Tweet is not so sweet
Tweet’s album, Southern Hummingbird, sold nearly 200,000 copies during its first week on the shelves.
Her lead single, “Oops (Oh My),” continues to be a mainstay on the radio and is currently No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles, but unfortunately CD sales and radio play don’t necessarily translate into quality albums.
Tweet went through very difficult times and felt the need to express herself, but she does it an ambiguous way.
When you listen to “Oops (Oh My),” you wonder if she’s singing about women’s beauty or their less attractive side.
“I was looking so good I couldn’t reject myself / I was feeling so good I had to touch myself,” she sings.
However, “Oops (Oh My)” and “Call Me” have shuttering and electronic rhythms that play with variations and echoes of voice.
Tweet’s ballads, “Smoking Cigarettes” and “Motel,” emphasize her acoustic guitar skills. “Motel” is “about when I caught my man coming out of a motel with somebody else,” she explains at www.tweetmusic.com.
The prayerful “Beautiful” is “about when someone stirs your soul and they make you lose your religion.”
“Drunk” could have been a nice song with a slow and regular beat, if it hadn’t been for the words, which lack meaning and depth.
“So I decided to make this call / That I’d rather be drunk and drive away from here / I don’t wanna be sober, no, not sober, yea,” she sings.
She attempts to express love’s darker passages with songs like the plaintive “Smoking Cigarettes” and “Always Will.”
And indeed, it seems serious: “Smoking out on you / got me puffing ’bout a pack a night / And I know it ain’t healthy.”
The combination of depressive words with slow rhythms keeps the ensemble from being “Oh My.”
One song, however, brings fresh “air” to the album, but it’s untitled and plays as a secret track after the official end of the disc.
Even with the production assistance of both Missy Elliott and Timbaland, the disc remains limp.
Tweet is heading out on a 20-city U.S. tour with Glenn Lewis. The only Texas concert will be in Houston on June 16.
