Review: Richard Marx – My Own Worst Enemy

Successful as a background singer (Lionel Richie), and a music writer (multiple hits you didn’t know about, from Kenny Rogers to *N Sync), somewhere in ’91 he thought he donned the then fashionable long hair coupe, and marked his name in the music history. After a few years he went back behind the curtains keeping a low profile, yet still sharpening his writing skills. So here is a new album, and again, he proves to be a experienced allround writer. While his old hits still resonate well on many Greatest Hits albums and radio stations, here is another dozen new contemporary love songs. Filled with several pop styles and slower ballads, your finger never really twitches over the “next” button. His voice has great dynamics, reaching a few full octaves, and every song gets another treatment with trained precision, a skill rarely exploited. Taking the album as a whole, I can only say he definitely delivered the ultimate easy listening album.8-.