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Lindsay Lohan played a rock & roller in the 2003 remake of the classic Disney identity-change flick Freaky Friday, so perhaps it wasn't a huge stretch for her to leap from acting to singing for the teen idol, yet her 2004 debut, Speak, still feels more like a byproduct of an overdriven, overamplified celebrity culture than an actual album. After all, with just two hit films under her belt, Lindsay wasn't exactly a huge star -- particularly one with a proven track record, one who could regularly open movies or had a fan base ready to follow her to pop music. Nevertheless, it was impossible to read gossip columns, entertainment press, and blogs without reading about Ms. Lohan, whether it was details of her feud with Hilary Duff, debates over the authenticity of her breasts, praise for her role in Tina Fey's Mean Girls, reports of her breakup from That 70s Show actor Wilmer Valderrama, and tales of her partying. This relentless flow of stories made Lindsay Lohan a star even to people who never saw her films, the way that the constant coverage of Paris Hilton turned the heiress into a star. And like that creation of celeb culture, Lohan decided it was time to turn herself into a multimedia, cross-platform star, instead of simply an actress, and so Speak was recorded quickly and rushed into the stores at the end of the year. It should come as no surprise that the record sounds like a record that was created in the moment and for the moment, to be the soundtrack to Lohan's wild year. So, there are songs that allude to her partying ways -- most explicitly on the lead single "Rumors," where Lindsay bats her eyes for the camera as she pleads to be left alone (it's inexplicably called a bonus track here, btw) -- and the music is a blend of old-fashioned, Britney-styled dance-pop and the anthemic, arena rock sound pioneered by fellow tween stars Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. Lohan may be a better singer than Britney -- she's mannered, but her voice is fuller than Mrs. Federline's razor-thin squeak -- but her record feels a lot more cynical than the equally calculated and polished efforts by Hilary and Ashlee, and it all boils down to this: Lindsay Lohan comes across as ridiculously oversexed and crass. On the cover, the starlet -- who officially turned 18 in July of 2004 -- looks like a thirtysomething porn star, and she has the heavy-breathing voice and double entendres to match ("I wanna come first" on "First," the lead song, or "I'm not above being under" on "Disconnected"); add to that, she's posed in nothing more than an unbuttoned dress shirt in the liner notes, while there's another picture of her with the word "sex" scrawled over it, twice. When paired with the loud, relentlessly ProTooled dance-pop and hooky but unmelodic songs on Speak, the whole thing is a slick, ugly nadir of 2000s pop culture -- the kind of thing that makes Blue Staters think that, gee, maybe the Red Staters were right when they said the U.S. is going to hell. Thing of it is, Lohan could make a good record -- she doesn't have a bad voice and is forceful on record. Speak, however, is not a good record. It's more like an open diary documenting a particularly embarrassing teenager spinning out of control.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist - Jamie Muhoberac, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Dave Audé, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Lader, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Lars Fox, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Lader, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Savan Kotecha, ComposerLyricist - Lindsay Lohan, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Sommerdahl, Drums, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Drums, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Lars Fox, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andreas Carlsson, Producer, Guitar, Recording Engineer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Pablo Munguia, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anna Nordell, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Lisa Rachelle Greene, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mark Valentine, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Lars Fox, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Audé, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Lader, Programmer - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mark Valentine, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Dave Audé, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Shelly Peiken, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Suzie Katayama, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist - Armen Garabedian, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Corbett, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Kent, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Bisharat, Violin, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Valentine, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kara Dioguardi, Producer - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Vinnie Colaiuta, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Audé, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Programmer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mario De Leon, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Berj Garabedian, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Sarah Thornblade, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Grunfeld, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Roberto Cani, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Darrin McCann, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Denyse Buffern, Viola, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Dave Audé, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Lader, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kristian Lundin, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Savan