By RUSSELL BAILLIE
(Herald rating: * * * * )
If there's a job going with the worrying description "the female Eminem" then it sounds as if Princess Superstar — the blonde Jewish New Yorker who's real name is Concetta Kirschner — has just put her CV on the top of the pile.
Not only is she blackly funny and rude throughout this vital 16-track album — the early Bad Babysitter is laugh-out-loud stuff — but it's also the aggressive I'm-already-famous alter-ego she projects that makes her compelling, as does her tongue-tripping delivery of imaginative lyrics and an ability to make it all sound like pop music.
Oh, and she's got her own Dido too, in the form of English chill-out songstress Beth Orton on Untouchable Part 2. Orton is just one on the guest list, which notably includes old-schooler Kool Keith on the entertainingly salacious duet Keith 'N Me.
And the real Slim Shady? She has him on a bit in Welcome to My World in lines which are fittingly enough unprintable here. A discovery.
Label: K7
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