My sources tell me that Cheyenne was the winner of some "America's Most Talented Kid" competition back in 2002 by singing a self-penned song and recently had her own reality show on MTV. So, as you would expect, Cheyenne gets co-writing tracks on the majority of this album and, apparently, plays guitar on most of the tracks as well.
So far, so "pop idol". And as you might expect at times this album does have that "throw everything at it" style that is so evident in pop music these days. We'll have a healthy dose of Avril, throw in some Sheryl and toss is a smidgen of Jewel whilst we're here.
Yet there's something else going on here. She's worked with Blind Melon's Brad Smith and Christopher Thorn and has co-writers of the prestige of Chantal Kreviazuk (responsible for most of what was good on Avril Lavigne's last album). So whilst the MTV ready package is firmly in place, there seems as if there could be more to Cheyenne than you might first expect.
She certainly seems to know what she's doing. Lead single Hanging On is a catchy indie-pop song which is as good as anything Lindsay Lohan has ever been given to sing whilst Hello Goodbye is probably the kind of song that Avril Lavigne would kill for as her comeback single. The standout for me would be One Original Thing, which brings to mind Green Day's more poppier moments and is the sort of thing that could quite easily be a huge hit.
Of course the album is not without its problems. We must remember Cheyenne is still in her teens and so is not quite the polished article just yet. Still viewed as such, that is the first drawing of the sword of a promising artist, this is a good, and occasionally great, slice of pop which not only shows hints of promise but delivers a couple of tracks that will fit in nicely in the inevitable Greatest Hits collection in years to come.
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