"Melicious" is the title of the second album by singer Melissa Lefton. On many promotional copies it was simply titled "Melissa Lefton". The album was due for release in September, 2001 on Jive Records but that release was suspended indefinitely. It was produced by The Matrix.
The album featured well-produced pop songs that, when given a closer listen, were filled with bitterness, anger and social commentary. The song "Radio Rainbow" addressed da...
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"Melicious" is the title of the second album by singer Melissa Lefton. On many promotional copies it was simply titled "Melissa Lefton". The album was due for release in September, 2001 on Jive Records but that release was suspended indefinitely. It was produced by The Matrix.
The album featured well-produced pop songs that, when given a closer listen, were filled with bitterness, anger and social commentary. The song "Radio Rainbow" addressed date rape; "Sunnyville" was a song about occultism. The song "My Hit Song" was an ironic ditty imploring the listener to make the song itself a hit.
Lefton's image was tooled intentionally to mime that of other successful young pop stars like Britney Spears, when in fact Lefton is nearly thirty years old. This led to comparisons to Cyndi Lauper, who also wrote socially conscious pop songs geared toward a young audience when she was in her thirties.
As evidence of what was intended to be a heavily promoted project, the only songs commercially...
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