The L Word: The Second Season Sessions

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

"0" stars should be an option. , 2006-04-25
EZ girls' score is profoundly awful. br /The music from the first season was amazing and it introduced me to a lot of great new artists (Kinnie Starr and Fiest are among the best). So what happened? Where did all the talent go? The music has become laughable... br /The saving grace from the second season is the commentary on the "lez boat" episode that was done by the actresses who play Shane, Dana and Alice. br /During the theme song, Leisha sings "laughing, crying, breathing, f**king, make this song stop really sucking." br /Ilene Chaiken and Betty should really listen to her. br /When the actors are tearing apart the music, you know it's gotta be bad...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Simply horrible, 2006-01-09
The music is simply awful. I enjoyed the CD from the first season (as well as the opening digital theme) and am still reeling from the granola chomping, politically correct, old fashioned and weird theme song from Season 2. NOT hot, NOT cool, NOT fun to listen to. Elizabeth Ziff's negative influence has really hung a job on the musical score- I am left pondering WHY Showtime and Ilene Chaiken have let her run wild with this glob of amateurish and self indulgent effort.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

If only the music was good, 2005-12-18
Such a great show, if only the second season had music to match.

13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

I had my doubts..., 2005-06-05
Like many, my original reaction to the new theme song and the radically different score wasn't a positive one at first. As a matter of fact, by the end of the season and up until I got the CD, I was still quite sceptical about it. I was a fool. br / br /I think the reason people have reacted so strongly to ezgirl's unique compositions is exactly that, the fact that they are unique. I love movie and tv scores but quite often, they all resemble each other. ezgirl has been bold enough to do things a little bit differently, much in the same way that "the L word" is different than other shows, and it really works. The theme song, which is actually very catchy, is predominant here with many different versions of it (including the very authentic sounding Klezmer version in Yiddish and the sexy Spanish and French versions - all of which sound very different). ezgirl has combined live instruments (something quite unusual in tv scoring) and funky synthetic sounds as well as samples from the show, her own voice and breath, and there are some surprising contributions by accomplished musicians in their own right (including Jane Siberry). br / br /The originality of this project shows just how much ezgirl has put her heart and soul in this to produce a truly artistic take on television scoring. If I had only one wish, it would be that Ilene Chaiken had recruited her from the start of the show.

23 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

Big fan of the show, this "music" ruins it, 2005-05-27
This is an excellent TV show that was hijacked this season by ezgirl (a.k.a. one of the hairy members of BETTY). This cd is her attempt to make creative background music, but really it is just endless ridiculous versions of the awful new theme song of the show. The theme song is incredibly cheesy, and so are the subsequent versions of it. The five star reviews here are probably left by ezgirl, since she is so proud of herself.