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Review of Spin
(Q Magazine, March)
Ex-Savage Garden singer
Darren Hayes wants to be Michael Jackson. Who wouldn't?
If the name Darren Hayes sounds like that of a second division footballer rather than a
pop superstar, consider the fortunes of Savage Garden. They should have been playing
school disco's with a name like that, yet the Australian duo sold 20 million albums before
they split in 2000.
Solo, Hayes drops Savage Garden's soft rock pretensions for a slick blend of R&B and
pop.
In doing so, he's made a better Michael Jackson album than Jackson himself mustered with
Invincible.
I Miss You and Insatiable are models of elegant white-toast soul; Dirty and Heart Attack
have the zip of Jacko's lighter funk workouts. Images of Steve Martin in The Jerk
notwithstanding, a pretty resounding success.
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