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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 108310
Released: July 11, 2006 |
| Our Price: $1.76 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Day Has Come Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. I Want To
3. Hanging On
4. One Original Thing
5. The Day Has Come
6. Four Walls
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Good Go Bad
9. Everythign To Lose
10. Breaking Your Heart
11. Mr. Beautiful
12. Didn't I
13. Full Circle
Editorial Review:
Depending on your age, the name Cheyenne Kimball could be familiar to you for one of a number of reasons. She took her first step on the ladder of fame when she won the 'America's Most Talented Kid' competition in 2003--singing her own song--at the age of 12. The Texas teenager then signed on with MTV to document her rise to fame on reality TV; instead of highlighting her flaws, the show served to affirm her sincerity and talent. Three years after inking a recording deal, The Day Has Come is Kimball's musical result; true to her abilities, she has co-written every song and played guitar on nearly every track.
Still, there are many heavy hitters contributing to this disc, from The Matrix to Chantal Kreviazuk (who co-wrote much of Avril Lavigne’s last CD) to former members of Blind Melon. The question remains: is she a compelling young celebrity who can somewhat carry a tune, or a good musician who happens to have benefited from prime TV time? Judging by this disc, Kimball can definitely write, play, and sing. While still having a young voice, her control, depth, and ability to create hooks are well-showcased in the lyrically-disenchanted "Good Go Bad" and the country-infused "Everything To Lose." "Hanging On" is a catchy first single, delivered with confidence and perfect pitch. The end result? With solid tracks and powerful--but still developing--chops, Kimball is a young pop-ster with much potential, a possible future Sheryl Crow in the making. --Denise Sheppard
The Day Has Come Reviews:
Not too shabby... 
2008-06-09 - Alright, I admit it. I bought this because Cheyenne is so frickin' cute! Although most of the songs on this album are about disproving that attractive innocence, well... it still shows through. Weirdly enough, that's the tension on this album : experience vs innnocence. It's actually quite weird, I guess you could attribute it to the `help' she had writing the songs. Nonetheless, makes for an interesting listen. Plus, she was 16 when she made this album. What exactly were you doing at that age? I think I was playing video games and football. So... overall, the song-writing is competent, but not much that'll stay with me forever. Except for maybe the last track, which wins the album for me. So, it's really 3 1/2 stars, but.. I guess I'll round up. Unfortunately, I think Cheyenne was discouraged by her lack of immediate acceptance everywhere... it's been what, two years now? Ah, well. Flicker-flash-fade. Etc.
She may not be the strongest singer, but this is an incredible debut! 
2007-11-12 - She does not have a Mariah Carey voice at all, but this is a very strong debut. Any of the first eight songs on the album could easily be singles. For those who say she is just another annoying bubble-gum pop singer, think again, her music is very original. It is actually much more of a rock album then a pop album, and filled with great guitar playing. I think her voice sounds great on the album, but I will agree that often when she performs live it sounds rough and sometimes strained. But in a way it makes her voice kind of unique. Never the less, her guitar playing is great and so are her songwriting skills. In order, the standout tracks are: THE DAY HAS COME, One Original Thing, I Want To, Hanging On, Hello Goodbye, Four Walls and Breaking Your Heart..Her rock sound is very appealing and it is great that all the young girls who follow her can be exposed to this type of music. Her MTV reality show was also a very good and intersting show for aspiring musicians and she did not come off like a know-at-all in the least. The show also helped her album become a success, despite the rumors that it flopped, the album charted at a very respectable #15 on the Billboard 200. Cheyenne's album is very good and look foward to see how her voice and styles develop on her next album. Even though it is slightly bizare that Cheyenne was able to win "America's Most Talented Kid," against great singers such as JoJo and Diana DeGarmo, I thinks she is very talented and has a promising career ahead of her.
She must not be having a very happy day 
2007-09-13 - When you have a name like Cheyenne Kimball, you have to get into the entertainment business. I first heard of her last year when I caught her video for "Hanging On" on MTV Hits. I thought that maybe she was trying to give Aly & AJ a run for their money, but with The Day Has Come, she proves that she's a more than adequate artist in her own right.
While most of the songs sound decent enough separately, the reason why I gave the album three stars is because eight of the twelve songs on here (excluding the intro) are about the same thing: heartbreak; and what's more, it's the last eight songs on the album. I mean, selections like "Mr. Beautiful", "Everything to Lose" and "Four Walls" aren't bad, but they really make things monotonous. Also, as a few other reviewers said, Cheyenne doesn't exactly have the strongest set of pipes (see the title track).
Speaking of that, things aren't a whole lot better when she DOESN'T talk about breakups either; case in point: I don't think "I Want to" is as great as other people do. It's admirable that Cheyenne co-wrote every song on here and performed all the lead acoustic guitar parts at her age, but there's too much redundancy in the subject matter, so for her next album, she should follow track 4 and create one original thing.
Anthony Rupert
Judgment "Day"
2007-04-29 - OK. This CD was displayed somewhat prominently at the local Tower Records (RIP), and I picked it up on a whim (i. e., cute girl with guitar). I know nothing about Cheyenne Kimball, an apparent TV star. And I might not have ever known if not for an insert in the CD case advertising the release of the First Season DVD of her eponymously titled MTV series, "Cheyenne." Unencumbered by the usual small-screen-star-aspires-to-be-singer expectations, "The Day Has Come" actually comes across as a legitimate album on its own merits rather than as simply a cash-in product. Kimball raids the classic rock closet and pulls out the Black Crowes, Tom Petty, Heart, Def Leppard, and similar artifacts, circa late-'70s to early '90s. While the adult clothes fit a bit loosely on her -- what with her teen voice -- she sings with enough conviction and personality to show the promise that she might eventually fit them comfortably. There are the typical teen fare that resemble the output of Avril Lavigne and Michelle Branch, but what pushes Kimball's album above the others is that many of the tracks here do not pull their punches musically in favor of an overly saccharine, Disneyfied "polished-for-teen-consumption" sound. And more importantly, Kimball is able to keep up. The best songs here -- "I Want To"; "The Day Has Come"; "Good Gone Bad"; "Everything to Lose"; "Didn't I" -- retain their rough edges and would not sound out of place musically on an album alongside the tunes that influenced them.
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2007-04-07 - not a single chord, note, or beat out of place, nothing that isn't utterly rigid, monotonuos and predictable. like maybe she/they could have switched up the strumming pattern from one chord to the next sometimes, or put in the occasional drum fill so you can at least tell it isn't programmed.
