![]() Sparkle may be a bit melodramatic in its rise, fall, and rise story of our heroine, but on the whole it's an entertaining film filled with great musical numbers. Sparkle and Stix reunite, and with Emma's blessing pursues her dreams with a one-woman show. In a confrontation between Satin and the sisters one inadvertently kills him, but Sister takes the fall. Dee is pursuing her own doctor dreams, but it's Sister that truly falls apart. Everyone soon starts heading their own ways: Stix, determined to be the next Berry Gordy, asks Sparkle to marry him but she won't leave Emma. On the cusp of a major record deal, Sister's sorry state kills that. Over everyone's loud objection Sister hooks up with Satin, who quickly devolves from a sweet guy to a drunk abuser, one who introduces cocaine to his girl. She quickly rejects Stix's cousin, the grounded and working-class Levi (Omari Hardwick) for the wealthy and successful comic Satin Struthers (Mike Epps), whose comedy appears to be based on ridiculing his people for the laughter of the white population. With success, Sparkle and Stix's relationship grows, but so does Sister's slow slide. Sister and Her Sisters begin to rise in popularity, all the while being able to keep most of their success secret from their church-going mother, Emma (WHITNEY!). Girl groups in Detroit are all the rage, so Sparkle and Sister rope in Dolores, better known as Dee (Tika Sumpter) a girl who harbors no ambitions to be a singer but instead to be a doctor and who can be counted to speak her mind. While he likes Sister, he finds in Sparkle someone to really care about. Sister loves the attention and the men, and soon their combined talents attracts the attention of ambitious manager Stix (Derek Luke). ![]() What she doesn't have is confidence among other things, so she turns to her more glamorous older sister Tammy, who is generally referred to as Sister (Carmen Ejogo) to sing Sparkle's songs in a more sultry manner than the good church-going sister can. Sparkle (Jordin Sparks.a name not tinged with irony) is a shy girl who writes songs and has a good voice. The remake of the 1976 Joel Schumacher keeps to the spirit of the original while altering things to showcase the actors and singers, but the story pretty much stays the same. However, Sparkle is less a cautionary tale than a big, lavish show with an interesting story, some good performances and wonderful music. ![]() It is tempting, and far too easy, to see that WHITNEY! was more the character of Sister than anything else: a woman with beauty, talent, and ambition that found herself married to the worst kind of man, sped her way into drugs and ultimately paid a price for her fall. However, this was not meant to be, as Whitney Houston self-destructed before Sparkle was released. Sparkle might have been WHITNEY's! comeback, and it would have shown that WHITNEY! had grown and matured as an actress. Whereas Alun Williams of gives the album 4.A Supernova Is Nothing More Than A Dying Star. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 47, based on 8 reviews. Songs from the Sparkle Lounge received mixed reviews. 5 on the Billboard 200, selling about 55,000 copies in its first week of release. On 25 April 2008, Def Leppard's record label opened a website with teasers of every song on the album. The title of one of the songs in the tracklist, "Give It Away," was changed to "Gotta Let It Go." Joe Elliott has stated at the band's official site that the concept of this album is that it sounds more like "early 70's AC/DC" and much like Led Zeppelin's song "Rock and Roll". The album's first single, "Nine Lives" features country singer Tim McGraw. Members of the band have described the tracks from the album as written in the style of Hysteria, with the production style of High 'n' Dry. "It was a mini (drum) kit, mini amps, a tape recorder and sparkly lights." Elliott also stated that they would not be performing any previews of the songs, as they did not want them appearing on websites such as YouTube prior to the release of the album. In an interview with, Joe Elliott stated that the album title is a reference to a backstage area at shows where the band would work on new material. However, Joe Elliott has stated that the band and Mutt Lange still plan to work on a few songs together in the future. They also mentioned the possibility of previous Def Leppard album producer Mutt Lange being involved with a few songs for the album, but in the end this collaboration did not turn out to be possible due to scheduling conflicts. In an Interview on Rockline radio, two band members, Joe Elliott and Vivian Campbell stated that the title of their latest studio album would be Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, saying that "Until someone comes up with a better name this will be the final title upon release".
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