Country: Kristy Lee Cook
Why Wait **
Published: Sun, Oct. 12, 2008 12:00AM
Modified Sun, Oct. 12, 2008 06:10AM
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closeWith Kristy Lee Cook, Nashville's corporate tastemakers have once more turned to their cost-effective marketing tool, television's "American Idol." There, they've found a singer who is marginally talented but young and attractive. If you think otherwise, consider that the 24-year-old crooner managed only a seventh-place finish in the series' seventh season.
Cook's Arista Records debut, "Why Wait," is an uninspired mash of song mill fare presented in a pop style one might expect from a singer whose role models include Shania Twain, Faith Hill and LeAnn Rimes. With her indistinct voice and mediocre songs, Cook doesn't measure up.
The album's debut single, "15 Minutes of Shame," sets the tone with its get-even, "I'll show you" vibe; Cook exacts vengeance as a recording artist with a "shout out" from radio's bully pulpit. As the first impression from this unpromising 10-song beginning, Cook has put the cart before the horse.
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Cook capitalizes on brashness and volume, yet she's at her best when she tones it down for the "like mother, like daughter" ballad "Like My Mother Does" and the family values bromide "Homesick," a rumination on leaving home to strike it big -- presumably on "American Idol."
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