Canadian singer and jazz pianist Diana Krall has traded her girl-next-door image for a racy black corset on the cover of her latest CD Glad Rag Doll.
Fans of the singer might be appalled by this latest body of work which seems to promise vintage moments of jazz where ragtime and cheeky lyrics lived and instead serves up a drunken-sounding Diana; definitely not one of her shining moments.
With 13 tracks in all, the CD opens with “We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye”, an acoustic-laden swing style single. A raunchy guitar stays with Diana’s grit vocals on the bold and brash “There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth The Salt of My Tears.”
On “You Know – I Know Evrything’s Made for Love” Diana’s takes on a disappointing sluggish tone trapped in a ragtime beat, you would think she was just in from a bar and had too much to drink. Even worst on the title track “Glad Rag Doll” which follows, you would hear a lazy track that can ultimately put you to sleep.
Elsewhere on the CD you would find “Let It Rain”, a track that can easily crossover because of its melodic component and there is the ballad called “Here Lies Love.”
Thank heavens for “Just Like a Butterfly That’s Caught in the Rain,” the discs saving grace; and that’s by a long shot.
If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it, goes the old adage! Diana Krall would have done well to make a mental note of that.
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