By Raymond Simon
This one is for the ladies, especially those between, say, 16 and 24-years-old, preferably on vacation at the beach and possibly with just enough of a buzz to enable them to fall for the come-ons of a clever seducer passing himself off as a sensitive guy.
What this EP offers is five variations on a kind of funk lite. On "Forget You," Clarkson is the rueful Don Juan, dumped by the woman he can't forget but trying hard to forget his heartache through plenty of casual sex. "I lay down last night with a girl that I knew that I could never love. / It's a mistake that I made to forget you," he sings in a breathy voice.
That very same breathy voice returns on the next track, "Long Since," but this time the singer is the confident stud secure that he has nothing to fear from his woman's conquests: "You wanna tell him that you wish that he was me. / You're not alone but you might as well be." Now that's confidence!
Rating: Semi-obnoxious
