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Om Records presents music for Derek Zoolander.  Colette likes moldy cheese, bubble gum, blow pops, and of course, male models.  They are the four key elements of her 10-year-plus-regression of dance music.  Her PR rep even suggested that she remedies Kylie Minogue’s “breathy” voice.  In reality, Colette could only aspire to be her.  I suppose I would not mind her as much if she was not promoted as such a pleasant kickback to 90s house, hip-hop, and electro.  To be fair, there are two tracks on the album that can endure a brief listen:  “Funny” (featuring Black Spade) is a poppy, fun song until Colette unnecessarily lays in on a fermata over “Niiiight” and “tooogeth-aaah.”    Obviously Colette has practiced to Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” repeatedly, and she could not quite hit the mark.   Some of the tracks even begin with a good hook, such as the remix of “Funny” tacked on to the end of the album.   As long as Colette’s voice is digitally manipulated with a soft echo, one could dance in a blissfully drunken stupor.   Unfortunately, after a minute and a half, they shut the echo off and Colette pouts her glitter-pink lips all over the microphone. – Crystal Farina