★★★★★
In the wake of her deliciously bitchy appearance on Glee, you might have hoped the get-physical Grease star would return with a high-camp pop romp. Maybe next time. Grace and Gratitude Renewed turns out to be a soggy New Age set inspired by Newton-John's bout with breast cancer. "Remember the wounded bird still sings," she advises in "Love Is Letting Go of Fear." Worthy topic, weak tunes.
- ew.com
2010-09-10
★★★★★
With a kick in her pert little butt from John Travolta, the Melbourne chameleon has abandoned her conquest of Nashville for a funkier brand of perky, with seven more top-ten singles her reward, and she's sexier than Barbara Mandrell for damn sure. Any heterosexual man who can deny "Physical," with its detonating blonde bombshell switching off from "physical" to "animal" for the grand finale, needs his monkey-gland shot--to dismiss it as an aerobics song is brunette chauvinism, period...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
After checking out the competition--I've given up on Helen Reddy, Anne Murray repeats herself, and Loretta Lynn's latest is a bummer--I began to entertain heathenish thoughts about this MOR nemesis, whose mid-Atlantic accent inspired Tammy Wynette to found a country music association designed to exclude her. At least this woman sounds sexy, says I to meself, but Carola soon set me straight. "A geisha," she scoffed. "She makes her voice smaller than it really is just to please men...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Here we have two of the biz' primo canaries coming up with long-awaited (and, you can bet, carefully considered) albums and not exactly setting the charts on fire. Both Ross and Newton-John are selling themselves as hot-blooded pinups proudly past the innocent age (playing up your maturity is not only sound politics but also sound business, as Tina Turner proves). And both have come up with good-to-excellent records...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
It's a bit of a jolt to hear Olivia Newton-John sing about AIDS, single parenthood and a better environment. It's as if, now that she's forty and a first-time mother herself, she suddenly cares about the world...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
It's a bit of a jolt to hear Olivia Newton-John sing about AIDS, single parenthood and a better environment. It's as if, now that she's forty and a first-time mother herself, she suddenly cares about the world...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Formula for success: Take a pleasantly colorless female singer, and give her a catchy ditty bland enough for the easy-listening stations, slightly countrified for C&W; radio, with a nagging bass-voice hook for Top 40. Result: "Let Me Be There" by Olivia Newton-John, Top Five Country, Top Ten Pop. Next single? Same bass voice, same carefully tailored across-the-board appeal ? same results for "If You Love Me, Let Me Know." New album contains natural followup. "The River's Too Wide" has that same...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Here we have two of the biz' primo canaries coming up with long-awaited (and, you can bet, carefully considered) albums and not exactly setting the charts on fire. Both Ross and Newton-John are selling themselves as hot-blooded pinups proudly past the innocent age (playing up your maturity is not only sound politics but also sound business, as Tina Turner proves). And both have come up with good-to-excellent records...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
At the risk of sounding familiar, Totally Hot is an abysmal, by-the-numbers affair probably whipped up by some leading exponents of the New Hollywood music scene to capitalize on Olivia Newton-John's less-than-incandescent performance in the film version of Grease...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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