A few years before the teenage-to-womanhood liberation of 's epic album, stripped a lot of her roots away on this album-length ode to being teenager. It's a heavily sugarcoated affair, no doubt due in part to the production aesthetics of , who took many of the ideas implemented here and evolved them for other artists such as later in the decade. The topics are highly predictable in nature, with titles like and pretty much delivering as advertised. However, 's vocals are in prime form, as she easily reaches a wide range of notes and delivers passages with relative ease, something that a very young diva in training by the name of no doubt heard on her parents' turntable. ~ Rob Theakston