| Breakthrough [Deluxe Edition] | ![Breakthrough [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IxJCsSGwL._SL160_.jpg) | Artist: Colbie Caillat
Label: Universal
Category: Digital Music Album
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 713
Genre: pop-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 4234 Minutes
Publication Date: August 25, 2009
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 Love this cd! July 6, 2010
michelle
I play this cd over and over again in my car. I love it. The music, the lyrics, all of it.
 Not quite a breakthrough, but she certainly has what it takes to get there... April 21, 2010
Andrew Ellington (I'm kind of everywhere)
I absolutely adore Colbie Caillat. Her debut album `Coco' has frequent rotation on my car stereo, and her sophomore album `Breakthrough' is nearly just as good. In fact, the only complaint I have here is that the album is a tad long. When you consider the style of music that Colbie crafts, it is best served in small doses. In those doses you can really appreciate her style and skill. When you drag the album out seventeen tracks then you run the risk of becoming rather repetitious. Some of the tracks tend to run together and this takes the albums appeal down a notch.
I like all of these songs, and I downright love quite a few of them, but I would have preened a tad.
I probably would have started with `Stay With Me' and `Breakin at the Cracks'. They are very sleepy numbers that are soon forgotten. They don't sound bad, but they lack any real spark. They can come across as almost lazy. Speaking of lazy, `Never Let You Go' and `Don't Hold Me Down' seem that way as well. There really isn't much thought there. They are generic and accessible and nicely crafted yet highly forgettable and uninteresting songs.
`Runnin Around' is bouncy and fun and very `surfer girl', which is why I love Colbie so much. It's far from the best on the album, but it has spunk and is totally engaging.
I love the slowed down vibe of `Out of My Mind', a song that sweetly captures Colbie's soul. Unlike tracks like `Stay With Me', this song has a sparkle in Colbie's delivery that makes it relatable and enticing. The same can be said for `What I Wanted to Say', even if it lacks a little bit of the emotional relevancy of `Out of My Mind'. The track couples the bouncy adorableness that defines Colbie (think a female Jack Johnson) with the emotional earnestness of her `singer/songwriter' side.
I really like the title track. It just bleeds with such honesty. Her vocals on the chorus are simply haunting. `Droplets', which she sings with Jason Reeves (check this guy out, he is really good) is another great example of her at her finest. The song doesn't necessarily JUMP out as special but it really captures why she is so likable.
Again, these are all good songs, but when you string together seventeen songs that sound similar, they may all be good but they start to run together and become undistinguishable and a tad monotonous.
But then there is the rest of the album, which consists of eight songs I just plain LOVE.
8) `Rainbow'. The song is swift and bouncy and so sunny in texture. I love the playful lyrics too. It just seems like the perfect `date'.
7) `I Won't'. The opening track is a great example of how vocal flaws can be so impressionable. The way she cracks during the chorus is simply stunning.
6) `Fallin For You'. The first single on the album was a great choice; definitive Colbie. This song just makes you want to lounge out on the beach with a margarita. The playful lyrics are sweet and genuine and relatable.
5) `Begin Again'. I just love the way she constructed the chorus here. It is just so engaging and happy, with a story that seems close to home.
I do love the fact that Colbie's music can be defined as `happy'.
4) `You Got Me'. We're reaching OMG I LOVE THIS territory. The bouncy texture to `You Got Me' is just so infectious. This is the type of upbeat track that you want to run through the streets singing!
3) `I Never Told You'. This is one of the two best `emotional' tracks on the album. The song just feels so earnest and so reflective and her vocals convey such emotional honesty. I love the message, because many relationships are very much like this one (I love you but I hate you and I hate that I miss you).
2) `It Stops Today'. This little ditty has grown and grown and grown in my eyes. It is fun and completely reflective. I love the lyrical content, and the way she weaved her effortless `flow' into the song. The catchy chorus is beautifully composed.
1) `Fearless'. This wasn't even a contest really. I will be the first to admit that the whole bridge part is a tad overdone with the "I believe in love" thing, but this song is so `felt' by Colbie that it gives me chills and nearly brings me to tears. The end of a relationship can be hard, especially when it takes you by surprise (and when the person ending things does so in a way that is unexpected and hurtful) and she makes that emotion evident on this track. It is so rich with heartfelt feeling and it is so relatable that I can't help but consider it her finest song to date.
So, in the end I totally recommend this one. I love her and I love her style and I can't wait for her to give me more. I'd like her to take more risks next time and maybe shorten her play list in order to hone her craft and deliver a very strong and unique set of tracks.
She has it in her.
 colbie April 2, 2010
nurse21 (Iowa City, Iowa)
if you love her style you will love the cd. Every song sounds the same to me though.
Not as good as first CD, but good March 22, 2010
Brian R. Holshouser
The product came in two weeks late, which sucked because it was supposed to be a Valentines day gift. But other then that the product isn't quite what the first CD was, so don't expect that. Most of the songs aren't quite as catchy, but it's still good.
Colbie crafts a pop gem February 15, 2010
Carolyn Blakeney (Annapolis, MD United States)
Pop music has always had the potential to uplift, transform, awaken- why do so many dismiss it as inconsequential, irrelevant, or unworthy? Perhaps because to do so it heightens the reviewer's position among some lazy minions who trash any gems because they resonate with the commons.
This gem embraces the commons (i.e., me). It freely examines rather well known situations, but it does so without resorting to tired cliches. It acknowledges those themes most familiar to the commons, and it does so in a manner so catchy and unrequited, that after listening to the samples, I had to download it immediately. This collection is now a permanent part of MY collection.
Listen to the music first, and then decide. Don't just go away with the opinions of other reviewers who are unable to spell.
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