Review: Taylor Hicks
Taylor Hicks 'Taylor Hicks': Aidin Vaziri | Maybe we were a bit too hard on the guy. Just because he dances like an idiot, spits when he sings and looks a bit like Jay Leno doesn't mean Taylor Hicks is pure evil, does it? But the unlikely fifth-season champ of "American Idol" isn't going to win anyone over with this bland self-titled debut, a tribute to white middle-of-the-road soul men like Joe Cocker and Michael McDonald. Produced by Matt Serletic (Santana, Rob Thomas) and emblazoned with a huge frown, the album glosses over the crooner's clumsy quirks and instead offers up a businesslike mix of expected covers and underwhelming synth-blues originals in search of a bad '80s beer commercial to blare behind. Somewhere out there, an Alabama dive bar is missing its happy hour headliner.
posted by Aidin at Sunday, December 31, 2006
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