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Genre:
Country
Release Date: 05/20/2008
Faded celebrities turn to
Dancing with the Stars with the intent of reviving their careers, so it's only appropriate that
Julianne Hough, one of the show's professional dancers, attempts to reverse engineer that logic by using
Dancing to launch a career as a singer. Logic learned from
American Idol dictates that any pretty wholesome girl or guy with all-American good looks is automatically a
country singer, and so Utah native
Hough is packaged as a spunky, irrepressibly chipper
country-pop thrush, the kind of
country-pop that fits
Hough even when she's singing songs of heartbreak.
Hough's producer,
David Malloy, casts the bubbly blonde as the love-struck girl next door or the faithful confidant who offers sensible advice to her wayward best friend, as heard across nearly the entire second half of the album on tracks like
"Hello," "Help Me, Help You," and
"Love Yourself." ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
;)
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