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The Lexington
Herald-Leader
Howard Cohen
August 6, 1999
"Hello, Bree. You don't know me, but I'm curled up in my room,
holding your CD cover in one hand and a beer in the other and I'm wondering:
Why won't you love me?"
Newcomer Bree Sharp better keep her phone number private, or she's
going to be getting plenty of calls like that. Mostly because of David Duchovny,
the 23-year-old New Yorker's aural Valentine to the brooding X-Files hunk. The
single has burned up radio station request lines across the country, and this
tale of an obsessive crush (David Duchovny I know you could love me/I'm sweet and
I'm cuddly -- I'm gonna kill Scully!) is not even the best track here.
But Sharp, with her Belinda-Carlisle-meets-Alanis-Morissette voice,
deserves credit for finding a way to use that name in a rhyme -- David Duchovny
I want you to love me/To kiss and to hug me, debrief and debug me.
Sharp's even better on the Beauty and the Beat-era Go-Go's-style
rocker "The Cheap and Evil Girl" and the bad girl anthem "Faster, Faster". While the
CD isn't one for the ages, Sharp's talent for crafting clever and catchy
three-minute tunes hints that she should avoid the one-hit-wonder trap.
Now about that threat to Scully ...
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