Unfabulous and More

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Unfabulous and More
Unfabulous and More Emma Roberts.jpg
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2005
Recorded2004-2005
StudioPhase One Studios (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Pie Studios (Glen Cove, New York), House of Blues (Encino, California), and Unpronounceable Symbol (Encino, California)
Genre Pop rock
Length36:01
Label Columbia
Producer Brian Malouf, Marshall Altman
Singles from Unfabulous and More
  1. "I Wanna Be"
    Released: September 2005 [1]
  2. "Dummy"
    Released: December 2005 [2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Unfabulous and More is the soundtrack album for the television series Unfabulous , performed by American actress Emma Roberts. [5] It was released on September 27, 2005.

Contents

The album contains songs from the show's first season, as well as several new songs. The tracks "I Wanna Be" and "Dummy" were both released as singles. The song "Mexican Wrestler", which was sung by Emma in the episode "The 66th Day", was originally on Jill Sobule's 2000 album Pink Pearl .

This album was one of the 52 from Sony BMG that were on the company's list of CDs shipped with the computer software known as Extended Copy Protection (XCP), as well as the only Nickelodeon-related CD originally shipped with the software. [6] [7] As a result, any Microsoft Windows computer that has been used to play this CD is likely to have had XCP installed. This can cause a number of serious security problems. Several security software vendors, including Microsoft, regard XCP as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit. [8] Sony discontinued use of the technology on November 11, 2005, [9] and recalled this and other titles affected by XCP, and asked customers to submit copies affected by the software to the company so that it could replace them with copies that did not contain the software. [10]

Track listing

  1. "I Wanna Be"
  2. "Punch Rocker" (Jill Sobule) – 2:33
  3. "Say Goodbye to Jr. High" (Anjulie Persaud) – 3:39
  4. "I Have Arrived" (Jeannie Lurie, Holly Mathis, Lindsay Sorensen, Christopher Sorensen) – 3:23
  5. "94 Weeks (Metal Mouth Freak)" (Sobule) – 3:49
  6. "This Is Me" (Marshall Altman, Emma Roberts, Erin Workman) – 3:40
  7. "Dummy" (Franne Golde, Kasia Livingston, Andrew Williams) – 3:08
  8. "Mexican Wrestler" (Robin Eaton, Sobule) – 5:02
  9. "We Are Gonna Happen" (Dave Derby, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Michael Kotch) – 3:35
  10. "New Shoes" (Sue Rose, Sobule) – 2:16
  11. "Look in the Mirror" Bonus Track – Limited Too Package – 1:05

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2005) [11] Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard )46
US Kid Albums ( Billboard )10

Notes

  1. "I Wanna Be by Emma Roberts". SoundCloud. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  2. "Dummy by Emma Roberts". SoundCloud. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  3. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r790552
  4. "Parent reviews, Family reviews | Common Sense Media".
  5. "Unfabulous and More by Emma Roberts". iTunes. 27 September 2005. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  6. List of titles affected by XCP
  7. "Sony officially lists 52 XCP infected CDs & faces a loss of sales". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  8. "Microsoft to Zap Sony DRM Rootkit". eWEEK. 12 November 2005.
  9. "Breaking News, Business News, Financial and Investing News & More - Reuters.co.uk". arquivo.pt. Archived from the original on 2009-12-23.
  10. Graham, Jefferson (2005-11-14). "Sony to pull controversial CDs, offer swap". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  11. "Emma Roberts Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved November 30, 2018.

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