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ALBUM RELEASES

TRACKLISTING
1. As A Blonde
2. Don't Let It Go To Your Head
3. If I Was A Guy
4. Get You Off
5. This Is My Life
6. Scar
7. Miss Vicious
8. Man Meets Boy
9. Troubled Girl
10. Get Over Me
11. Hole
12. The Initiator
13. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
14. Be Strong

TRACK TIME
2:51
3:52
3:21
3:48
3:46
4:07
3:06
3:32
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3:11
4:26
3:40
3:40
3:37

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:: Status: Unreleased
:: Released: N/A
:: Billboard 200 Peak Position: N/A
:: First Single: Don't Let It Go To Your Head
:: Second Single: This Is My Life

:: The Mystery Behind Sunday Love: Fefe began work on her second album Sunday Love during the summer of 2004. The album's 14-tracks were recorded over an eight month period in California. Island Records set an initial U.S. release date of September 20, 2005. Fefe promoted the album by doing a radio-tour in the U.S. and both singles off the album got their respective releases on I-Tunes. Unfortunately, the album was pushed back at least four more times during the following nine months before its eventual cancellation. "I always believe everything happens for a reason, and that change is a very good thing." Fefe said after the album's final setback.

FEFE DOBSON

TRACKLISTING
1. Stupid Little Love Song
2. Bye Bye Boyfriend
3. Take Me Away
4. Everything
5. Rock It Til' You Drop It
6. The Revolution Song
7. Kiss Me Fool
8. Unforgiven
9. We Went For A Ride
10. Give It Up
11. Julia
12. 8x10
13. Don't Go (Girls And Boys) (Bonus Track)*
14. Rainbow

TRACK TIME
3:19
4:05
3:29
4:12
4:05
3:52
4:00
4:07
3:43
3:36
4:03
4:19
3:18
2:30

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:: Status: Released
:: Released: December 9, 2003
:: Billboard 200 Peak Position: #67
:: First Single: Take Me Away
:: Second Single: Everything
:: Third Single: Don't Go (Girls & Boys)
:: Writers: Fefe Dobson & Jay Levine

:: All Music Guide Review: Working closely with producer Jay Levine, Fefe Dobson created a rousing debut that, despite being a highly melodic and relentlessly effective pop album, is rescued from flavor-of-the-moment dissipation by a schizophrenic rock crunch and her own attractively bad attitude. The histrionic kiss-off "Bye Bye Boyfriend" lurches like Tracy Bonham's "Mother Mother," whipping wildly between a headbanging chorus and shuffling, atmospheric verses. "I remember how it was when we started off/With your tattoo and your lip pierced/And the raggedy style you used to rock" -- Dobson doesn't pause between these words. Instead she lets them tumble, stumbling over one another in a giddy summation of the relationship's salad days. This is just one instance where Dobson's diction, dicked-over anger, and damn huge voice goose her debut past its popternative tendencies. She coats the couplets of bombastic pop-punk opener "Stupid Little Love Song" in layers of jaded sarcasm -- just like a frowning punk rock girl would do if she had to reveal her crush to the captain of the football team. "Everything" marries the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" to Michelle Branch, but it's just Fefe making that unholy union work. She has to move a bit faster on "Rock It Till You Drop It," a strange studio shape-shifter that strips down and urbanizes Eric Clapton's "It's in the Way That You Use It" while referencing Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way." It also features a cameo from...Tone-Loc? Yes, it's this kind of freestyle borrowing and reassembly that might marginalize an artist who was something less then herself; fortunately, words like "less" and "marginal" mean little to Fefe Dobson. She inserts a touching piano breakdown into the rousing rock plea of "Kiss Me Fool," and swallows whole the crunchy, muted power chords of "Unforgiven." Some sugar pop albums would ask a deadbeat dad for his love, if such a song were even included. "Unforgiven" is that song, but it staunchly refuses any kind of forgiveness. "Where were you when I plugged in my first guitar?" Dobson spits during a litany of absentee moments, and the track's beautifully atmospheric breaks only make the subsequent urgency of its stiletto power chords more palpable. Fefe Dobson definitely has an opportunistic streak, and its stylistic cherry-picking can be trying. But production niceties and savvy marketing can't fake the talent Fefe has. It's her willingness to inject pop with pluck and rock as much as she flutters that makes Dobson's debut much more than just a popternative clone. Best of all, it still caters to those casual fans who won't know any better.

:: Rolling Stone Review: "Sassy" is the first word that comes to mind on hearing the ebullient music of FeFe Dobson, a precocious, bi-racial Canadian teenager. Guitar-driven pop, informed by an appreciation of bands that range from various Jackson siblings to Nirvana, makes up the bulk of her eponymous debut. She has a knack for hooks, as the first single, "Take Me Away," amply demonstrates, but doesn't sacrifice content. "Unforgiven" is a snappy, screeching "screw you" to her absent father, while "Bye Bye Boyfriend" offers further evidence of her sharp tongue as she dispenses with an ex. Dobson was aided and abetted by producer Jay Levine and master mixer by Tom Lord-Alge, and the resulting dozen tracks (plus the hidden "Rainbow," a piano-and-strings ballad) reflect a rock sensibility that swings from classic to thrash: there are moments on "Stupid Little Love Song" that recall the Eagles' "Hotel California," while other songs bristle with punk energy. It's an eclectic and impressive debut from a spunky but surprisingly mature eighteen-year-old.

FEFE DOBSON (UK VERSION)

TRACK TIME
3:19
4:05
3:29
4:12
4:05
3:52
4:00
4:07
3:43
3:36
4:03
4:19
2:30
3:55

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:: Status: Released
:: Released: May 3, 2004
:: Billboard 200 Peak Position: N/A
:: First Single: Everything

:: Did You Know?: Fefe's bonus track on the U.K. release of her debut is called "Don't Let Me Fall". It was one of the last songs she wrote and recorded for her debut album.

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