Paris

Paris Hilton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000GDI3SW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (312 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,387 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Reality show star, amateur porn hobbyist and regular party fixture; hotel heiress Paris Hilton has decided she would also like to try her hand at being a pop singer. Just because you suspect she hasn't had any formal musical training, never paid dues by belting her heart out with the Mickey Mouse Club, or that she quite possibly bought her way into this whole racket on an expensive whim shouldn't stop you from spending a few frothy minutes with her opening shot, Paris. The single "Stars Are Blind" has a nice breezy faux-reggae vibe, producer Scott Storch sprinkles several tracks with his billion-dollar beats and there's even a tuneless version of "Do Ya Think of Sexy" that actually makes the original sound good. Pulling that off takes some talent, right? – Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

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410 of 507 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a perfect representation of the current state of music, August 24, 2006

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G. L Matlock "professional classical musician" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paris (Audio CD)

Something interesting I've been noticing is that many people (some of my friends included) are saying that they are surprised by how much they like Paris Hilton's new single. You shouldn't be. Someone with her infinite wealth can easily afford to hire the right team to make her album as addictive as possible. This is the same tactic that allowed Britney Spears to achieve huge success so quickly. She had powerhouse producers behind her to make her music extremely infectious, causing just about anybody who didn't know any better to think to themself, "Wow! This girl's a great artist!" No. There's a difference between being a great artist and someone with the right team of producers working on their side.

This music is addictive because of its simplicity. Simple tunes are easier to hum/sing/remember, which is very appealing to some people. They contain "safe" harmonic and melodic structures where scale degrees and chords proceed to predictable locations, which are very immediately pleasing to the ear, yet not very rewarding (especially in the long-run). Paris' music is just that: predictable melodic/hamonic structure, geared toward making people think that she is actually a surprisingly valid artist, when she's actually deceiving them so that she can gain even more fame and fortune. How predictable...like her music.

On top of it all, there's a magical device that the music industry has tried to keep hush-hush over the years, but is now becoming common knowledge to the public. Referred to by producing veteran, DJ Premiere, in the video that accomopanies Christina Aguilera's new Back to Basics album as "auto-tune", this aweful technology allows producers to adjust the pitch of someone's voice after it's been recorded. Wonderful. At least before, people with minimal talent had to re-record over and over until they got it right, hopefully learning a little bit about relative pitch in the process and forcing them to slowly learn how to sing in the process. Obviously, Paris has used this. Her "interpretation" of the melody in this song is so terrible that she obviously has had little or no vocal training, and thus, has no more of a concept of relative pitch than anybody else in the country.

Paris said in an on-set interview for her video that she does not want people to think that she is just making an album just to do it, but that she has dreamed of making one since she was very young. Well guess what, Paris? Just because you want to make an album doesn't mean you should. Leave that to the dedicated, intelligent musicians of substance like Sheryl Crow, U2, Alicia Keys, and OutKast. Go take some music theory courses and intensive voice lessons and study some of the music that came out before you were born. Read some good literature. Exercise your mind. Then maybe, even you can release a respectable album.

33 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THE PERFECT LAXATIVE!, September 1, 2006

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C. Martinez (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paris (Audio CD)

Ladies and Gents, if you're suffering from horrendous constipation, this trashy CD is the perfect remedy for your monstrous cramps! Just one listen, and you'll be bursting thru that bathroom door like there will be no tomorrow! Better than Ex-Lax! Highly recommended for senior citizens.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars teen pop gone awry - poor singing & production, August 31, 2006

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gavin.s "gav6791" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paris (Audio CD)

Having heard the whole album it's clear - this girl does not yet know how to sing - if that's your idea of unpretentious so be it. Were it up to me I would take "Stars are Blind" (which IS catchy, has an lazy, "island" feel which works well with her soft tease of a voice), "Screwed", and "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" and scrap the rest of this album. The latter cover of Rod Stewart needs to be redone, sounds too much like the original, please use a little imagination. Bottom line: except for "Stars are Blind" this is a forgettable album no matter what your tastes are.
PS - if you think payola is dead in the music industry just try to fathom Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review for All Music Guide. That's an embaressment.