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Let's Be Us Again | 
| Artist: Lonestar
Label: Bna Entertainment
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 61964
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 59751
UPC: 828765975124
EAN: 0828765975124
ASIN: B00020W0F6
Release Date: May 25, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | County Fair | | • | Class Reunion (That Used to Be Us) | | • | Let's Be Us Again | | • | That Gets Me | | • | Women Rule the World | | • | What I Miss the Most | | • | Let Them Be Little | | • | T. G. I. F. | | • | Summertime | | • | Now | | • | Mr. Mom | | • | From There to Here - Lonestar, Randy Owen | | • | Somebody's Someone |
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Lonestar has sold the bulk of their 8 million albums on the strength of two things: lead singer Richie McDonald's straight-to-the-heart, emotive vocals, and crossover songs that express the Hallmark sentiments of tongue-tied Romeos and Wal-Mart dads. The premier target of these valentines is the stay-at-home mom who needs only one thing more than sleep, and that's serious romance and appreciation--something more than flowers on Mother's Day and a once-a-month restaurant dinner with the kids in tow. Let's Be Us Again, which again balances power guitar and pedal steel in the quest for radio airplay, hits that button time and again. The title song doesn't match up to the anthemic pop ballad "Amazed," but it does strike an emotional chord. McDonald and company strive mightily to put the intimacy back into long-term relationships with "That Gets Me," "What I Miss the Most," and "Summertime." Where the album disappoints is in its over-the-top paeans to family, first in the insufferable "Let Them Be Little," then in the nice but unconvincing "Women Rule the World," and finally in the trite "Mr. Mom." It's times like these that Lonestar seems most guilty of pandering, if not treacle. Buyer beware: sugar buzz ahead. --Alanna Nash
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Already There (at the top of my list that is) September 21, 2004
CountryLover188 (Laurel, Maryland United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
this cd rocks. i love lonestar becausse they are sensitive to women and understand them unlike some artists -cough- -cough- toby keith. once again i love this cd and theres not much more to say. my favorite songs are lets be us again, women rule the world, mr mom, and a lot of other tracks.
 Their best ever album July 20, 2004
r.w.kitchener
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
What a great album this is! My favourite is T.G.I.F. plus all the other tracks! They just seem to get better with each album they do!
Love These Guys November 12, 2005
Steven Resnick (Portland, OR)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't really listen to country music but Lonestar is one of the bands or country artists that I will listen too. They're very easy to listen too they aren't full of that twang when they sing and I enjoy most of their songs. Let's Be Us Again is the best song on the CD because during that time I had just gotten out of a long relationship and that song spoke to me even though we will never be together again it's worth listening too. Cause that song gives you hope that someday maybe you could be together again. I do also enjoy Lonestar over Rascall Flatts because well his voice sounds way better and not as high as the lead singer of Rascall Flatts.
Lonestar - "Gets Me Everytime" May 27, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd heard some of the songs before this album came out. That just made me want it even more. I went to one of their concerts and there they played "Let's Be Us Again" for only the second time to a concert crowd. I was hooked from the beginning. They quickly outdid themselves with their emotional song "Let Them Be Little." The crowd was about brought to tears. It's so nice to see that these men value their families so highly. Children do try to grow up too fast and this song is a reminder to "let them be little 'cause they're only that way for a while." They also show their versility through the songs upbeat "County Fair", "Class Reunion (That Used To Be Us)", and one of my personal favorites "T.G.I.F." because we can all relate to waiting for Friday to just get here. The final song, "Somebody's Someone" is a reminder that each soldier is important to someone, somehow. I'm looking forward to future Lonestar albums! Go out and buy this album, it's well worth it! Thanks Richie, Michael, Dean, and Keech for another great album!
 Lonestar Needs to be "Us" Again October 1, 2004
T. Yap (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Prime Cuts: Let's Be Us Again, What I Miss the Most, From There to Here
Back in the late 90s, Lonestar enjoyed a career makeover. Divorcing itself from its Texan honky tonk spit and sawdust roots, they have indulged in anthemic balladry and Eagles-influenced country rockers. Gone are the pressed starched shirts, Stetson hats and cowboy boots, the Lonestar of today (as pictured on the album sleeve) wears designer jeans and leather jackets, looking more like an over grown boy band. Such a move certainly paid off handsomely as Lonestar has anchored itself firmly as country radio's darling.
"Let's Be Us Again" continues Lonestar's winning streak with the standard over-the-top power ballads and popish rockers. I have no qualms with artists trying to placate the support of radio; after all without airplay, it's commercial suicide for any artist. But has Lonestar gone too far? So far that "Let's Be Us Again" becomes a marketing ploy rather than an artistic expression of the group's ingenuity.
How sincere are these guys on the loquacious "Mr. Mom" and the guitar driven rocker "Women Rule the World"? Are lines such as "They're so sexy when they're mamas," "In all shapes and sizes they make my temperature rise" really from the heart? Or are they pretentiously written so as to tickle the fancy of country music's largely female audience? Trace Adkins has done it with the extremely degrading and insulting "Hot Mama," is Lonestar following suit?
The rest of the album doesn't get better. Most of the songs deal with themes that are far too safe within country music's canon. The titles say it all: "County Fair," "T.G.I.F.," "Summertime," and "Class Reunion." Following in the shadow of their mega smash hit "Amazed," most of the ballads here are powerhouse performance with Richie McDonald trying to prove that he could reach and sustain the high notes, rather than trying to express the emotions of the songs. With that said, the romantic title cut "Let's Be Us Again," the melancholic "What I Miss the Most" and the inspirational "From There to Here" are still ingratiating.
Like many male bands and artists, Lonestar's eagerness for success has made "Let's Be Us Again" pretty pretentious. Maybe Lonestar should take their own advice and "let's be us again." They need to re-discover their own identity and chose songs that express that identity, rather than fashion itself into an over grown boy band singing mawkish material.
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