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Lindsay Lohan
Oct. 19th, 2011 02:05 pm[Wrote this for Left Hip a whole bunch of court appearances ago, but the mag had a change of format and couldn't run it.]
In Herbie: Fully Loaded Lindsay wavers between hesitancy and purpose as she plays a character who isn't sure she has a right to her own talent and destiny. So it's a shock after the end credits when the video to "First" rolls in and there she is being needy and demanding Lindsay Lohan. The song was written by others, and it too may be just an act, but it's the one I fall for and the one that defines her for me. She's got a thin singing voice but it doesn't feel thin, with her command and charisma always front and center.
For "Confessions Of A Broken Heart" she sent Kara DioGuardi emails about missing the attention of her absent dad, and she and Kara worked those emails into lyrics. On the alb, Lindsay wants us to want her, does so more convincingly than Cheap Trick ever did. She splashes around hilariously in "Who Loves You?" and she lives for the day when we'll be desperate and dying inside. She's got two masterpieces, "I Live For The Day" and "Nobody 'Til You," all centered on her vortex of need, the only girl in the room. But now she's caught in the criminal justice system, and once you're in you gotta do what the judges and POs say, gotta show up for court dates and classes, and you can't cut it close or function without a plan b, 'cause bad luck's not an excuse, and you gotta listen to them but they don't have to listen to you.
"Nobody 'Til You" written by John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi
In Herbie: Fully Loaded Lindsay wavers between hesitancy and purpose as she plays a character who isn't sure she has a right to her own talent and destiny. So it's a shock after the end credits when the video to "First" rolls in and there she is being needy and demanding Lindsay Lohan. The song was written by others, and it too may be just an act, but it's the one I fall for and the one that defines her for me. She's got a thin singing voice but it doesn't feel thin, with her command and charisma always front and center.
For "Confessions Of A Broken Heart" she sent Kara DioGuardi emails about missing the attention of her absent dad, and she and Kara worked those emails into lyrics. On the alb, Lindsay wants us to want her, does so more convincingly than Cheap Trick ever did. She splashes around hilariously in "Who Loves You?" and she lives for the day when we'll be desperate and dying inside. She's got two masterpieces, "I Live For The Day" and "Nobody 'Til You," all centered on her vortex of need, the only girl in the room. But now she's caught in the criminal justice system, and once you're in you gotta do what the judges and POs say, gotta show up for court dates and classes, and you can't cut it close or function without a plan b, 'cause bad luck's not an excuse, and you gotta listen to them but they don't have to listen to you.
"Nobody 'Til You" written by John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi
