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Lessons To Be Learned | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gabriella Cilmi
Label: Universal
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 14
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 43
Discs: 1
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
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| » | Save The Lies | | » | Sweet About Me | | » | Sanctuary | | » | Einstein | | » | Got No Place To Go | | » | Don't Wanna Go To Bed Now | | » | Messy | | » | Awkward Game | | » | Safer | | » | Cigarettes And Lies | | » | Terrifying | | » | Sit In The Blues | | » | Echo Beach |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Poptastic...!!! May 14, 2008
This is a very good pop album sung and performed in a manner very alike Sofie Ellis Bextor. There are whole range of voices being used on this recording ranging from the afore mentioned Sofie to Sinead O'Conner. The fact that Gabriella has this range is a true complement to her but, on the whole, the album is all very predictable.
Good party pop.
A great debut May 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first saw Gabriella on 'Later with Jools Holland' and I was very impressed. I bought the album and I am still very impressed. An excellent debut album. The songs are easy to listen to, sung well and the production is spot on. I look forward to hearing more from her in the future.
AMAZING! April 18, 2008
3 out of 3 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.
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...
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.
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!
WATCH OUT DUFFY!!!!!!!!! April 15, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Gabriella is absolutely fantastic. Sweet About Me is such a cool song. All that I can say is watch out Duffy, because Gabriella makes you look duff!!!!!!
 A promising start April 12, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I can imagine there was great delight in the Radio 2 playlist office when they first heard Sweet About Me; it ticks almost every MOR box you could wish for. Me, well I was more intrigued by the fact that this album was being "overseen" by Xenomania.
And in an essence, their presence is what sets this really rather good album apart from the chasing pack. Their eye for a catchy pop tune is undiminished and shines through like a beacon here and the fact that they're serious about pop, but not too-self serious, means that it immediately bypasses the Amy Winehouse clone argument.
Save The Lies might get a little too close to Anastacia for comfort, but it's a cracking start to the album and sets things up very nicely indeed. It's the more uptempo tracks that most grabbed my attention, the best of the bunch being Don't Wanna Go To Bed Now and Cigarettes and Lies, and even the cover version of Echo Beach works well, albeit in a camp way.
It's by no means perfect, perhaps being a little too reliant on ballads for my liking, but there is a definite sense that this could be the start of something special. Of course, Joss Stone seemed like a great talent on the back of her debut, so you'd be wise not to get too excited just yet; but on balance, Cilmi certainly looks as if she could have a bright future ahead of her.
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