Hollywood Records
2008
Unfold
About This Album
At first glance, it seems that singer/songwriter Marié Digby has a lot going for her -- or a lot of strikes against her, depending on your perspective. A cute twentysomething hailing from California, Digby hits upon every single mainstream pop trend of the new millennium. She first surfaced as the 2004 winner of Pantene's Pro-Voice Music Competition (her winning tune, "Miss Invisible"), signaling her comfort with cozying up to corporations, something that only increased as she came closer to the spring 2008 release of her debut album, Unfold, as she appeared in a Gap campaign and had her songs heard on Smallville. Much more significantly, Marié covered Rihanna's inescapable hit "Umbrella" in the summer of 2007, with her version initially appearing as an acoustic cover on YouTube, where it became a viral hit, leading to her version being heard on MTV's reality show The Hills, paving the way to the release of Unfold. All this chumminess with mall culture undoubtedly raised Digby's profile, but it also had an unwanted side effect of painting her as a musician who existed only as a corporate creature -- an impression that is unfair because at its best, Unfold is a winning, tuneful debut that displays stronger songcraft than those initial forays into mass culture might suggest.
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