Vanessa Hudgens Identified Review

While the second installment of “High School Musical” was extremely successful, that might not be the case for Vanessa Hudgens’ second album,” Identified.”

The follow-up to her gold debut, “V,” ”Identified” shows Hudgens hasn’t really grown musically in the two years since that album’s release – her voice remains weak and uninspiring. The CD adds to her problems with sub par material.

“I’m tired of the boys who don’t like to dance/And if you don’t like to dance you don’t stand a chance,” she sings on the first single, “Sneakernight.” The song, produced by JR Rotem (Rihanna “SOS,” Sean Kingston “Beautiful Girls”), is sophomoric and tailor-made for the Radio Disney-set. It is also indicative of the entire CD.

A few tunes suggest the promise that “Identified” fails to deliver. The title track is solid, as is “First Bad Habit.”Amazed,” featuring Lil Mama, is arguably the album’s best track: The lip-gloss queen and the Disney star may even see a Top 40 hit with this one. All those songs were paroduced by Dr. Luke (Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone,” Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl”); Clearly he should hve played a bigger role in this CD.

- icoolblogger (owner of teencgossip)