All About Music

Scarlett Johansson has been doing great when it comes to her most recent films and she has been given high praise by some of the harshest critics in the movie industry. The music industry was not as kind to her this week as they reviewed her debut album.

The album “Anywhere I Lay My Head” was released on Tuesday and was a collection of some of the best Tom Waits songs. Johansson said that recording for the record was “an intimate experience.” Yet, many reviews seem to think that it was more painful instead of intimate.

Many of the critics felt that her unusual voice became lost in the many back up instruments that were being used. For some critics, that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“Johansson’s voice is unremarkable and her pitch sometimes unsteady; she’s a faintly goth Marilyn Manson lost in a sonic fog,” wrote Rolling Stone magazine, which gave her a lukewarm 2.5 stars out of five.

The British magazine Mojo stated that the recordings by Johansson were “fussy and forgettable” and that it didn’t help that the album started off with an instrumental song.

The disc received a middling “C” grade from Entertainment Weekly magazine, which wrote that her “expressionless voice” was buried “deeply in the druggy ambiance.”

The Washington Post stated that even after listening to the whole album (which is 40 minutes long) you will “still have no earthly idea what she sounds like.”

“The album is ultimately too ethereal for its own good,” the Post said. “Every song is like every other song, even the ones that sound different.”