Review of Spin
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Ex-Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes wants to be Michael Jackson. Who wouldn't?
If the name Darren Hayes sounds like that of a second division footballer rather than a pop superstar, consider the fortunes of Savage Garden. They should have been playing school disco's with a name like that, yet the Australian duo sold 20 million albums before they split in 2000. Solo, Hayes drops Savage Garden's soft rock pretensions for a slick blend of R&B and pop. In doing so, he's made a better Michael Jackson album than Jackson himself mustered with Invincible. I Miss You and Insatiable are models of elegant white-toast soul; Dirty and Heart Attack have the zip of Jacko's lighter funk workouts. Images of Steve Martin in The Jerk notwithstanding, a pretty resounding success. |