1/5
As the fierce, ballad-pounding females of ’90s lose their girlhood
charms (see: Tori Amos), pretty Polly Scattergood has crossed the seas
to fill the newest smart-girl alt-rock slot. But, like reading your little sister’s scribbled diary entries, the blonde’s eponymous debut gets boring real fast. ‘I Hate the Way’ lists off all the things Polly hates: ‘I hate the way I cry when you say you miss me,’ she flutters, all weepy and British. This belongs back under the pillow where we found it.