Melissa Etheridge has been in the news lately, as she split with her longtime partner Tammy Etheridge (formerly Tammy Lynn Michaels) and also released a new record – Fearless Love. On the musical front, not much has changed for Melissa according to Jeff Giles:
Seventeen years later, Etheridge isn’t quite the radio mainstay she once was, but she’s still doing exactly what she’s always done – to a fault, in fact. The last decade has seen her release a pair of live albums, a Christmas album, and a greatest hits collection, in addition to four albums of new material – and Fearless Love, her latest, suggests it might be time for a vacation. It’s certainly a step back from 2007’s The Awakening, which found her using those reach-for-the-sky choruses in service of a spiritual, autobiographical song cycle; in contrast, Fearless Love comes loaded for bear with a dozen tracks of platitudes as corny as its title.
