In 2001, Jamie-Lynn Sigler was on top of world, starring as the sassy Meadow Soprano on HBO’s game-changing drama The Sopranos. In order to plan ahead for the show’s five-season run coming to a close, Sigler attempted to pursue her original passion for music and ended up releasing an album, called Here To Heaven. Listeners’ ears were never the same.
Released via German-owned label Edel America Records, Sigler’s debut project is a mishmash of brazen teeny pop, over-the-top ballads and Spanish versions of the aforementioned atrocities. The project was delivered during the Britney Spears era and is clearly geared toward her dramatic demographic, but comes across like a Spalding quality copy and wouldn’t even warrant an appearance in Adriana La Cerva’s club.
If you can listen to the cringe-worthy single “Cry Baby” long enough to hear Jamie-Lynn’s voice, you can tell her 19-year-old chops are rough around the edges, but not totally terrible. The problem is that she’s being set up to fail in every other regard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golt9BQUmcE
Her production is confused, stuck somewhere between “Genie In A Bottle” and a WWE theme song, coupled by lyrics that sound like they’re from a Facebook meme. The video features her pushing away a creepy guy in orange pants… who starts off the video by stabbing her with his tongue and groping her ass? The clip above is a microcosm of the whole album.
In 2007, Sigler herself fessed to the mess, telling Vegas magazine, “I was part of it — but I hated every moment of it. I was faking it the whole time.”
Ah well. Considering most of us were doing way worse things with our time at that age, we’ll give Miss Meadow a pass for this audible blunder. We won’t, however, forgive her for throwing rolls at Uncle Junior, during Jackie Jr.’s wake. Ugh. How classless.