For everyone who counts down the days between Mandy Moore releases, here’s Gayle Day’s Beautiful Dangerous, a bright-eyed, fluffy-tailed collection of sparkly clean pop songs from the co-founder of the Los Angeles Women’s Music Festival. Appropriately, this album is a miniature women’s music festival all its own – Day’s lyrics focus on life and love from an unapologetically feminine point of view. That may seem like overstating the obvious, but no, really – this is all doe eyes and fluttering lashes, the sort of album that will leave you feeling like you’ve been shopping at Pier 1, knocked back a few glasses of chardonnay, and taken a bubble bath in some Bath & Bodyworks gel by the time it’s over. If you’re still awake when it’s over, that is — Beautiful Dangerous is a whopping 14 tracks long, and what’s worse, Day strings six ballads back-to-back in the middle, all of which sound almost exactly like one another. She’s undeniably charming (albeit very corny) when she ups the tempo and sings about things like not wanting to forget to live life to the fullest, but she doesn’t do it often enough here. For better or worse, it isn’t hard to hear why her songs have been featured in episodes of The Hills. (Littleyap 2008)
