Valerie – Valerie – CD

Valerie – Valerie – CD
(Counter Clockwise Music) Gahhhh?. Obviously designed as an inoffensive showcase project for another as-of-yet undiscovered Amy Grant. It would be even more perfect if she had some rags-to-riches Shania Twain angle. Valerie has that powerful, sultry vocal perfected by artists such as Chrissie Hynde in the 1980s; difference is, we wanted to hear Hynde sing because she had some tough-girl grit to back it up; Valerie sounds for all the world that she just got dumped at the prom by the minister’s son. There is nothing too inventive on this record – even when she tries to be the soul seductress on Angel she comes off sounding like a frustrated suburban housewife who’s listened to one too many Christian rock albums.
- Fibi Mutant (2000)