Here’s hoping they meet Sufjan Stevens at prayer meeting. Not that they’re in need of the secondary kind themselves-they’re lucky if “maybe I gave in more than I should” (for “popularity”) recalls anything heavier than a copped feel. One exception, if I’m not mistaken-and I may be, Christian code is a motherfucker-is “5 Minutes of Fame,” apparently a message song for the “secondary virginity” movement. These three Christian sisters from Illinois specialize in arena-emo love songs to that perfect Guy, who unlike so many guys forgives them when they fail Him. Rufus Wainwright doesn’t really believe “Love’s the answer like I said before/It’s the one thing needed maybe now even more,” Elvis Costello maintains a suspicious distance from “Who Are These People?” before belting it with equally suspicious enthusiasm, and both outsing-by a lot-John Pagano (?), Josie James (?), and Donna Taylor (?), who in turn outsing-by a whole lot-chief vocalist Bacharach. Then there are the weak yet obtrusive beats hired out to such humanitarians as Kon Artis and Dr. Chris Botti provides a few high points on trumpet-that’s right, Chris Botti, high points, canceled out and then some by the anonymous saxophone soloist, who sounds to my unschooled ears like a moonlighting Kenny G. For in truth, it is difficult to imagine circumstances under which the pop paragon’s latest instrumental divertissements would signify. When I ask myself which of the many horrible things about this adoringly promoted “political” record is the very worst, I’m tempted to go for broke and say the arrangements.
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