To celebrate that Miley Cyrus’ album Breakout went platinum, Hollywood Records released a Platinum Edition of the album. Though in reality the release was planned before the original Breakout was even released. It would have been quite embarrassing if the album hadn’t been platinum yet. The platinum edition was released two weeks ago but you can blame the mailman for this late review.
In principle the album is still Breakout, the first twelve tracks on the album are the same ones. At the end two songs were added as bonus tracks, bringing the album to a total length of 45:19 which makes it more acceptable; still leaves almost an extra 35 minutes they could fit on there. The album also comes with a bonus DVD.
We already know the first twelve songs so we’ll just let those be. The first new song on the album is Hovering, a “duet” with Miley’s half-brother Trace Cyrus who’s in the band Metro Station. Though duet isn’t exactly the right word, Miley even stated that they recorded on two different days so they weren’t in a studio together. Hovering is really a normal Miley song with Trace shouting here and there which raises the question why Trace was even added. It’s an alright song though a bit short with a length of only two and a half minutes.
The second new track is Someday, which is a song written by Miley. I have no idea what genre to put this song in, comes closest to eighties style really. That’s what the electronic tune in the background suggest anyway. Miley has shown to experiment a bit before and this isn’t any different. Again it’s a decent song but it doesn’t make the album better, in quality it’s along the line of the rest of the album really.
The bonus DVD is a bit superfluous, sure it’s nice to see a making of the 7 Things music video and some live performances. All of those things however have already aired on TV, be it on the Disney Channel or on other networks. That some of the videos even still say Disney Channel in the voice over is just a bit sloppy. It gives the impression of someone at Hollywood Records just randomly collecting a couple of videos and sticking them on a DVD. There isn’t actually any original content.
So the judgment of the album stays the same; four out of five. Breakout Platinum Edition isn’t better than the normal Breakout, the two added songs are nice but who already has the original Breakout doesn’t really need the Platinum Edition. For the die hard fans it’s probably a must have but for the bulk of people the standard Breakout will do just fine.
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