From canada.com:

The phenomenon that is Hannah Montana should not be underestimated.

It is vast, all-encompassing and ongoing. But even as she signs in for another season of the smash hit TV show about a regular teenage girl who moonlights as a pop star, Miley Cyrus is looking ahead. Which means setting herself up for the post-Hannah Montana career. Hey, when you’re 15 years old, you gotta think of your future.

So, after releasing two albums as her TV alter-ego (well, one and-a-half, technically - the 2007 double CD Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus featured one disc from each persona), Cyrus steps out, all on her own, as a solo artist.

But she’s hardly leaving it all behind. While Cyrus claims this is a more mature album, it remains generic teen-pop, through and through. Even Avril Lavigne seems edgy by comparison. Fans of Hillary Duff, listen up.

Cyrus’s concerns are set out from the opening title track: “Every week’s the same / Stuck in school’s so lame / My parents say that I’m lazy / Getting up at 8 a.m.’s crazy.”

The pop-punky first single 7 Things is a breakup song (one of many) that scratches the surface just enough to allude to an alleged relationship (”You make me laugh you make me cry / I don’t know which side to buy”), without getting into details. Power-ballad The Driveway follows suit. This is cookie-cutter, multi-format radio pop for Hannah Montana fans who are starting to look for something - but not much - more in their music.

Most won’t get the reference in Cyrus’s uptempo, orchestrally enhanced but spontaneity-challenged cover of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

Fly On the Wall is powered with vapid electro-pop raunch; Bottom of the Ocean is a lush, 80s-tinged tear-jerker; Wake Up America tackles global warming to a cheeky riff-rock backdrop; These 4 Walls has a country twang; and the remixed See You Again is bubble gum dance-pop.

Cyrus has all the bases covered, at least in terms of providing bright-eyed ditties for wide-eyed kiddies craving a safe, squeaky-clean introduction to the pop world. For an album that expresses a more textured musical and emotional maturity, we may have to wait until she graduates from high school.

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