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Daniel Powter - Under The Radar
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After "Bad Day", a Coke ad theme tune that became the most-played song on British radio of the last five years, it would be easy to dismiss Daniel Powter as just another package dropped off the major label production line. His scrubbed-clean, "X Factor" audition-ready songs are a throwback to a time where careers began with marketing departments, focus groups and brand synergies; superficially, his records sound like the last, dying gasp of a once-dominant but now terminally imploding entertainment empire. And first impressions of this second major label album support such suspicions. The 37-year-old Canadian has opted to work with Linda Perry, the queen of the power ballad, a writer/producer not exactly synonymous with nuanced understatement. You can almost hear the old-school label mindset clicking into gear: for all its accessibility, Powter remains, despite considerable gifts (and almost 500,000 album sales), a one-hit wonder - so bring in Perry! She'll turn his self-titled 2005 album's latent Beatlesisms into chart-conquering lighters-aloft anthems, and boost those piano singalongs into pieces of teary chest-beating worthy of Elton or Westlife....full text |
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Daniel Powter returns with a pretty aptly titled album - Under the Radar, the follow-up to his 2005 self-titled effort. You will remember him most (or only) for the monstrously successful hit single "Bad Day." No longer content to be pegged as a one-hit wonder, Powter has actively tried to outdo himself and come into his own. Under the Radar is the creative result. Together with producer Linda Perry (known for her work with Pink, Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys), they have managed to add an unexpected depth of emotion and sensuality to Powter's music. The album opens promisingly with "Best of Me," a simple and wonderfully sweet ballad. Soft and sincere, it showcases Powter's trademark falsetto to good effect. The tempo and instrumental emphasis (from piano to guitar) shifts to a mildly rockish mode with "Not Coming Back." Going back to what he does best, Powter croons beautifully to "Whole World Around," a sentimental number that will surely become a love confessional for quite a few of you out there....full text |
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| The story of Daniel Powter that we have come to know about in 2005 with the release of his eponymous debut album pleasantly surprised many of us but his music has obviously made a much stronger impression. A splendid single Bad Day still sounds on radio airs around the globe and is taken as a hit that has already become classic. Amazingly this song has proved so bright and memorable that the rest of the singles from Powter's first album never made it to reach the same heights and the artist's name is so far associated with Bad Day with most of people. For this very reason three years later Daniel has finally decided to change the situation recording some new material. An important function is laid upon his sophomore effort called Under The Radar to attract the audience's attention to the new creations of a talented author that is Daniel Powter and probably present the world with some new hits among which we are sure to find no less effective than the one that brought the world fame to the singer....full text |
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