Kotecha, ComposerLyricist - Carl Falk, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Didrik Thott, ComposerLyricist - Jake Schulze, ComposerLyricist - Sebastian Thott, ComposerLyricist - Carl Bjorsell, ComposerLyricist - Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Lars Fox, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Audé, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Kalle Engström, Producer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lindsay Lohan, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Eriksen, Producer, Drums, Keyboards, Recording Engineer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Tom Nichols, ComposerLyricist - Peter Wade Keusch, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Martin Sjolie, Producer, Assistant Producer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DAVE WAY, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Lior Goldenberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Avedon, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Borge Petersen Overleir, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Havan Le, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Troy Verges, ComposerLyricist - Hillary Lindsey, ComposerLyricist - Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist - Steve Robson, ComposerLyricist - Jamie Muhoberac, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Lars Fox, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Audé, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lindsay Lohan, MainArtist - Kara Dioguardi, Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Shanks, Producer, Mixer, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Lars Fox, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Audé, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Lader, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Rothschild, Mixer, Drums, Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - James Nosanow, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cory Rooney, Producer, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lindsay Lohan, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Peter Wade Keusch, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Chris Avedon, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tarryle Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Christopher J. Wormer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Electric Pete, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Lindsay Lohan played a rock & roller in the 2003 remake of the classic Disney identity-change flick Freaky Friday, so perhaps it wasn't a huge stretch for her to leap from acting to singing for the teen idol, yet her 2004 debut, Speak, still feels more like a byproduct of an overdriven, overamplified celebrity culture than an actual album. After all, with just two hit films under her belt, Lindsay wasn't exactly a huge star -- particularly one with a proven track record, one who could regularly open movies or had a fan base ready to follow her to pop music. Nevertheless, it was impossible to read gossip columns, entertainment press, and blogs without reading about Ms. Lohan, whether it was details of her feud with Hilary Duff, debates over the authenticity of her breasts, praise for her role in Tina Fey's Mean Girls, reports of her breakup from That 70s Show actor Wilmer Valderrama, and tales of her partying. This relentless flow of stories made Lindsay Lohan a star even to people who never saw her films, the way that the constant coverage of Paris Hilton turned the heiress into a star. And like that creation of celeb culture, Lohan decided it was time to turn herself into a multimedia, cross-platform star, instead of simply an actress, and so Speak was recorded quickly and rushed into the stores at the end of the year. It should come as no surprise that the record sounds like a record that was created in the moment and for the moment, to be the soundtrack to Lohan's wild year. So, there are songs that allude to her partying ways -- most explicitly on the lead single "Rumors," where Lindsay bats her eyes for the camera as she pleads to be left alone (it's inexplicably called a bonus track here, btw) -- and the music is a blend of old-fashioned, Britney-styled dance-pop and the anthemic, arena rock sound pioneered by fellow tween stars Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. Lohan may be a better singer than Britney -- she's mannered, but her voice is fuller than Mrs. Federline's razor-thin squeak -- but her record feels a lot more cynical than the equally calculated and polished efforts by Hilary and Ashlee, and it all boils down to this: Lindsay Lohan comes across as ridiculously oversexed and crass. On the cover, the starlet -- who officially turned 18 in July of 2004 -- looks like a thirtysomething porn star, and she has the heavy-breathing voice and double entendres to match ("I wanna come first" on "First," the lead song, or "I'm not above being under" on "Disconnected"); add to that, she's posed in nothing more than an unbuttoned dress shirt in the liner notes, while there's another picture of her with the word "sex" scrawled over it, twice. When paired with the loud, relentlessly ProTooled dance-pop and hooky but unmelodic songs on Speak, the whole thing is a slick, ugly nadir of 2000s pop culture -- the kind of thing that makes Blue Staters think that, gee, maybe the Red Staters were right when they said the U.S. is going to hell. Thing of it is, Lohan could make a good record -- she doesn't have a bad voice and is forceful on record. Speak, however, is not a good record. It's more like an open diary documenting a particularly embarrassing teenager spinning out of control.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:11
- Main artists: Lindsay Lohan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2004 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2004 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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