Cover of Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

Debbie Gibson

18 August 1987

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4.9
Ratings
17
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Tracklist 10 tracks, 40:51
  1. 1Out of the Blue3:56
  2. 2Staying Together4:05
  3. 3Only in My Dreams3:57
  4. 4Foolish Beat4:24
  5. 5Red Hot3:55
  6. 6Wake Up to Love3:43
  7. 7Shake Your Love3:45
  8. 8Fallen Angel3:46
  9. 9Play the Field4:37
  10. 10Between the Lines4:42

Reviews

Rated 6/10

Right out of the gate with the late easy cheese synths and drum machines. Only In My Dreams is a total bop. That's about it though.

Rated 4/10

In short, this album is a teeny bopper rip off of Madonna's early work, which is to say it's synthpop/dance-pop with some freestyle elements. I'm not a fan of Madonna, so unfortunately the diet version does nothing for me. The song Only In My Dreams shows some talent, but really that's the only salvagable part of this.

There are a couple of interesting things. As said before there's some elements of 80s freestyle, which wasn't really represented on the actual list. The most interesting thing by far is that Gibson wrote every song on the album, which is very rare for young radio friendly pop artists like her (even Madonna didn't write all the songs on her debut), and she was just 16 when it was released!

Should it be on the list: No

Top 3 songs: Out of the Blue, Only In My Dreams, Shake Your Love

Rated 2/10

Why is this on here, this is awful lmao. 80s teen slop.

Rated 4/10

It's completely harmless background music, but every time I focused up on it I just got more bored and annoyed. It's inoffensive, but I can hear this or stuff that sounds like it at every major retailer across the United States, why would I listen to a front-to-back album of it?

Rated 6/10

en varmaan muuten tämmöstä purkkapoppia arvostelisi näin korkealla, mutta onhan siinä upeat kasarisaundit. 3/5

Rated 8/10

Favorite songs: Fallen Angel, Shake Your Love, Foolish Beat, Only in My Dreams, Red Hot, Out of the Blue

Least favorite songs: Between the Lines

4/5

Rated 4/10

Just the most boring, twinkly over-produced type of late 80s pop music. Complete snoozefest.

Rated 2/10

Over produced and under written, although she was a child at the time.
That 80s gated drum sound means it sounds really dated.
Fine as far as pop goes, and it is an oddly underrepresented genre in the book, but this is not the best example of (good) dance-pop

Rated 4/10

I wasn’t aware of Debbie Gibson before today, so not sure why this is any better than the 80’s pop albums already on the list. My UK bias would have Kylie on ahead of this, but 80’s pop isn’t really my thing.