Mean to Me

Mean to Me can refer to:

Bring You Back

Bring You Back is the debut studio album by American country music artist Brett Eldredge. It was released on August 6, 2013 by Atlantic Nashville. The album includes the singles "Raymond", "Don't Ya", "Beat of the Music" and "Mean to Me". "Don't Ya", "Beat of the Music" and "Mean to Me" reached Number One on the Country Airplay chart. The album has gained critical acclaim by music critics.

Songs

Brett Eldredge stated that the last song "Go On Without Me" was written in memoriam about Lindsay Nicole Walleman, the Manager of Midwest/Northeast Promotions, W.A.R. Team at Warner Music Nashville, after she died of cancer in 2013. In addition, Eldredge noted that Walleman was "'one of the people who were fighting for me to get on the radio'", and he told that "'When the label heard this song, they agreed that we were finishing the album with it.'"

Critical reception

Bring You Back garnered critical acclaim from the six music critics to review the album. At Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine highlighted that the release is "crisp, chipper, and eager to please, an album that cheerfully checks off every box on contemporary country radio." In addition, Erlewine noted that "everything" contained on the effort "is shiny, happy country-pop -- even the ballads feel bright -- but that's the appeal of Eldredge and his debut: everybody involved worked hard to deliver a piece of gleaming modern country product, and it's hard to resist all that impeccable craft." Giving it a "B+", Bob Paxman of Country Weekly described Eldredge's voice as "soulful", comparing his delivery on "Waited Too Long" and the title track favorably to Travis Tritt. He wrote that some of the songs "travel down the often-trod pavement of small-town odes[…]But never do they sound contrived or overly sentimental". However, he called "On and On" and "Beat of the Music" "ordinary".

Mean to Me (1929 song)

"Mean to Me" is a popular song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Roy Turk, published in 1929. The song is a popular standard, recorded by many artists.

Recordings

The first singer to record this song was Annette Hanshaw in 1929.

Ruth Etting recorded the song in 1929.

Billie Holiday recorded her version in 1937 with Lester Young and Teddy Wilson.

In 1946, Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich recorded the song, which was released on the album The Lester Young Trio No. 2.

Frank Sinatra recorded the song in 1947.

Sarah Vaughan recorded the song for her album Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi (1950) and EP Hot Jazz (1953)

Doris Day recorded a version for the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me.

Julie London recorded the song for her album Lonely Girl (1956).

Dean Martin recorded the song in 1960 with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra for the album This Time I'm Swingin'!.

Betty Carter recorded the song in August 1960, released on her album The Modern Sound of Betty Carter.

Ella Fitzgerald included the song on her 1962 Verve release Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson, recorded with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra; the album won a Grammy Award in 1963. Fitzgerald recorded a new version in 1975, together with pianist Oscar Peterson on the album Ella and Oscar (Pablo Records).

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rock scene.

Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" bands to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s. Beginning life as the Guildford Stranglers on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, they originally built a following within the mid-1970s pub rock scene. While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from new wave, art rock and gothic rock through the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

They had major mainstream success with their single "Golden Brown". Their other hits include "No More Heroes", "Peaches", "Always the Sun" and "Skin Deep".

The Stranglers (album)

The Stranglers is a compilation album by The Stranglers.

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