lazy reviewing...really not worth the scorn...in the 21st century world of the internet, literally anyone can be a blogger/critic/web personality....I used to be fairly good at keeping up w/ popular culture, now there's a new form of 'fame' those created by the internet, Youtube millionaires in their early 20s. On Twitter, it's not uncommon to see a 'verified' person tweet and have no idea who they are, only to discover they have at least a million followers and are famous on Vine, Youtube, Twitter or Facebook.....
So yes, she posted a lazy, ill informed and definitely dismissive review, but that's more a reflection on her as a reviewer than anything it has to do w/ Haley...
...The conundrum IMO about WTS is it's what alot of people....as someone who runs a Youtube channel mostly dedicated to Haley, ALOT of people constantly want her to cover a song of this or that... On the other side, there's those who want Haley to be the next Christina Aguilera, or Fifth Harmony, they want Haley to be a Pop mega star... and a third side yet, those who want Haley to pursue the classy jazzy side of her talents, to play the grand halls.
whatever Haley puts out, a fair number of her fans will be vocally disappointed.
....how long have we heard "I wish there was a studio of 'Can't Find MY Way Home' or Oh Darling"....well, that's what we have.....Baby it's you...how often have we seen posts hoping for a studio of that? Now we have songs, covers that have a meaning to Haley...she is making an artistic choice, involving her parents, she is also choosing this opportunity to immortalize this moment where she got to record songs near and dear to all of them on VINYL....
Think what WTS 'means' to Haley....her choices are not for profitability, nor vanity, nor prestige, her choices have meaning.
For me, I'm true and blue "Haley Reinhart"...she's the artist, I'm not, I'm here for the ride, no matter what genre....
I have never encountered an artist like her, had the fortune to follow her from her early beginnings, learning, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes. Her path has been unconventional to say the least, which is fine by me as long as she continues to grow.
That is the bottom line IMO when it comes from 'no name' bloggers and reviews like this one...they are not professional because they don't do their diligence, they don't take each job seriously...how do they know the artist they blow off could be the next Michael Jackson?
On the subject of this review, someone said to me 'Slezak gets it'...to which I replied, because we understand WTS in it's context. So does Slezak.
