| Spoiled Girl |  | Artist: Carly Simon
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  15 reviews
Media: Audio Cassette
UPC: 074643997041
EAN: 0074643997041
ASIN: B00000EH4Q
Release Date: October 17, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | My New Boyfriend - Carly Simon, Simon, Carly | | • | Come Back Home - Carly Simon, Brackman, Jacob | | • | Tonight and Forever - Carly Simon, Schwartz, Eddie | | • | Spoiled Girl - Carly Simon, Kunkel, Russ | | • | Tired of Being Blonde - Carly Simon, Raspberry, Larry | | • | The Wives Are in Connecticut - Carly Simon, Simon, Carly | | • | Anyone But Me - Carly Simon, Baker, Arthur | | • | Interview - Carly Simon, Simon, Carly | | • | Make Me Feel Something - Carly Simon, Simon, Carly | | • | Can't Give It Up - Carly Simon, Goldmark, Andy | | • | Black Honeymoon - Carly Simon, Brackman, Jacob |
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| Customer Reviews:
 One of my top 3 fav Carly albums!!! August 18, 2008
Jeremy Gloff (Tampa, Fl United States)
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RRCUNNH8PQ98Q My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician (check me out on Amazon!) and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!!
 Danceable Cynicism May 25, 2008
Jim Robinson (St. Paul, Minnesota)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with many of the other reviews here: this is a fine, underappreciated album. Carly Simon's vocals are tough and appropriately aggressive. There is a darkness at work beneath the 80s sheen and the lyrics are witty and adult. Why do so many people take "Interview" at face value? Did they not listen to the whole song? Same with "Spoiled Girl." Simon is COMMENTING on the dangers of narcissism, not indulging in it. The mid-80s was a bleak time, I think, but Carly Simon filtered all the bombast into something really intriguing.
 Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times..... August 14, 2007
Robert C. Hufford (Hopewell, VA USA)
....and Carly put out one dud. This album came out in the midst of Carly's "rock" period, and suffered from too many producers, and from being "too rock". Yes, Carly did rock just fine, but she never was [and certainly isn't now] a pure rocker. Too "over the top", too much....
This isn't really a "bad" album; Carly could never do that to us. But, instead of a "New Boyfriend", she should have gotten new producers, and music.
Carly we love you; you're beautiful and wonderful. For a lot of singers, this would be the best they could ever do, but....Sorry, Carly...it's a dud.
Stinging social commentary - and great songs June 5, 2004
Andy Agree (Omaha, NE)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is Carly Simon's most underrated album, and if archeologists found it a thousand years from now, they might use it to examine the emotionally wrenching consequences among those of the American metropolitan baby boom generation in the 1980s who treated sex as a cheap, but addicting commodity. In other words, this is more than an album of good songs, it is an album with stingingly accurate social commentary. Carly's has a unifying vision, and she executes it brilliantly. "The Wives Are in Connecticut" presents a recently married man who confesses "the first year I was faithful" en route to a successful seduction after work in Manhattan. He is the classic "yuppie" of 80s lore, nagged by paranoia that his wife may be consorting with who-knows-who up in suburban Connecticut. In "Anyone But Me" and "Can't Give It Up", Carly plumbs the depths of female desire for men who "can't give". "Interview" describes the playfully escalating sexual innuendoes that dominate an encounter between Carly and a young male interviewer. In "Black Honeymoon", a newlywed woman watches humiliated as her husband plots his next sexual conquest with the "girl across the room". "Make Me Feel Something" is the cry of a woman who has had sought "feeling" through pleasure and has no feeling left. "Tonight and Forever", in total contrast, and in answer to "Make Me Feel Something", is a wedding song, anchored firmly in the female frame of mind ("Oh sisters, make my wedding bed"). The groom is nowhere seen, yet is promised, in soaring voices "I am yours!" It is so antithetical to the pleasure-driven addictions of the other songs that it serves to underscore their message of alienation, while proclaiming eternal, committed love as the answer to it. And that's just the lyrics! Musically, Carly's incomparable voice is in fine form, and she latches it successfully to up-tempo beats and Russ Kunkel drum tracks without compromising any of its beauty or her integrity. I especially like her seductive low notes in "Anyone But Me", the utterly gorgeous repeating phrase "Black Honeymoon - I'll be leaving you soon" closing the album, and the gorgeous conclusion of "Tonight and Forever" - a truly ecstatic song. It may or may not be coincidental that the songs with the most interesting lyrics are also the best musically. The four songs I haven't mentioned are second or third rate, and unfortunately those are mainly the ones Amazon allows you to sample. But there is enough substance here to make this one of my favorite pop albums of the 80s.
Why did it get a bad rap? Carly didn't Like it! June 2, 2004
Chris Matthews (Scituate, MA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Carly said in an Interview or in the "Ask Carly" section of her website, that this album was a flop because she didn't like the songs and it didn't sell well. Hello Big Man didn't sell well, but she liked the music. I personally like the album (as a teen) and I wish she had put more albums out like Spy, Boys in the Trees, Come Upstairs, Hello Big Man, and Spoiled Girl. They have a nice beat. But I guess she can do what she does best writing the way she did in the early to mid 70's and Coming Around Again to now, Slow confessional, touching lyrics. We love you Carly! We don't care what the reviewers say! We don't care what record sales say! WE LOVE YOUR MUSIC!
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