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Lessons To Be Learned |  | Artist: Gabriella Cilmi
Label: Universal
Category: Music
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 1404
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 54 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517633070
EAN: 0602517633070
ASIN: B0012R0RA8
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Save The Lies | | • | Sweet About Me | | • | Sanctuary | | • | Einstein | | • | Got No Place To Go | | • | Don\x{2019}t Want To Go To Bed | | • | Messy | | • | Awkward Game | | • | Safer | | • | Cigarettes and Lies | | • | Terrifying | | • | Sit in The Blues | | • | Echo Beach (UK Bonus Track) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk review
It's hard to imagine someone even younger than 19-year-old Laura Marling making a splash on the music scene, but 16-year-old Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi is doing a pretty good job. Having smashed apart stereotypes of innocence with her killer single "(There's Nothing) Sweet About Me", Cilmi (pronounced "Chill Me") now offers a debut that's not only lyrically and emotionally mature, but boasts the kind of potent musical content guaranteed to propel you towards the dancefloor. iLessons To Be Learned/i is a diverse bag. Produced by Xenomania (Girls Aloud, Sugababes) it's seemingly influenced by everyone from Stevie Wonder and the Kings of Leon, though it'll inevitably draw the most comparisons to Amy Winehouse, thanks to Cilmi's soaring vocals, the record's modern-Motown feel and Xenomania's bright, punchy production. Opener "Save The Lies", though, is nothing like Winehouse--a big, in-your-face disco-stomper with a massive irrefutable chorus. The record drops from there into sultry soul territory with tracks like "Sanctuary", "Einstein", and "Safer", and more upbeat fare such as the electronic "Don't Wanna Go To Bed Now", rocky tracks like "Messy" and the bluesy "Cigarettes And Lies". These stylistic diversions set Cilmi apart from the rest of the 'new soul' brigade, and help give her a voice of her own.--iDanny McKenna/i
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 Brilliant: A Star Is Born ! March 29, 2008
Mr. Mark Hagley (barnstaple, devon United Kingdom)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
Lucky to have stumbled upon Gabriella when i took my daughter to see the Sugababes recently. She just blew me away with a fantastic live performance and the album is no disappointment with a mixture of great "rock chick" songs and songs Amy Winehouse would be proud of,and all at the age of 16,unbeleivable.
br /This girl should be a big star soon and quite frankly she deserves everything that comes her way.
br /So if your thinking about buying this album just go for it,you will not be disapointed.
A Fantastic first Album !!!! April 1, 2008
Mr. J. E. Kersey (England)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Too be perfectly honest, if this girl does not get acclaim real soon it'll be proof that the Music industry is truly fixed!!!! Seriously this is a very good album. A terrific voice bounces out of some very admirable music rifts. Not seen her live yet, but would think she has got something new to offer a somewhat drab pop rock industry at the moment IMO! Only 16 hmmmm doesn't seem possible but so what, the girl can sing and should be top dollar!! Do yourselves a favour and just buy the album, you won't regret it. There are some very catchy tunes inside!!
THIS WILL BE HUGE March 20, 2008
B. Wasley (Melbourne, Australia)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was fortunate enough to be given a 6 track sampler EP (work in radio in Australia) and this album will be huge, she is brilliant, great song writing, catchy tracks, cannot wait to hear the finished product and can't believe she is only 16. Anyway this girl deserves any and all success that comes her way, haven't been this excited about a new artist since I don't remember, all hail Gabriella hehe.
Fantastic In Newcastle 25th March 2008 March 26, 2008
Mr. Darren Garrett (Gateshead, UK)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Saw Gariella as the Sugababes support act last night in Newcastle and wow i was blown away, a very talented girl with a bright future ahead. Her songs are very catchy as i found myself humming along, cant wait for this album
AMAZING! April 18, 2008
S. Emmerson (UK)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Amazing! This deserves to be one of the biggest selling albums of 2008. This CD makes you grin. It blazes like your own personal chunk of sunshine. From the instantly likeable `Sweet About Me' through a whole range of brilliantly produced gotta-be-hits, `Lessons To Be Learned' is almost entirely brilliant.
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br /With lyrics that range from catchy-cute to curiously comical ("There's a caterpillar in my soul"!), performed by that engaging, amazing, unique vocal talent, this collection just makes you keep going back - and you can't help but nudge that volume control higher and higher each time...
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br /Personal favourites after first few hearings - `Don't Want To Go To Bed Now' and `Got No Place To Go'. But this is packed full of gems that might take my `favourite' place the more I listen.
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br /Do yourself a favour - get this album - put Gabriella Cilmi on your i-pod - then lie back all summer with the volume full blast and put a caterpillar in your soul!
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