Following written in 1999.
I had never heard of Donna Lewis until I saw her music video of "I can be the one". I was writing on the laptop, the tv on in
the background in a hotel room in S.E. Asia. She came on, and I was stopped in my tracks. I was mesmerized, and have yet
to fully recover. Later, I got the Blue Planet Album, and found most of it only Ok. Some of it grows on you. "I can be the
one" stayed fresh through many many playings however. It speaks at a visceral level. It beckons to some primal need.
Inspired.


Blue Planet - Perfection   December 31, 2001
Donnaphile (Donna Lewis Online (www.geocities.com/donnalewisonline2000))
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This CD is the most beautiful and perfect CD in existence. I am not kidding. The wonderful songs on this leave (again) nothing to be desired. The songs are all wonderful. ...


Engagingly Esoteric Lyrics delivered by a Unique Voice   June 5, 1999
Eso (Oakdale)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Ms. Lewis' second album has her parting ways with studio maven Kevin Killen, and she is quite capable of carrying on the tradition of her first album to infinitely more sublime and ambient levels through her engaging soundscapes. Donna's voice could be described by some as thin or weak, but Paula Abdul or Britney Spears she is not; she is a singular artist who writes, produces, and arranges all her material and brings the format that the aforementioned artists have been accused of reducing to silly pop, to plain fun and intriguing pop.

"I Could Be the One"/"Love Him" are the "I Love You Always Forever"s of this album using a repetitively metronomic beat that transplants the listener to the "warm rains" and "lush hills of grass in the afternoons" environs that worked the listener on a purely suggestive hyponotic level as she did in her signature song.

"Blue Planet" is the title track that pairs her with mixer Pierre Marchand (Sarah McClachlan) that engages in its use of cold imagery that separates it from the other tracks; it is the darkest and most satisfying any pre-milleniun suggestion of doom could be: the song is very much a diary/stream of consciousness account of one world vision-purely intriguing, yet desperate.

"Heaven Sent You" should be the track that saves her from the dreaded sophomore slump. It is probably the most emotive and musically/lyrically challengingly fluid simple dance confection since Tara Kemp's "Hold You Tight" that combines that style with progressive repetive spoken word stylings that border on beat poetry takes on rap.

Buy this record, you will not be disappointed. This is a great record to wind down the day with as you are lulled to sleep.

"Lay Me Down" is a great testimony to the soothing effect Donna's ambient-lite music has on you. A must buy.