{"id":3055,"date":"2010-10-20T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2010-10-20T22:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T05:14:43","slug":"check-this-pretty-lady-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/10\/20\/check-this-pretty-lady-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Check this pretty lady out… Malanna Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Malanna Monroe
\nA Musical Reflection of Your Light<\/em>
\nSelf Released, 2010
\nmyspace.com\/malanna<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviewed by Kent Manthie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hailing from Tennessee, USA, but with stops along the way in Detroit and Louisiana. Her new CD, a refreshing little DIY thing called A Musical Reflection of Your Light<\/em>, is out now and a generous sampling of some tunes from it are on her MySpace page.
\n I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect before I listened to the songs – would it be bubble gum pop? An obvious puppet of record company Mafia Nazis, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover an independent minded and talented songwriter who happens to be quite lovely and has an equally lovely voice.
\n The music, as described by Malanna on her MySpace profile page reads \u201cPop\/Powerpop\/Rock\u201d, which I guess is not a wrong description. But I don\u2019t think I\u2019d really label it \u201cRock\u201d – it\u2019s more laid back, pop music and being from the country music hub, those influences obviously – consciously or otherwise – rub off on her. But if it\u2019s not country, not rock and sorta pop, what is it? I\u2019d stick with the \u201cpop\u201d label because that\u2019s a wide ranging label – this isn\u2019t anything experimental or groundbreaking or iconoclastic, but it\u2019s a twist on the typical female pop stars style that most people are used to – Britney Spears and that ilk. Malanna is more mature, smarter and seems to not care if she gets her picture in People<\/em> or Entertainment Weekly<\/em>.
\n Songs I\u2019d recommend as good samples are: \u201cCrazy World\u201d, \u201cBreak Free\u201d and \u201cWanna Know How I Feel\u201d. Unfortnately, a couple songs sounded almost like they were spewing Christian-tinged dogma around, like a stuffed bunny, but one can forgive the innocent religious delusions. She\u2019s still young. But seriously, the words are really incidental to me, I pay attention more to how the voice sounds qua voice, not exactly what the lyrics are saying, although sometimes that is a major part of it. You have to balance the good and the negative and see how it ends up weighing\u2026in this case it passed the test and I say – right on! It never hurts to just jump into something totally new – in fact it\u2019s often refreshing, like jumping into the ocean on a hot day – you get a chill for an instant and then the water feels so great; that\u2019s the best analogy I can think of – hope it works for you.
\n-KM<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malanna Monroe A Musical Reflection of Your Light Self Released, 2010 myspace.com\/malanna Reviewed by Kent Manthie Hailing from Tennessee, USA, but with stops along the way in Detroit and Louisiana. Her new CD, a refreshing little DIY thing called A Musical Reflection of Your Light, is out now and a generous sampling of some tunes from it are on her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1084,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2009\/07\/17\/all-female-alterna-rock-efs\/","url_meta":{"origin":3055,"position":0},"title":"all female alterna-rock EFS","author":"admin","date":"July 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Excuses For Skipping Out of Work EarlyReview by J. 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