More Power To Britney's Sis

Don't expect to hear the same sort of slick pop or dance stylings springing from the lips of Britney Spears' sister Jamie Lynn. She's opted to travel the country music trail. Looking at the video for "How Could I Want More?" I have to giggle a bit when Jamie sings because the face is very much in the Britney mold so it's forgivable I would think for me to half expect "Oops!...I Did It Again" or "Toxic" to push forth. The woman does come from Kentwood, Louisiana, which makes her choice of genre easy to fathom. The voice is pleasingly delicate and, for a woman merely 22 years old, it's got a worldly wise sensibility to back it up. The lyrics come complete with the drama you've come to expect from her more famous sister. There's the usual "Maybe I should let the poor man go, like a caged bird that needs to fly." The man sounds delicious. He treats her like a princess. He hangs on every word she says. Bonus points if she's a boring conversationalist. The problem she's having is she still seems to want more. In other words, if he sounds too good to be true, he probably is.The arrangements for the song are admirably dialed down. All it takes to light this fire is a delicately strummed acoustic guitar and Jamie Lynn's honky tonk poetry. She suspects there could be more fire and feeling than what he's letting her take a peek at. I've always been convinced that, at the heart of country music there's this simplicity of sentiment, a lack of ladling on so much bullshit that there's more show than show me. At this stage of the game I have to say that Jamie Lynn's done the right thing be giving her audience, potential and established, a little taste of what she can bring to the table in more reliable quantities on down the line. The love him but am sorely tempted to leave him dynamic is well played in Jamie Lynn's hands. There's no lack of youthful vivacity either. If you like precious snapshots of life you can hardly top "lying in the green grass underneath the blue sky". Simple pleasure winning the day. Thumbs up to Jamie Lynn, whether her management team decided for her or if she consciously voted that way, for not deciding for the easy string of hits route big sis Britney raked in the dough with. It gives us all a chance to watch her career blossom on her own terms. We won't be dealing with the saga of the dueling Spears pop tarts. Jamie Lynn's her own woman. No problem with that whatsoever. "How Could I Want More?" demonstrates Jamie Lynn is more than just Britney's sister. She's a performer whose star appears poised to rise.