VIVIAN GREEN
A Love Story
Columbia
This insipid, uninspired debut can be added to the mammoth pile of attempts at soul and R and B that must surely overwhelm the mailboxes at our fine city’s urban music stations. Vivian Green, former backup singer for the likes of Boyz II Men, treads ground that so many before her have trampled upon. Rather than taking creative cues from former frontwoman Jill Scott, Green instead spews forth ballad upon ballad about lost love, bad love, good love and ohmigod-it-hurts love. From the supposedly empowering "Wishful Thinking" to the smells-like-a-single "Emotional Roller Coaster," her mediocrity dulls the mind. The attempt at some sort of cool jazz vibe in "No Sitting By the Phone" is possibly the only thing of interest, but it is not able to pull the rest of the album out of the depths of tedium.
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