{"product_id":"bette","title":"Bette","description":"Like its predecessor Bathhouse Betty, Bette Midler's Bette spends a good deal of its playing time on ambitious, smartly chosen songs. Even the biggest pop-ballad success here is a Dionne Warwick-style take on the Elvis Costello\/Burt Bacharach, weeper \"God Give Me Strength\", rather than a dire work of schlock such as \"The Wind Beneath My Wings\". Elsewhere, Midler continues to indulge her cheeky side--the album's working title was Bette, Bath and Beyond--with KirstyMacColl's Cuban-influenced \"In These Shoes\" and a revival of Teddy Pendergrass' classic \"Love TKO\" with an impressively throaty vocal. The handful of Hallmark-esque tunes near disc's end doesn't diminish the subtlety and taste of the rest. --Park Slope","brand":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47745040482467,"sku":"093624784326-streaming","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/6831\/6835\/files\/71hXbcOaRQL.jpg?v=1780687721","url":"https:\/\/kicksmixbooks.store\/products\/bette","provider":"Kicks Mix Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}