I'm Diggin It

Alecia Elliott | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca Nashville
• ASIN: B00003TL2B
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,453 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Diggin' This CD!, January 29, 2000

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Teresa (Mission, Kansas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I'm Diggin It (Audio CD)

I just bought this CD yesterday and I cannot stop listening to it! It is by far one of the best I have EVER owned. Every song on this album is incredible! I had intended to just buy her single "I'm Diggin It," but decided to get the whole CD instead. I'm really glad I did. I would have missed many great other songs this artists so powerfully sings. I LOVE the title track of course. Some other favorites of mine are "I'm waiting for you," "Every heart," and "You wanna what?" and her version of "Some say I'm running." All in all, though, every song is definitely special and worth listening to over and over. I never have to skip tracks, which is really nice. This girl definitely has bright future ahead of her with such a powerful and soulful voice. I can really relate to these songs and she sings them with such conviction for someone so young! Great job, Alecia! You rock!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm definitely diggin' it....., June 20, 2000

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Andrew LeRoy - See all my reviews

This review is from: I'm Diggin It (Audio CD)

I bought Alecia Elliot's CD on impulse about a week ago, but for once did not regret my impulse buy. The day after I bought it I met her at a signing at Best Buy. She was very sweet, and shy, a definite change from Britney Spears' vixen image. The other night my friend was over, and we were listening to the CD, and we both were talking about how great it was that finally some teenage girl wasn't flaunting herself, but writing real lyrics that we could relate to. Sure, some people might think she's a Britney Spears wanna be, but unlike Britney, Alecia sings songs that actually apply to girls of today. She also encourages girls not to succumb to sexual pressure in her song "You Wanna What?", which she co-wrote with some other writers. Her song "I'm Waiting For You" talks about keeping herself for the one she knows she will be with forever. Alecia is definitely a positive influence, and it's great to listen to someone who isn't afraid to be good. I look forward to her next album.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Talented young singer trapped in pedestrian productions, February 1, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Diggin It (Audio CD)

Given that this is marketed by MCA's Nashville division, one might assume that this was a country music CD. But even by today's loose radio standard of "country," there's little country music or spirit to be found here. For the most part this is slick, middle-of-the-road pop.

Elliott is quite a talent, with a surprisingly mature voice, but the material she's chosen to sing is either beyond her years (e.g., Matraca Berg's "Some People Fall, Some People Fly") or the sort of highly-charged teen anthems (e.g., "I'm Waiting For You") that can be found up and down the dial.

Unlike earlier teen queens, Elliott's great talent has not yet found a sympathetic, innovative home. The production and playing are the sort of mechanial reproductions that are now endemic to Nashville "product." And though her voice is able to play along nicely, the end result isn't particularly memorable.

Here's hoping her debut is successful enough to give her a second shot, and that she makes more of that opportunity than she's (presumably) been allowed to the first time out.