After the great successes at the beginning of the nineties, Melissa Etheridge's career has entered increasingly calm waters. After the therapeutic album Skin (2001), about a broken relationship, she recovered, fell in love again and recorded the album Lucky. The title leaves nothing to be guessed, it is a light and positive album with songs that tell about the joys of a new love. The despair that
… characterizes her most famous songs (Like The Way I Do, Bring Me Some Water) seems to have disappeared forever, but Melissa is still easy to digest now that she is happy. The first single Breathe, for example, composed by Ryan Jordan of the Greenwheel group, but apparently made for Melissa. Or the beautiful Mercy, where she still proves to be one of the best rock singers. It's a pity that she doesn't even take some musical side-paths every now and then, because this rock solid rock sound is now very predictable. (MS)more
