“It is Time for a Love Revolution” – Lenny Kravitz

Rating: 3/10

Lenny Kravitz’s latest release, “It is Time for a Love Revolution,” leaves much to be desired.

The veteran rocker took this chance to expand on a theme, “love,” for an hour. The unfortunate conclusion is an album that has little to no originality.

The opener, “Love Revolution,” only proves that Kravitz is able to rhyme “revolution” and “constitution” and repeat those words for three minutes and 14 seconds. Someone should inform Kravitz that both The Beatles and The Who have rhymed “revolution” and “constitution,” but their songs have other words in them, too.

There are two respectable tracks on this album. “I’ll be Waiting” is a fairly sad love song. Then again, most of the songs on the album are fairly sad love songs — “Waiting” just happens to be the top of the bottom of the barrel. I can see this becoming good background noise on a Barnes & Noble in the future.

“Back in Vietnam” is an odd song because it has no continuity with anything Kravitz sings about for the other 56 minutes. He does gain some respect for making a politically critical song that has a bearing on the times. However, it’s nothing that The Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith, The Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan or Woody Guthrie haven’t done before.

“Love Revolution” is a perfect example of what artists can do when they take the smallest amount of time to craft meaningful lyrics or worry about distinct sounds.

There might be a rock ‘n’ roll heaven, and it may have a hell of a band, but that’s only because artists such as Lenny Kravitz will be entertaining groupies and never allowed on stage.