Headstrong

能演、能写、能唱、能跳的全方位天后接班人首张个人专辑 90年代偶像创作歌手Tommy Page力捧监制、当代流行音乐最强阵容齐力打造 获选TeenPeople杂志 25岁以下25大人气明星之一 "感谢你们给予的支持和爱护！如果没有你们，这一切就都不可能发生。发自我最诚挚的心，这张专辑是献给你们的！谢谢你们！我爱你们！"Ashley Tisdale 透过演出迪士尼频道「歌舞青春」以及「小查与寇弟的顶级生活」，小艾(艾希莉)成为全球数百万年轻新世代影歌迷迎接的青春偶像。2007年初，超人气甜心小艾以首张专辑「勇往直前」照亮流行音乐界，散播年轻世代的欢乐因子。 在纽泽西长大的小艾8岁就对表演着迷，当时她在百老汇音乐剧「悲惨世界」全美巡回演中担纲主角，随後又加入音乐剧「安妮」的国际巡演，早期在舞台上的演唱历练让她对音乐产生热情，随後获得「歌舞青春」的演出机会，在片中展现了歌唱、舞蹈与戏剧演出的才华，她的唱作风采也为其歌唱梦想跨出漂亮的第一步，在这张勇夺排行冠军的电视电影原声带中展现亮眼的歌唱能量，成为少数同时以出道的首两支单曲攻占全美热门单曲榜的女歌手。 除了「歌舞青春」的热力效应外，她还在2006年中精彩诠释了迪士尼动画片「仙履奇缘」、「白雪公主」以及「小美人鱼」的经典主题曲。 继布兰妮和克莉丝汀之後，同样是掘起於迪士尼的小艾被视为新一代的全方位天后接班人，其首张专辑「勇往直前」集聚多位当代炙手可热的流行金曲创作阵容，联手打造一个轻快、奔放、活泼、动人的流行音乐国度。专辑里有亮丽劲歌、融合流行与嘻哈的时尚旋律、抒发青春爱恋感触的动人情歌，还有她自己形容为发表「独立宣言」的标题曲"Headstrong"。此外，小艾也在专辑中小试身手，合写了3首歌曲。 成就的光采持续不断地照耀在小艾身上，让人很容易就看出她的真正自我可能已经被她在电视上所扮演的角色给掩盖了，不过，这一切将会随着「勇往直前」专辑的发行而改观，小艾的粉丝可以从这张专辑里分享她的成长心情，从歌曲中更加了解耀眼青春光芒下最真实的她 - 努力实现梦想的决心和努力。 by Heather Phares The High School Musical soundtrack was so popular that it was inevitable that all of the stars of the Disney Channel phenomenon would release albums of their own. Ashlely Tisdale, who played Sharpay Evans, the queen of her high school's theater department, became the first female artist to debut with two singles on Billboard's Hot 100 at the same time, so expectations were high for Headstrong, her first post-High School Musical work. Unfortunately, Tisdale had more character singing in character as Sharpay: her voice is pleasant enough, but it's not especially distinctive, and she's not helped by a batch of songs that aren't nearly as charming as High School Musical's tunes. Attempting to give Tisdale an identity outside of High School Musical, Headstrong's sound is much more mature than the soundtrack's teen pop-meets-musicals vibe, incorporating heavy hip-hop beats, dancehall's call-and-response, Middle Eastern elements, and other mid-2000s pop music trends into the Disney pop sound. "Positivity"'s syncopated beats and old-school synths make it one of the best examples of this approach, and one of the best songs on the album. Gwen Stefani's hip-pop is another major influence, especially on "Headstrong" itself, which mixes and matches slinky verses with cheerleadery, "Hollaback Girl" choruses. At times, Headstrong's songs reflect that Tisdale is a little older than some of her Radio Disney peers, but at other times that fact is ignored: "He Said She Said" features a hard-hitting beat and backing vocals that sound like Kidz Bop; "Not Like That" has Tisdale singing, "I'm the kind of chick that hits spots/In my flip-flops/Listenin' to hip-hop." A few straightforwardly catchy tracks make up for missteps like the mopey ballad "Unlove You" and "Suddenly," which seems to be about Tisdale discovering her own stardom. "Goin' Crazy" sounds a lot like Britney Spears' "Drive Me Crazy," and "Over It" is a pretty typical angry breakup song, but they both deliver some much-needed hooks. Headstrong isn't as winning as either High School Musical or Hannah Montana, which is a little surprising considering the high-profile songwriters and producers involved (Diane Warren, Lauren Christy, Scott Spock, Nicolas Molinder, Joacim Persson, and Guy Roche, to name a few). However, it's fine for anyone who just wants to hear more of Ashley Tisdale's -- and not Sharpay Evans' -- singing.