Customer Reviews

American Mall

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Unlike "High School Musical" where the music's purpose provide background for choreography, "The American Mall" soundtrack is about the music itself and its support of the story. As such, the TAM soundtrack is stronger top-to-bottom, and is much easier to take over repeated listenings. It has a more natural sound thanks to some very welcome restraint on the use of pitch correction and synthesized harmonies. Moreover, better songs, better vocal performances, and a slew of up-tempo numbers make this a disc you'll want to play loud and often.

Basically summerise in the title. A nice soundtrack with several good songs, but essentially another clone of High School Musical. Some of the songs are quite catchy, or just plain nice to listen to, but mostly don't stand out from the crowd.

So much better than High School Musical! Its true. Go bye little peppy disney musicals MTV can kick out better musicals! Every song is amazing!

1. Every 10 Seconds: Good opening number to open with
2. At The Mall: Very High School Musical, Lunch Room Song
3. Dreaming Wide Awake: This Love song Sticks out the most in the movie
4. Get your Rock On: The Balled of the movie and really stands out too
5. The New You: The bad girl song sounds Great!
6. A Little bit of Heart Somewhere: Amazing Song to play over and over
7. Surviver: The Strong Girl number of the movie. Very well done
8. Sorry's Not Enough: This is another song that really stands out!
9. Clear: Makes you think how could a song be better then Dreaming wide Awake
10. Don't Hold Back: a great last number leaves you singing after the moive is over. closes the movie on a good note and wanting more!

If one liked the movie "American Mall" then they will surely like the soundtrack. The soundtrack is in my car and it is all I listen to anymore. The songs are awesome and every time I listen to the soundtrack, I am able to picture the movie taking place.

*Note: This was originally written as a review on iTunes, where the overwhelmingly large number of 5-star reviews were just too much to sit idly by.*

Yes, I am 21, but High School Musical (and especially it's successor) was a movie with a lot of heart, with a soundtrack full of catchy replayable tunes. They say this is for the "older" crowed, that HSM is too "tween" and that TAM is edgier and more mature - well that ain't true. Unlike High School Musical's, these songs are empty and hollow, the most generic music I've heard in a very long while. I didn't think vocals could get worse than Hudgens' (who actually improved on the second soundtrack) but Nina Dobrev's - and the rest of the cast for that matter - is nothing but horrid, synthesized drivel. And there's no one with anywhere close to the vocal prowess of Lucas Grabeel on this album anywhere. It's a shame the only one with apparent true vocal talent, Neil Haskell, only got 3 stanzas of solo music in the entire score.

Comparing "Work It Out" to "At The Mall" (whose lyrics go something like "at the mall, ooooh at the mall") or "Gotta Go My Own Way" to "A Little Bit of Heart Somewhere" (hey sugar hey sugar hey, don't care what you say...") seems like no contest. Yet there's hundreds of people who attest that this is better than High School Musical. Everyone has their own opinions and prefrences, but when something so blatantly bland and horrible is said to be better than something with a lot of heart, I get pretty darn confused. Are we reviewing the same thing here?