Debbie Gibson

Think With Your Heart

Why this album bombed is a mystery to me.

Review Score:

(8/10)
Come on people! If you are still pigeon-holing Gibson into the "teen-bop" (I HATE THAT TERM!), adolescent singer, you need to do as Debbie did: GROW UP. You need to listen to this with an open mind and not be so ready to just say it's just bubble-gum. Justin Timberlake got rave reviews as a solo nevermind his "Boyband" (I HATE THAT TERM TOO!!), young artist pop band roots in the mega successful Nsync. I don't see people blowing him off like they do with Debbie and she can whip the tar out of Justin.
Songs like the title track and Lets Run Away show us that yes even Debbie Gibson (now Deborah) has grown up and should be taken more seriously and that her music deserves a better chance. Debbie has always been known to write her own material, the hallmark of an artist over just a performer. The throw back to her earlier days; Don't You Want Me Now still has a more mature feel, even going into some risque and controversial area with the lyric "but I'm loving her just the same", spicing things up a bit, like Janet Jackson did by singing the Rod Stewart song Tonights The Night to another woman.
No, this is not adolescent pop - which by the way we ate up like chocolate - so let's not penalize her without charging us as guilty for liking it. Just as our musical taste matured, so has hers.

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