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CD Review: Hannah Montana 2 - Meet Miley Cyrus
By Tom Patrick: 2007-06-27 20:06:41
"Like, oh my God, this album is totally super-mega cool" and a whole lot of other annoying gibberish is what I’d be saying, perhaps, if I were a prepubescent girl. Unfortunately I am not, and even if Hannah Montana (real name: Miley Cyrus, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus) reads this review and cries like a little girl--which wouldn’t be a far stretch considering she is a little girl--I’d still feel more sorry for myself for having listened to this album. Did I mention that Hannah Montana 2 is a two-disc torture, er, album? I almost cried like a little girl when I found that out! Truth be told, it’s really not too different from the ultra-pop, quasi-rock, punk crap you get from Avril Lavigne or Hilary Duff, with easy-to-sing-along-to melodies and generic lyrics, such as: "Maybe it’s your time to live life and fly/You won’t know if you never try/I will be there with you all of the way/You’ll be fine." Despite the almost total lack of poetic meter, doesn’t it just make you think of Shakespeare? It gets better: "Hey, hey, make some noise/hey, hey, ya!" … This part has more of a William Butler Yeats feel, wouldn’t you say? Hannah Montana 2 is the follow-up to Hannah Montana, which was the soundtrack for the first season of the Disney show called--you might have seen this coming--"Hannah Montana." The elaborate show is about a young girl who tries to lead a normal life despite being a superstar, and, you haven’t heard the best part, no one but her close friends and family know! So despite her fame and riches, she experiences the same trials and tribulations that average girls do. Doesn’t the idea put a warm feeling in your chest? By which I mean the sensation of your lunch on its way back up? In our world with Britney and Paris doing their part to show young women how not to live their lives, this album is probably not a bad thing for young girls, since Miley--or whoever wrote the lyrics--encourages the listeners to be themselves and go after their dreams. It would be somewhat impressive if Miley did participate in the composition of the music, but I suspect that she had little influence over the final product, being only 14 years old and all. This is just speculation, but it is funny to imagine some middle-aged musicians, whose dreams of a successful solo career have long been squashed, sitting around with guitars in their laps, rubbing their temples with their fingers and saying over and over: "I’m a teenage girl, I’m a teenage girl." All and all, it’s more the genre that turned my stomach than the music itself. As far as I can tell, the music--I can’t believe I’m writing this--could be construed as catchy and fun. And if you’re a parent, I don’t think the album’s influence will turn your little princess into a little whore, like some other female pop singers might.
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