Amazon.com If the 9-year-old in your life hasn't alerted you already, consider this your heads up: Not since Hilary Duff has Disney delivered the masses a tween sensation as hot as the double-life-leading Miss Hannah Montana. More important for speaker-blowing second- to seventh-graders and the parents forced to buy them CDs, though, no small-screen sensation transcends the tube more convincingly. Part party girl and part plain old good girl, Montana--a sweet-voiced, playful performer--never skimps on the pipes. Country fans will chalk that up to our rhyme-named heroine's lineage; 14-year-old Miley Cyrus, who plays Montana, is the daughter of Nashville star Billy Ray Cyrus (who duets on this disc's sentimental, twang-resistant last track). The rest of the world, though, is apt to find itself belting along based on Hannah's unsinkable hooks and frothy Ashlee-meets-Hilary vocals alone: theme song "Best of Both Worlds" bumps around off a Joan Jett-reminiscent springboard; "Who Said" rips a page from the emo diaries; and "Just Like You" ladles on harmonies sweet enough to attach a stick to. Additional tracks like Jesse McCartney's "She's No You" and B5's Earth Wind & Fire redo "Shining Star" are first-rate complements to the proceedings, but make no mistake: this dance-happy hybrid belongs to the reigning pop princess alone. --Tammy La Gorce
Customer Reviews:
hannah montanaSeptember 16, 2008 JOEY D.(NEW JERSEY , USA) my kids enjoy the i carly cd over the hanna montana, they like to hear the title song and some of the songs presented in the show, but not to crazy about the other tracks...
Pop GarbageAugust 28, 2008 C. Rhoads C'mon people! What are you thinking? How can you call this music? This is nothing but a pathetic attempt by Billy Ray Cyrus and the Disney corporation to make millions upon millions of dollars by selling this awful garbage to you. This is barely music in my book. Real music needs to be kept in peoples stereos and not this pop garbage which will make your ears bleed. Go listenin to The Who, Led Zeppelin or any other classic rock group and try to tell me this is better. I dare you.
Okay MusicJune 17, 2008 Ashley(Ohio, USA!) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first got this C.D. when it first came out a year ago or whatever I was much more childish and liked it but now it's like what was I thinking. The music is just...I dunno too childish so for maybe ages who love Hannah Montana they'll like it but if you just sort of like her don't waste your money!
My daughter loves this CDMay 14, 2008 Jeanette K. Stoia(San Jose, CA) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter has recently become a huge Hannah Montana fan. When she brought this CD to school, she happily showed it to whomever she could announcing that she's got Hannah Montana. Her teacher plays it in the classroomso the entire class gets to enjoy it.
The sound is ringing in my headApril 24, 2008 S. Patten(Melbourne, Australia) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't get away from the sound. The kids play and sing to it whenever they can and of course I have to listen to it unless I can use the chainsaw or grinder to sound it out. This young lady seems to have a good head on her shoulders and a great voice, and her tunes are your standard music without all the throat ripping or doof doofing of many other current sounds. It will be a phase your young teenagers go through which could be alot worse but can't be much better then this album. The little cherubs will love it.
