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Album:
Beautiful Hits
Genre:
Pop
Review:
If the past 24 months were particularly groundbreaking for you, then you’ll look at these songs as the ones most played in the background whether you liked them or not. Seeing how things are going in the real world (world-turning economic crises, world-beating presidential election) – you’re either a hermit just listening to the radio or 14-years-old and discovering puberty.
That’s probably the perfect age to discover songs like “Home” (Westlife), “Inconsolable” (Backstreet Boys) and “Until the End of Time” (Justin Timberlake) on school bus radio, too. Or maybe party tracks like Chris Brown and T-Pain’s “Kiss Kiss” or Good Charlotte’s spunky rooster anthem, “I Don’t Wanna Be In Love” appealed to you. Oh, there was also Britney’s comeback song, “Gimme More” (which kind of flopped, by the way).
All this and an understatedly magnificent inclusion like “Con Te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye)” by Paul Potts featuring Illumina (perhaps this was a major hit in the UK, where Potts is from). But either way, let’s face it, you either flat-out hated or unconsciously hummed Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls”.
What’s the problem with ‘Beautiful Hits’ then? Why the rating so low ah? Well, because there are no life-changing songs here lah! Okay, pop is just for fun, true, but in the 80s, pop was Madonna, and Madonna saved lives. So apart from Alicia Keys’ classy karaoke favourite “No One” or Kelly Clarkson’s relatively sophisticated “Never Again” (and maybe Daughtry’s “Over You”), what is there worth shouting about?
“Hips Don’t Lie”? “Jenny”? They are catchy but catchy gets old fast and just don’t cut it in the long run. And that’s probably why we need compilations like this one. So besides being a little tacky and a little too 90s for many of our liking, it’s just an adroit compiling of the stickiest radio hits of the past two years. Kind of another way of saying, this is so 2007.
 
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