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Self titled albums, lazy or creative?
I was sorting through my CD collection and I was looking at the amount of albums I have that are named after the artist, The Script, Scouting for Girls, Jordin Sparks, Jennifer Hudson to name a few. And I'm not sure whether the idea to name an album after your name, bands name just shows that you haven't bothered to think up a name or do peoples names sometimes fit very well as the name of the album?
Does the album name mean all that much to you? Are self-titled albums a sign of laziness? Your thoughts. |
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Not at all, if the music is excellent on the album who cares what they call it.
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Most self-titled albums are usually self-titled because it's a debut album and they're "introducing" themselves. But then again, maybe some artists ARE just lazy.
![]() i've also noticed alot of album titles have a track by the same name... Chasing Lights (The Saturdays) The Fame (Lady GaGa) Evacuate The Dancefloor (Cascada) etc |
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Battlefield (Jordin Sparks) aswell ^
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Well some albums tend to have theme
Self titled albums could be self titled because they are presenting themselves for the very first time and want their name remembered. I don't know, that's my theory. |
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I get self titled albums when an act is starting out like "Kasabian", "Queen" or "Yeah Yeah Yeahs". This introduces the act.
What I don't get is when a self titled album comes mid-career, like "The Libertines", "Aaliyah" or "The Beatles". When this happens is appears to be a bit pretentious, as if "yeah, look at our name, we're stars now". |
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Whitney has had several albums with her name in them.
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Yea, I think that it's a way of sort of saying 'this is us'. Although in some cases another name suits. I think Hot Fuss for The Killers debut was a perfect title and really suited the music.
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I get self titled albums when an act is starting out like "Kasabian", "Queen" or "Yeah Yeah Yeahs". This introduces the act.
What I don't get is when a self titled album comes mid-career, like "The Libertines", "Aaliyah" or "The Beatles". When this happens is appears to be a bit pretentious, as if "yeah, look at our name, we're stars now". the libertines self-titled their second album rather than their first because they felt that the songs on the second album sounded much more like what they believed the band's true sound was, than their debut. the beatles' "self-titled" album is mostly referred to as "the white album", so in a way that has diminished the use of the self-title |
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