Beware of all ventrues that require new clothes - or, it should be said, new names. The former Sister Soleil, best known for her adventurous 1998 industrial-pop fusion album Soulariuam, might have earned the benefit of the doubt regarding her recent name switch to Stella Soleil. That is, if Dirty Little Secret were not such a blatant grab at exploding market for high-end teen-femme pop. Soleil decisively casts off her past by opening the new CD with "Kiss Kiss," a lunge at pop's jugular with the radio-ready stutter-step rhythm and a faux-Turkish string motif. It's precisely the sort of hokey exoticism that can clean up at radio. Soleil once rubbed shoulders with serious customers like Ministry and Trent Reznor. Fans who have follwed her ac can't be blamed for wondering what happened. - David Thigpen.
source: July 5, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone.
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