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Staring down her 17th birthday, Miranda Cosgrove faces the rite of passage that every Disney idol must pass: releasing her debut album. As the star of the super-millennial iCarly, perhaps it shouldn’t be a complete surprise that Sparks Fly is bedecked in modern electronic rhythms and icy hooks, yet the glassy surface sheen flies in the face of the natural charm Cosgrove displays on iCarly and its accompanying soundtrack. Miranda winds up buried underneath the weight of production on Sparks Fly -- it often comes across like a cross of Miley Cyrus and Kesha’s full-frontal assault (she is responsible for the album’s nadir, “Disgusting”) -- nor is she helped much by the series of belabored melodies that push her into vocal gymnastics that tax her range. Trace elements of her charm remain -- when the synths and brickwalled guitars are stripped back she retains a sweet girlish appeal -- but Sparks Fly is a cold, calculating product, right down to how the standard length is an EP-length eight songs so the four extra cuts on the “Deluxe Edition” seem like a gift. Miranda deserves better than this.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Claude Kelly, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - Miranda Cosgrove, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - John Hanes, Mixing Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Mixing Engineer - Tim Roberts, Assistant Engineer - Emily Wright, Engineer, AdditionalStudioProducer - Ammo, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Kool Kojak, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Vezna Gottwald, Assistant Engineer - Armen Pakhchian, Assistant Engineer - Łukasz Gottwald, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Rodney Jerkins, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Antonina Armato, Composer, Lyricist - Tim James, Composer, Lyricist - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Devrim Karaoglu, Programmer - John Hanes, Mixing Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Mixing Engineer - Tim Roberts, Assistant Engineer - Nigel Lundemo, Engineer - Steve Hammons, Engineer - Adam Comstock, Engineer - Rock Mafia, Producer - Brooke Adams, Background Vocal - Miek "Handz" Donaldson, Recording Engineer
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Pebe Sebert, Composer, Lyricist - Kesha Sebert, Composer, Lyricist - Sheppard Solomon, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - John Hanes, Mixing Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Mixing Engineer - Tim Roberts, Assistant Engineer - Jennifer Karr, Background Vocal - Tom Meredith, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Lucy Woodward, Background Vocal - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - John Shanks, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass - Lars Fox, Editor - Shari Sutcliffe, Coordinator - Jeff Rothschild, Drums, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Jason Brett Levine, Composer, Lyricist - Susan Florea Cagle, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Greg Wells, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Piano, Mixing Engineer, Bass - David Campbell, Performance Arranger - Suzie Katayama, Contractor - Rob Wells, Programmer - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Lars Fox, Editor - STEVE Churchyard, Engineer - Ian MacGregor, Recording Engineer - Paula Winger, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - C. F. Kip Winger, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Allan Grigg, Composer, Lyricist - Joshua Coleman, Composer, Lyricist - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - John Hanes, Mixing Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Mixing Engineer - Tim Roberts, Assistant Engineer - Emily Wright, Engineer, AdditionalStudioProducer - Bonnie McKee, Composer, Lyricist, Background Vocal - Ammo, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Kool Kojak, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Vezna Gottwald, Assistant Engineer - Armen Pakhchian, Assistant Engineer
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Max Martin, Composer, Lyricist - Savan Kotecha, Composer, Lyricist - Peer Astrom, Composer, Lyricist - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Hanes, Mixing Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Mixing Engineer - Tim Roberts, Assistant Engineer - Tom Meredith, Producer, Engineer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Sidh Solanki, Producer
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Chantal Kreviazuk, Composer, Lyricist, Synthesizer - Raine Maida, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Programmer, Bass - Miranda Cosgrove, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Brian Garcia, Engineer - TOM LORD-ALGE, Mixing Engineer - Avril Lavigne, Composer, Lyricist - Bill Lefler, Drums
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Staring down her 17th birthday, Miranda Cosgrove faces the rite of passage that every Disney idol must pass: releasing her debut album. As the star of the super-millennial iCarly, perhaps it shouldn’t be a complete surprise that Sparks Fly is bedecked in modern electronic rhythms and icy hooks, yet the glassy surface sheen flies in the face of the natural charm Cosgrove displays on iCarly and its accompanying soundtrack. Miranda winds up buried underneath the weight of production on Sparks Fly -- it often comes across like a cross of Miley Cyrus and Kesha’s full-frontal assault (she is responsible for the album’s nadir, “Disgusting”) -- nor is she helped much by the series of belabored melodies that push her into vocal gymnastics that tax her range. Trace elements of her charm remain -- when the synths and brickwalled guitars are stripped back she retains a sweet girlish appeal -- but Sparks Fly is a cold, calculating product, right down to how the standard length is an EP-length eight songs so the four extra cuts on the “Deluxe Edition” seem like a gift. Miranda deserves better than this.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:26:39
- Main artists: Miranda Cosgrove
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
(P) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
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