We're defying gravity, somewhere in the galaxy [new Vanessa Hudgens]

Vanessa Hudgens is a Nice Girl type so she's not going to get all sassy and slutty like Danity Kane, but on three of the songs on Identified she multi-tracks her voice into harmonic blobs like the Danitys', and the results are beautiful. Search for "Identified," also "First Bad Habit" and "Amazed"; in addition there's some of the retro-show-biz blues that everyone's doing and that she has to work too hard at to get fun out of, but she does get there. More immediately fun is club track "Hook It Up," where she goes through the motions of being tuff and electro. "Party On The Moon," a song about partying on the moon, is surpassed in outer-spaciness by a synthy bonus number called "Set It Off," about a guy who triggers her alarm circuits and she encourages him to continue. Second half of the album is duller than the first, Vanessa never achieves persona or character, but there's a good amount of good sound.