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Debbie Gibson
Released 1989

Shades of the Past
04:52
98 plays

Lost in Your Eyes
03:34
355 plays

Electric Youth
04:55
225 plays

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songs

- 1
- Who Loves Ya Baby?
- 04:00
- 173 plays

- 2
- Lost in Your Eyes
- 03:34
- 355 plays

- 3
- Love in Disguise
- 04:17
- 156 plays

- 4
- Helplessly in Love
- 04:10
- 144 plays

- 5
- Silence Speaks (A Thousand Words)
- 03:37
- 149 plays

- 6
- Should've Been the One
- 05:07
- 178 plays

- 7
- Electric Youth
- 04:55
- 225 plays

- 8
- No More Rhyme
- 04:13
- 147 plays

- 9
- Over the Wall
- 03:58
- 133 plays

- 10
- We Could Be Together
- 05:33
- 207 plays

- 11
- Shades of the Past
- 04:52
- 98 plays

- 12
- We Could Be Together [Camfire Mix][*]
- 05:33
- 147 plays

- 13
- No More Rhyme [Acoustic Mix][*]
- 04:12
- 150 plays

album review

Following up her enormously popular debut, Out of the Blue, Debbie Gibson sought to grow from the teen fan base she had established, while not alienating those who made her a household name. The result is slickly produced teen pop, like her debut, but it's not as squeaky clean or as compulsively likable. That is not to say it's a bad album. "Lost in Your Eyes" is a pretty ballad that showcases her songwriting skills, her clear voice, and her talent on the piano. "Electric Youth" is a bouncy, frenetic song that is ridiculously sing-alongable, but at the same it is time hard to really identify with it unless you're 12 (or at least young at heart). "We Could Be Together," in which she basically tells her friends and family to go fly a kite, is practically anthemic in its joy at taking a risk on love: "I'll take this chance/I'll make this choice/I'll give up my security/for just the possibility/that we could be together/for a while." It's teen pop at its best: it makes you feel young, it makes you want to sing, it makes you want to fall in love. "Silence Speaks (A Thousand Words)" is a beautiful ballad about lack of communication that is vastly different from any of her other work, with a flute solo and lyrics that many adult songwriters can't nail. The same can be said for "No More Rhyme," a minor hit about a relationship's first hurdle. Gibson really exercised her writing chops on those songs, but much of the rest the album is only passable filler; "Who Loves Ya Baby?," "Helplessly in Love," and "Over the Wall" do little more than give her voice a reason to shine, while "Shades of the Past" is excruciatingly grating. ~ Bryan Buss, All Music Guide