Superstar
Two years after her breakthrough album *Loner*—a witty, woozy, and very personal New Wave odyssey—Rose returns with an appropriately glossy concept album about fame and misfortune. Over the course of *Superstar*’s 11 tracks, she follows a fictitious striver who dreams of big-screen stardom, for all the wrong reasons. “I’m moving to LA/A weekend in Paris/I’m gonna bask in fame/Fiji in a banana hammock,” Rose sings on “Got to Go My Own Way,” one of the album’s several bright-eyed vision-board boasts. They’re part of a doomed Hollywood journey Rose narrates through both gorgeously slow-burning anthems (“Nothing’s Impossible”) and synth-afflicted dance-floor jams (“Feel the Way I Want”). *Superstar* may not have the happiest of endings, but it’s alluring enough to make you hold out hope for a sequel.
The New York songwriter’s fourth album sacrifices spontaneity for the sake of a character-driven concept, but her sense of humor remains as strong as ever.
Fate can't stand in the way of superstardom on this epic second outing
Let's hope that Rose keeps taking us on colorful tours of her psyche for years to come.
Her ascent to superstardom isn’t impossible - it just might take a little longer than planned.
Abandoning any lingering Americana affectations -- a sound that still bubbled to the surface on Loner, the 2018 album that finally brought her to a wider audience -- singer/songwriter Caroline Rose crafts a sly, steely concept album with 2020's Superstar.
Caroline Rose's Superstar is a sketch show starring insecurity, unasked questions and the ego we could crash into a storefront and still den...
In 2020, Caroline Rose is shooting for superstardom. Rose started in the field of earnest Americana but cultivated a swaggering indie pop sound on 2018's LONER.
The New York songwriter is still unable to write a bad melody, but some of the songs on Superstar don't hit home as hard as they could
In terms of color-coded personality profiles, a red is someone who thinks logically instead of emotionally.