Today's Pick

Sarah McLachlan returns with a new music video for the debut single "Loving You Is Easy" from her upcoming album, "Laws of Illusion," her first studio album of new material in 7 years, will be in stores tomorrow on Arista Records.
Multi-platinum and Grammy Award winning and Lilith Fair founder is feeling good and it shows. In Liz Friedlander directed video for "Loving You is Easy," her breeziest song, maybe, ever, she struts her stuff. Her new man has her feeling sexy and sultry. To her and Friedlander's credit, there's no literal interpretation of the lyrics: we don't see McLachlan burst into flames when she sings she's "on fire" or leap into the air when she rhapsodizes about his love taking her "higher." It's just McLachlan in an array of slinky, but not inappropriate, clothes, bubbles and confetti. The point of the video, is about how her guy's love makes her feel and it's clearly delicious.
The album's lead single, "Loving You Is Easy" was inspired by what was clearly a giddy recent experience: finding new love, and post-separation. The song basically has McLachlan waxing not-so-poetically about how happy she is with the new man in her life. It's the most added song on AAA radio, the multi-platinum singer, is sticking with the dreamy ballads and soaring vocals that have marked her previous work. The video for song is also an absolute treat for the senses. McLachlan trades depression for happiness in her new album as well.
McLachlan, now 42, is known for the emotional sound of her ballads. She's been crushed by love and she's lifted by it. Now, on her seventh album, "Laws of Illusion," Canadian songstress is reflecting on those emotional highs and lows, mostly the lows, as she pretty much always has. With solemn, melancholic ballads and soft, new-agey pop songs, brought home by the beautifully haunting ring of her voice. On "Loving You Is Easy," however, McLachlan sings of the joy and healing power of being in love again. The tune is uncharacteristically spry with an uplifting, insistent drum and piano groove that makes it a welcome addition to the disc. Yes, it's that sort of intimacy that made McLachlan such a voice for the Lilith Fair generation she spawned, but at this point it comes across as tired much more often than inspired.