of (expletive deleted), I can give as good as I get, and don’t you dare come too (expletive deleted) close!" But as "High Enough" secretly says, you know she hopes you’ll try. --Alanna Nash

UPC: 724386078728

EAN: 0724386078728

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: Used