Frank Kogan

The Missy remix is pretty horrible, unfortunately. It sounds like two different songs at once, trying to be dark (neither of which are bad approaches; they just don't work in this case). It sounds as if Missy and Ashlee weren't in the room together - which happens on all sorts of recordings, of course, but they're note supposed to sound that way.

"I Am Me" is definitely Ashlee's most Courtney song, and is my favorite on the album. But the most interesting is one that doesn't always work, "Burning Up," a dub song - dance and dub really are not Shanks' forte - but the melody isn't reggaeish, it's this flitty descending thing that reminds me of "Habanera" from Carmen, and then there's the break which manages to be genuinely sexy (I love "La La," but it's more about sex than actually sexy) while being a hilarious send-up of that kind of a husky sex track.