Brooke Allison (album) explained
| Brooke Allison |
| Type: | studio |
| Cover: | BA Debut.jpg |
| Alt: | A blonde woman in a black shirt standing in a tunnel. The text "Brooke Allison" stands to her right. |
| Artist: | Brooke Allison |
| Released: | June 19, 2001 |
| Genre: | Teen pop |
| Length: | 42:02 |
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Brooke Allison is the debut studio album by American singer Brooke Allison. Virgin Records released the album on June 19, 2001. Allison worked with producers including Michael Blakey, Robert Palmer, Elton Ahi, Peter Rafelson, Jeff Vincent, Damon Elliott, and Mark Portmann. It is a teen pop album, which was conceived after Allison's songs were discovered by a recording executive online. Brooke Allisons lyrical themes revolve around love and relationships.
Brooke Allison includes two singles: "The Kiss-Off (Goodbye)" and "Thought You Might Wanna Know", with the former peaking at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart.[1]
Background
In 2001, Allison signed to Virgin Records after a recording executive discovered some of her songs on the internet.[2]
The album was promoted through the children's television channel Nickelodeon.[3] Allison appeared on a number of TV programs to promote it, including Nickelodeon's Slime Time Live. Allison guest starred on the Nickelodeon television series Taina in the season two episode, Sabotage. The album's closing track, "Say Goodbye", is featured in the episode.
Critical reception
The album received generally mixed reviews, with the Knight Ridder calling it "a classic exhibit of the pop music industry's assembly-line tendencies".[4] Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic praised "The Kiss-Off (Goodbye)" and "Toodle-Oo" but wrote that "Allison tries so hard to sound different while remaining commercial enough to be successful, her record can be grating at times".
Track listing
Notes
- signifies an additional producer
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Brooke Allison.[5]
- Elton Ahi – production, mixing, strings, piano
- Agostina – make-up
- Brooke Allison – lead and background vocals
- Michael Argento – spoken vocals on interludes
- Michael Blakey – production, mixing, drum programming, percussion, strings, executive producer
- Chelsea Brummet – spoken vocals on interludes
- David Campbell – strings
- Scott Canady – bass guitar
- Frank Chevalier – stylist
- Cario Dalla Chiesa – photography
- Yong-Bae Cho – engineering
- Serge Colbert – strings
- Demetric Collins – guitars, percussion
- Claudio Cueni – mixing
- Jim Davis – assistant engineer
- Elwood Edwards – sample vocals
- Damon Elliott – production, programming
- Mary Fagot – creative direction
- Craig Furkas – engineer
- Grant Geissman – acoustic guitar
- Bruce Gladstone – executive producer
- Van Gogh – production
- Jesse Gorman – assistant engineer
- Julie Griffin – background vocals
- Portia Griffin – background vocals
- John Guidon – executive producer
- David Guerrero – assistant engineer
- Tim Heintz – keyboards
- Kent Huffnagle – assistant engineer
- Charles Jefferson – bass guitar
- Denaine Jones – background vocals
- Aaron Kaplan – assistant engineer
- Tim Malone – mix engineer
- Matt Marrin – assistant engineer
- Ethan Mates – mixing
- Will Miller – strings
- Fred Mirza – arrangement
- Tim Neuman – creative direction
- Robert Palmer – production, guitars, keyboards
- Dave Pensada – mix engineer
- Mark Portmann – production, strings
- Ian Prince – keyboards
- Serena Radaelli – hair
- Peter Rafelson – production, mixing, engineering
- Eric Roinestad – art direction, design
- Christophe Saluzzo – hair
- Eddy Schreyer – mastering
- Jill Tengan – assistant engineer
- Michael Thompson – guitars
- Jeff Vincent – production, keyboards
Notes and References
- AOL Taps Brooke Allison To Advise 'Tweens' . Billboard . June 27, 2001 . June 5, 2014.
- Web site: K. Elder . Roberts . Robert K. Elder . Rockers look to Internet as shortcut to stardom . . August 11, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811141650/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/08/05/rockers-look-to-internet-as-shortcut-to-stardom/ . August 11, 2024 . August 5, 2001 . live.
- Web site: New teen diva turns from pop to rock – DU Clarion . 2023-08-13 . en-US.
- Gubbins, Teresa (2001) "Reviews of releases by Lonestar, Lil' Romeo, Jim Lauderdale.(The Dallas Morning News)", Knight Ridder, July 3, 2001.
- Brooke Allison . . 2001 . Virgin Records.
