Kiss & Tell
| Selena Gomez & The Scene
Kiss & Tell
Kiss & Tell is the debut studio album by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene. The album was released on September 29, 2009 through Hollywood Records. The album is composed mainly of pop rock and electronic rock, with Gomez citing bands such as Forever the Sickest Kids as influences on the album. Ted Bruner and Trey Vittetoe worked extensively on the record with Gomez, producing multiple tracks. Gomez worked with Gina Schock on several songs for the album, while Rock Mafia produced two of the album's tracks. -Wikipedia
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The Guardian
If the lyrics were half as inventive as the tunes, these Disney powerpop albums would be classics; as it is, though, they'll have to settle for being great fun.
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Billboard
The song "Naturally" has a juicy and instantly memorable vocal hook, while the pop-punk title track expertly channels the good-natured sass of the Go-Go's (no surprise, given drummer Gina Schock's co-writing credit). But if Gomez wants to outlast her current context, her music could use more of her in it.
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Digital Spy
Unfortunately, the catchy hooks that anchor 'Naturally' are often M.I.A elsewhere on the album, with many songs coming off as saccharine, forgettable Miley/Avril/Pink hybrids. 'I Promise You' and the peppy title track manage to buck the trend, but something like 'Falling Down', for example, sounds uninspired and suspiciously similar to Pink's 'U + Ur Hand'. Even so, at just 17 Gomez has clearly struck a chord with her target fanbase, and her vocals pack enough of a punch to mark her out as an "artist in progress"
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StayFamous.net
Regardless of how long her music career lasts, Selena Gomez is a superstar who is proving she can do just about anything.
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BBC Home
Kiss & Tell includes Selena's disco-pop debut single Naturally and the album has even more fantastic upbeat songs that you won't be able to resist dancing to!
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Pop Dose
She doesn’t quite get there on Kiss & Tell, but as teen pop records go, it really isn’t bad. The Scene might not sound like a real band, but these songs do at least have a modicum of live energy, which is more than we’ve been conditioned to hope for from albums like this, and while she isn’t as natural-sounding a singer as Lovato, Gomez has stronger vocal chops than, say, Hilary Duff.
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All Music
Thanks to the fact that one of the songwriting teams on the record has former Go-Go Gina Schock as a member and thanks to bouncy, peppy songs like "Kiss & Tell," that's not really too much of a stretch. Probably the best idea for the future is for Gomez to keep making records as diverse and well constructed as Kiss & Tell, keeping the same producers and songwriters on board and maintaining the same smart and sassy attitude she displays throughout. That should keep the tweens and teens happy while impressing and thrilling fans of perfectly constructed capital "P" pop, too.
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