Scarlett Johansson, a hollywood actress known for her gorgeous looks and big natural boobs just came out with an album full of Tom Waits covers. I finally got around to listening to this. Nice and relaxing. I enjoyed Scarlett’s unique vocals. While she gets a lot of negative critique from music listeners and profesional music critics of this album, I’ll have to send this album to a positive direction and say this is actually a real good one. The way I want to hear music is something that needs to be haunting, and something different. Well this album is it. It is haunting and something different.

The reason I enjoy Scarlett’s singing so much is because, her vocals doesn’t really sound like a real female singin voice. It’s supposed to add to the music, and that’s what Scarlett did with her vocals. She’s not worried about trying to sing like Whitney Houston, Barbara Streisand or Celine Dion, she’s singing her own way, giving her vocals to what the song needs. If she wanted to sing like Celine Dion, she would, but that is not needed on this album, especially with this being an album dedicated to Tom Waits.

Everyone is trashing her vocals on one song they heard which is “Falling Down”, the one she duets with David Bowie. But you can’t judge her singing and album just on one song you heard. If you actually listened to the whole album, you may find yourself enjoying it. As for the music being performed by instruments, there’s a lot of things going on in there, a lot of instruments being played. There are mixes of synthesizers, organs, guitars, various unique international instruments you get from other countries, etc.

I just laugh when everyone says she sucks even by listening to just one “song” when they really haven’t heard anything by hers yet. I really enjoyed “Anywhere I Lay My Head”, it’s a fine album. I feel that people diss Scarlett’s music because she ‘s a movie star turned musician like all the other movie stars turned musicians that failed in music. You can’t compare her to the other movie stars turned musicians because she is way different than them. People don’t like it because her music is mellow and slow, her versions of Tom Waits songs sounds nothing like Tom Waits. People would rather hear more upbeat and fast pop songs that you hear in mainstream radio than stuff like Scarlett’s music. Movie stars turned musicians will never get successful in their music because the fact is, their fans like the actors for the films they make, they don’t really care about the music.

Movie stars turned musicians get made fun of in the industry and it’s pretty sad. If you say to these movie stars turned musicians, “Why did you become an actor first, then musician later?”, they’ll respond back with something like, “We’ve always been a musician our whole life, we just wanted to take acting seriously first”. But I’m willing to bet you, these movie stars turned musicians wanted to become famous at music but aren’t able to so they used their movie careers to get record deals. I think that’s a good and smart way to get a record deal by doing movies first.

Like her or not, Scarlett is very talented. More talented than all the other movie stars turned musicians in the past. She has something going good and I hope she continues to make more albums. I hope her next one will be original songs she writes herself.

Score for Scarlett Johansson’s “Anywhere I Lay My Head” = *** (3 stars as in good)

Kev