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Lauren Christy — “The Color of the Night” (from Lauren Christy) —

The biggest sucker ever for these huge crashing power ballads am I. Given the subsequent smash success she managed to achieve as the driving force behind wunderkind production team The Matrix (who wrote or co-wrote indelible hits for Christina Aguilera, Jason Mraz, Liz Phair, and of course Avril Lavigne in the last decade), it’s a little surprising that Christy’s solo career — two albums between 1993 and 1997, both of them unjustified commercial flops — was such a non-starter. Too bad, too, ’cause she could have given all of those Lilith broads a run for their money.

names dropped with reckless abandon: Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Jason Mraz, Lauren Christy, Liz Phair, The Matrix