Ten Feet High

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Ten Feet High

Studio album by Andrea Corr
Released	June 18, 2007
Recorded	2006
Genre	Pop-rock
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer(s)	Nellee Hooper

Ten Feet High is Andrea Corr's debut solo album. Previously entitled Present, the album is produced by Nellee Hooper whose credits include U2, Gwen Stefani, Madonna & Björk and is executive produced by U2's Bono. The album is due for release on June 18, 2007 with the lead single, "24 Hours", being released on June 11, 2007.

All the songs on the album have been composed by Andrea herself, save for one: a cover of the first Squeeze hit "Take Me I'm Yours". According to unnamed sources in an article from Hot Press Magazine in January 2007, the album will be different from The Corrs' sound. ^[1]

[edit] Track listing

"Hello Boys"
"Anybody There"
"Shame On You"
"I Do"
"Ten Feet High"
"Champagne From A Straw"
"24 Hours"
"This Is What It's All About"
"Take Me I'm Yours"
"Stupidest Girl In The World"
"Ideal World"

[edit] About the album

Ten Feet High sees Andrea's creative doors pushed open and discovers her gift for story-telling. And she does it with a marvellously versatile voice, which no one has heard until now. The musical styles on Ten Feet High are immensely diverse and in each song, Andrea's showing the many facets of her personality, both the playful and the serious.

"For me music has always been more about the song itself than the singing, "Andrea explains. "I love songs, which tell stories, like those from Neil Young or Simon & Garfunkel, which are taking you to completely different places. "So I wanted to record an album full of stories, in which I could let my fantasy take its own course", says Andrea about the album. "Complete unrestrained!". All eleven Songs on the album - which have a big variety in styles than most other contemporary albums - were brought to life with the help of Andrea's piano. Some are light and pleasant from the very beginning and others are more dark.

The electric-like Hello Boys, shows Andrea, who's known for her soft and gentle voice, as a seductive-dangerous cat with drawn claws. The song begins with the line "I know you are watching me / I think that I like it". The song's about a lady in a brothel, one of her kind, who only receives very special customers and is the most desirable woman in her job. Anybody There is a groovy pop song, in which Andrea asks whether there is someone who will love her. Shame On You, is an exceptionally beautiful song full wonderful musical nuances, whose ease carries a very serious message: it concerns mobilization and war. It's a protestsong by means of the prism of love. I Do is a song as light as the air and as playful as a child and describes a fairy tale wedding. Champagne From A Straw plays with the superficialnesses of life and aims at the not always completely problem-free ease of existance with an ironical touch of a Rumba and Mexican Mariachi trumpet-like instrument. The single 24 Hours is a perfect pop song, which tries to capture the mystery of love, and has an easy and euphonic melody with a ravishing rhythm. There's also a cover on the album, which is quite radical: Take Me I m Yours is a Squeeze-classic, which Andrea made her own. The beautiful ballad Ideal World forms the conclusion of the album, the song is about a hopeless attempt to live a perfect life.^[2]