Barbie Hit Mix

Barbie

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 2004)
• Original Release Date: April 6, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0001M3QYE
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #193,024 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hey Ya (* Made popular by OutKast)

2. Come Clean (* Made popular by Hilary Duff)

3. One Step Closer (* Made popular by American Juniors)

4. With You (* Made popular by Jessica Simpson)

5. Up! (* Made popular by Shania Twain)

6. Ultimate (* Made popular by Lindsay Lohan from Freaky Friday)

7. What I Like About You (*Made popular by Lillix)

8. The Voice Within (* Made popular by Christina Aguilera)

9. (There's Gotta Be) More To Life (* Made popular by Stacie Orricco)

10. This One's For The Girls (* Made popular by Martina McBride)

11. So Yesterday (* Made popular by Hilary Duff)

12. Breathe (*Made popular by Michelle Branch)

13. Fallen (* Made popular by Mya)

14. Stuck (* Made popular by Stacie Orricco)

15. Tomorrow (* Made popular by Lillix)

16. ...Baby One More Time(* Made popular by Britney Spears)

17. …Baby One More Time (* Britney Spears)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Strip away the photo of Barbie as Britney wannabe on the cover and extend the track list with a few hard-rocking, boy-skewed songs, and what you're left with here is yet another installment of the irritating but phenomenally popular Kidz Bop series. Harshly put, Hit Mix is a knockoff. On it you will find an identical-sounding chorus of kids crooning slowed-down versions of top-10ers, the main difference being that the Rhino/Mattel offering is more amenable to listeners whose main objective is finding music they can march their dolls along to in mock fashion shows (or hold make-believe Ken, Barbie, and Midge concerts to, or stage all night boogie-fests for their anatomically incorrect heroes to). Bottom line: If your 4- to 8-year-old gets as much of a rise out of Jessica Simpson as she does her Barbie Townhouse, or if she's a kid who "bopz" shamelessly, her hopes, but probably not yours, have been answered with Hit Mix. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For what it is, it's not bad, March 1, 2005

By	Barbara J. Riley (Osceola, IN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Like one other reviewer, I'm not sure what you guys were expecting. If you were expecting excellence, if you were expecting a CD that would be a favorite of yours, then that's your fault, not the CD producers' fault. This is a Barbie-themed item, so adults are obviously not the target market. Young girls are the audience for this CD. If you are not one of them, then you really don't have the right to speak on this. (And by the way, learn to spell, people. I can't possibly take you seriously when you use all lower-case and a gazillion exclamation points. If you want to spout venom, go do it on your chat boards somewhere else. We're looking for useful reviews here.)

There. Now, on to the review. My daughter is 4 and is already all-girl. She digs the "diva" stuff, everything that glitters, furry telephones and all that jazz. I encourage her to branch out to other things, like sports and science, but this is how she is; this is her "groove." So I acquiesce at times, like the day I bought this CD for her. Know what? She loves it.

Not to say that I am nuts about it, because I prefer Harry Connick Jr. and Sting and classic rock, and the local pop radio station is absolutely not on my car pre-sets. But I have heard so much worse. It's lots better than the Kidz Bop CD I bought a long time ago (and conveniently "lost" almost immediately afterward.) But again, I am not the target audience here; my daughter is.

This is a CD that, while it's not exactly my taste, I can bear playing for her enjoyment now and then without wanting to run myself through with the nearest sharp object. At times the back-up little-girl singers are off-key, and there are a couple songs I always fast-forward through, but for what it is, it's really not bad. If your daughter likes this kind of thing, she'll like this CD, and it's easier for adults to bear than the Kidz Bop tracks that I've heard.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars pleasant mix of pop, July 16, 2004

By	Opus (Antartica) - See all my reviews

Reading the reviews submitted so far, I can only guess at what others might have expected from a CD with Barbie on the front cover. I listened to the CD on-line, which isn't the best quality, and I was impressed. It's pretty clear what the producers were aiming to create: a fun, somewhat ecletic collection of songs by female singers. A pre-teen version of the "Women of Song" collection.

This CD is very easy to listen to, and while few of the songs will ever become "golden oldies", they are all well produced. As for the lyrics: yes, there are a few more gritty passages, mostly in the "teen angst" songs. Compared to many of the lyrics sung even on public radio, the songs on this album are mild.

I'd recommend purchasing this CD, with the caveat that many people have hightly negative reactions to artists like Britteney and Christine.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Daughter Loves This, May 2, 2004

By A Customer

Picked this up for my little girl for Easter. She & I love to sing along & dance to our favorite songs (including the Hilary Duff songs). These current hits sound pretty close to the originals and are certainly more fun than listening to the other kids CDs out there which sound cheesy. I don't like to purchase the original artists full CDs because I never feel safe about all the song lyrics on a CD...so I like having a safe kids sing-along version to listen to. This CD is worth buying...I certainly don't mind playing it over and over to listen to with my little girl.