Sheena Easton Album: “My Cherie”

This is Sheena's best album since 1984's "A Private Heaven." It is a straight pop album with a nice mix of light dance tunes along with some searing ballads, which are the strong point of this CD. The best tune in this package is "Till Death Do Us Part." This torch song about an ending relationship is mixed with a grove provided by producer and arranger Narada Michael, best known for his work with Whitney Houston. Other highlights include the David Foster track "You've Learned to Live Without Me" and "Dance Away the Blues." "All I ask of You" provides a lighter more positive mood to this album. Sheena was going for a straight pop album here, and she hits the mark.

This has to be one of Sheena's finest CD'S ever produced....

A very personal album that shows where Sheena was in her life at that time.....i love her self-penned TILL DEATH DO US PART and wish at the time it had been released worldwide as a single...

i also adore the whole album...worth a buy!

Lovely, sweet and immaculately produced pop album.

SHEENA EASTON at her best form, reuniting with Narada M. Walden and many other songwriter/producer like David Foster and Diane Warren.

Listen to "You've Learned To Live Without Me" and you'll know why Sheena is such an acclaimed singer. The lyric haunts too.

Sheena has done well!

Sheena Easton's fourth(and last)album for MCA finds her channeling her inner adult contemporary muse throughout much of the project, with the results often middling to average. The title cut sounded dated, even when released in '95, and a couple of the other tracks have that same dated feel('Too Much In Love' being a chief offender). The ballads, though immaculately produced, reveal something that reared its head on WHAT COMES NATURALLY--Easton's voice sounds over-produced, almost mechanical in some instances, and lacks the fully-bodied sound that marked her as one of the eighties best pop singers. She still sounds better than alot of the disco dollies that infiltrated airwaves around the same time, but overall this is one of her slighter projects.

My Cherie is not about vocal pyrotechnics and acrobatics. I mean Easton had done it before - remember You Could Have Been With Me and power ballad Hard To Say It's Over? On this CD, she gives a very understated and restrained treatment to the songs.

The title track's middle-of-the-road beat reminded me of her first hit Morning Train while upbeat Too Much In Love practically had me bursting with joy. Amid the mid tempo stuff, there are a couple of beautiful ballads such as Flower In The Rain, You've Learned To Live Without Me and Dance Away The Blues.

Sheena never looked more angelic and the design is filled with cherubs and roses.

My Cherie is a testament to musical maturity and to be a great singer - sometimes less is more.