Detroit native
Justine Blazer sings the national anthem before sporting events in her hometown, and she has the voice of someone who sings the national anthems before sporting events in a rust belt city: pleasantly inoffensive, serviceable, but nothing special. Her debut album, on the other hand, is pretty uniformly terrible, reaching a particular nadir with a completely superfluous, overheated cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walking" that completely lacks the sly charm of
Nancy Sinatra's original. None of the rest of the album is quite that awful, but the songs are blandly forgettable would-be chart fodder, bereft of invention or soul. Basically, these songs sound like the songs that were rejected from an American Idol third-place runner-up's debut album, and the blandly efficient
Blazer doesn't have the vocal personality or star quality to put over the material despite its mediocrity. ~ Stewart Mason