It is starting to seem that the American Meredith Brooks will no longer match the success of her first, and for the time being last hit, Bitch. Although she enlisted the help of rap star Queen Latifah for her cover of the old Melanie hit Lay Down, the song got stuck in the lowest regions of the charts in the first weeks. Brooks presents herself on her second CD as the slightly more streamlined-sounding
… sister of Sheryl Crow, while in her lyrics and way of singing she still resembles Jagged Little Pill's Alanis Morissette. Deconstruction is a nice, but due to the flat, mediocre compositions also a bit disappointing album. (WvdZ)more
