M.Y.O.B

Why Debbie Gibson is a legend? Maybe because she still in 2014 is.only person to have sung and.performed and was the youngest star to have done all that and went to #1! Maybe because the girl can....SING!!! Maybe because.M.Y.O.B is.one.of her greatest cds.This girl voice and.all the beats on this cd is just amazing.The way she carries her tone and the.meaning to the songs.And if people truly tended to their own affairs and stopped meddking in others...wow every celebrity would rejoice! Debbie this cd rocks love ya!

Favorite tracks from this album1. M.Y.O.B.- love the kids on this2. M.Y.O.B (REMIX)- great dance track3. What You Want- Love the dance track4. The One- Best Ballad on this album!5. Jaded- A great song for people who have been rejected by love or the players game.6. Your Secret- Interesting coming from America's little darling of the 80's! She grew up and sings of being the other woman! I think it works well as the second track.

Great album. It did not take so long before I received it

This album is qyite intense for those used to the mellow Debbie but her sounds are good and music is changing.

everything Debbie Gibson sings is awesome

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it's like there are two different deborahs. the anything is possible to body mind soul to myob deborah, and the "think with your heart" to "deborah" (or moonchild)" to "colored lights" deborah...the 2 collide on this cd.she has writers come in to work with her on this effort. i can't say that she's running from her past... it's admirable. MYOB is a perfect connection to her older self, and newer self."M.Y.O.B."the song is a celebration of deborah. it's risky. it's good. it is elemental of every stage in her career, and it's fun. i love the remix at the end of the album with the "work it out." rap included. the song kicks. 'nuff said."YOUR SECRET"not my favorite deborah song. i like her for different things, but i can't say it's a bad song. it still jams. i wonder if it's her call out to all of us, saying... hey, i know you're out there; speak up for me!!"WHAT YOU WANT"oooh. perfection, yet again. this is a killer song. it deserved a place on modern radio. it's energy is great. you'll dance your butt off to this one, and feel good about yourself doing so. she's fun."DOWN THAT ROAD"i love this sound from her, and the songwriting is incredible. reminisent of "I Can't" from "Deborah" (or "Moonchild"). i'd like to see the 2 on an album next to one another holding hands... it flows along just above land."THE ONE"the line "if i could i would remember to forget you." makes me think of another line "and remember to forget" from "Any Other Man" that shows up on her "Memory Lane Vol I" album. To me, "Any Other Man" is the superior song by far!! and so it shadows over "the one" for me, and i would've rather seen it here in it's place."WISHING YOU WERE HERE"this is maybe my favorite deborah song ever. her "mmm hmm" is just exactly what i want from her. her long island soul. i know she can hang, and here she does. she's tough, and she knows how it goes.when the album first came out, and i of course could not find it anywhere. i downloaded a remix of this song that was listed on the then napster prog called "Ybor Mix." because i lived in Tampa, Florida at the time, i couldn't resist, and that remix blows the hell out of this version. if it's a valid remix or not, it's amazing. if you can find it, you should. it's intense. that remix should've been the lead off single for this album!! the clubs would've been all over that... but then it's deborah, so... rules just somehow don't apply."WHAT PART OF NO"okay, she already did, "when i say no" so... it's sorta repeating the point, right? her voice though, is steller here, and this is the better of the two "I SAD NO" songs. like i said, she can hang. she comes out with this soul sound that just blows me away."IN BLUE"why does this song remind me of the "anything is possible" album? i guess deborah and the color blue have a long history. she sounds wonderful here. a very good song. "i guess he likes me in blue." aww."JADED"it's strange that when i think about it, this is probably my 2nd favorite song on the album after "wishing you were here." she knows she can sing this song, and she does, without apology. very cool song."KNOCK THREE TIMES"ok.... i kinda don't get it. but it really rocks, and is so much fun. where did this come from???!!!! speaking of florida, this reminds me of my time there, big time.summer, palm trees, and water =) love it. love it."MYOB DANCE MIX"we covered this. hott!"WISHING YOU WERE HERE (YBOR MIX)"we covered this too. this is my favorite of all her stuff. it's so full of life. [...]

M.Y.O.B. is a mediocre, run-of-the-mill effort. Deborah Gibson is a talented songwriter, yet she only wrote a few of the songs on this CD. She's also a talented producer, but her production talents were virtually unused on this disc. The result is a set of 11 songs that could have been put together by any of the several dozen currently-popular female pop artists of no particular distinction.I imagine Ms. Gibson went this route because her last two albums - "Deborah" and "Think With Your Heart" - sold so poorly. She probably reasoned that making her album more like everyone else's would help. But that's not a very artistic way of thinking. An artist creates because she must, not because it is a way of making money. Since Ms. Gibson didn't create most of the stuff on this disc - merely entering the studio to sing her part, then go back to her Broadway career - it can't fairly be called art. At least, not *her* art.The most heartbreaking thing about it is that she tried this once before and it did her no good. After her first two albums went triple-platinum, she took a more active hand in the third and it only went gold. Learning the wrong lesson from that, she then took a more hands-off approach to her fourth album, "Mind Body Soul" and was ridiculed for sounding very much like Paula Abdul (the standard issue pop diva of the day). The album failed miserably.Then she took back control of her fifth album, "Think With Your Heart," which also failed commercially, due largely to the fact that it had no big-label backing in the increasingly inbred and corporatized music industry. Yet, this album was truly her artistic expression, far more than any of her albums before or since. And it shows. While it isn't quite on the level of "Pet Sounds" or "Sgt. Pepper's" it definitely ranks on the very next lower rung on the ladder of beautiful artistic expression using the pop music medium.After "Think With Your Heart" failed to garner her the commercial success she'd enjoyed with her first two, more pop-oriented albums, she released the "Deborah" disc, which was mostly written and produced by her. Sound-wise, it's somewhere between the sweetness of "Think With Your Heart" and the standard-issue 90's pop of "Mind Body Soul". Sales-wise, this disc did better -- largely due to better marketing. But I think Ms. Gibson leared the wrong lesson, thinking that it sold better because the songs were more like what everyone else was making.And now, she's come out with M.Y.O.B., an album that is as cold and heartless attempt at commercial success as anything by Britney Spears, and just as lacking in artistic grace and personal integrity.Which is not to say the album isn't listenable. It is, after all, pop music. It's as bland and inoffensive as can be, and she hired some nice talent to make sure it sounds smooth and practiced.But in the end, it's not art. It's a purely cynical attempt at generating sales figures, and is, therefore, a waste of time and energy - both on the part of those who generated the pablum-filled disc, and on the part of listeners.Hopefully, Deborah will use more of her considerable talent on her next album. Perhaps she'll return to creating art instead of product. Until then, I'll continue listening to the great discs she created earlier in her career.