Scarlett Johansson’ Debut Album

Been listening to the album for some time now, and I think it’s fucking brilliant. Kudos to her for not going down the same tired path of other actors who have tried their hand at music. It could’ve been so easy for her to hook up with some rapper and spit out some mindless bullshit to a crappy pop/R&B tune. I think this album –a Tom Waits tribute– is absolutely fantastic. It’s dark, moody, dreamy and extremely well crafted. Now, fuck off all haters, because this album is amazing. It’s been getting mostly great reviews, but people can’t seem to get over the fact that Scarlett Johansson has created an amazing tribute album.

The video to Falling Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmzUOvgNYVw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmzUOvgNYVw

That was fucking horrible.

Even the album cover looks like it was made with a cheesy Photoshop tutorial.

Nuh uh!

Not a bad song, pretty good actually, definatly not what i had thought she’d sound like.

Goddammit! She is smokin hot too, ehh…

Yeah, her voice takes you by surprise. She’s blonde, tall, sexy, but her voice doesn’t sound anything like you’d expect from someone like her.

This music reminds me of a seizure I once had.

The seizure of goodness, I am sure.

Anyway, people so easily dismiss someone like her, and I think it’s a shame. Honestly, it’s nothing like Jared Leto’s music, or Lindsay Lohan’s. It’s a well-crafted album.

i love scarlett so maybe i am biased

i really didn’t hate it at all, i’m surprised.

I listened to Anywhere I Lay My Head a few times, and this video.

It really is pretty dull I feel. She’s taken awesome Tom Waits songs and put them in rather lacklustre, distant and flat sounding interpretations that don’t really seem to work. I wish I could say I liked it, because I’m keen on anyone who digs Tom Waits and wants to pay tribute to the man and try something different and all, but it really doesn’t grab me.

Gets a big meh from me. I’m pretty sure anything beyond Ghost World and Lost in Translation regarding Scarlett has failed to interest me tho.

i think the only reason that i was surprised was that i was expecting something around the standard of lindsay lohan’s album or something ;O

That was fucking horrible.

Even the album cover looks like it was made with a cheesy Photoshop tutorial.

I agree, it sounded like they added a shit-ton of reverb to make it sound like her voice really doesn’t suck.

I’d still fuck her though.

I’m a huge Tom Waits fan, and I thought this was an extremely unnecessary endeavor. The production is absolutely beautiful, but Scarlett’s voice can’t carry it. It’s deep, the range is small, and she has little volume. Because of this, the album, for me, has no replay value. It’s only value is the intrigue factor. Plus, Dave Sitek did David Bowie’s voice the injustice of mixing it lower than Scarlett’s, which, because she has no volume, meant that Bowie’s voice was almost inaudible.

That song’s awful. I listened to the Tom Waits’ version and that was bearable but this is just bad. Her voice is generic, the song is generic, and it sounds like they recorded it in a gigantic booming room with terrible acoustics or something since there is terrible reverb and background noise.

I wanted to like it, too.

also, I think it’s about equal to Lindsay Lohan’s stuff. :/

I think Tom Waits fans where going to hate this album no matter how it turned out, I probably would have, had it been a tribute to Grace Jones. But to be completely honest, I love it. I love her voice. Yeah, it’s deep and may lack range, but I still find it strangely appealing.

Here’s her first live performance of the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8SJFWSei7I

Man, Zulu, I love the way her voice keeps cracking! Obvious signs she’s not singing in the correct octave.

How anyone can like this is beyond me.

I think Tom Waits fans where going to hate this album no matter how it turned out.

You make it seem like anyone who tries to cover Tom Waits will be instantly fobbed off by a Tom Waits fan. I’ve heard a bunch of covers of Tom Waits songs that reinterpret the song or even just try to duplicate it and most of them have been better than this. Just because it might not be the same as, or as great as Tom Waits doesn’t mean I can’t dig it.

You’re in the minority in liking it, and that’s fine. Enjoy! I guess it just kinda bugs me that you think people are so blinded by Waits love that we can’t just genuinely not like this.

If it’s any consolation, I reckon that live rendition is kinda okay, which tells me that the flat album production is really not helping.

How many cuts are there on the cd?
what’s her carrier single?

How many cuts are there on the cd?
what’s her carrier single?

Did you read the dictionary with 1001 terms to make it in the music industry?

Its not often a debut album is also the last album, but in this case it is.

Thats a future general triva questions folks, remember the answer will be scarlett johansson.

I’ll admit, I was extremely disappointed with this.

And what gets me the most is that Ms. Johansson IS a good singer. If you have heard her cover of Gershwin’s "Summertime," you know that the woman has a beautiful voice. But the amount of reverb and the lower register used on this album do her no favours. I know she can do better than this, and in that I am disappointed with this album.

Scarlett has an interview with Deborah Harry up on MySpace for their Artist to Artist series.

I almost can’t describe how bad this so-called album is, but I’ll give it a short go:

I listened to it and regretted it way too much.
I heard Scarlett, who can’t sing, and she attempts to sing hilariously bad Tom Waits covers. The combination of someone who’s simply not good at singing and raping good Waits songs = it’s incredibly painful.

It may be well produced and all (according to the typical NME idiots), but well produced crap is still crap!