Moment of Truth (Terri Nunn album)
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| Studio album by Terri Nunn | ||||
| Released | 1991 (US), 21 January 1992 (Europe) | |||
| Genre | Pop-rock, Pop, Rock | |||
| Length | 53:46 | |||
| Label | DGC, Mercury | |||
| Producer | David Z, Steve Brown (track 1) | |||
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| Trouser Press | unfavorable |
Moment of Truth is the début and sole solo album from American singer and actress Terri Nunn, best known as lead singer of the American New Wave/Synthpop band Berlin.
Following the original Berlin's split in 1987, Nunn recorded and released Moment of Truth.
The album was a commercial failure, whilst the lead and sole single "Let Me Be the One" also suffered a similar fate after being released in January 1992. "89 Lines" was released as an American promotional single only.
Due to the failure of the album, Nunn would not record another solo album although she would later retain the legal rights to usage of the band's name after legal wranglings with the founding member of the group, John Crawford. Nunn recreated Berlin, with a new line-up of musicians, in 1998. In a late 1990s interview with Nunn for Electrogarden, Nunn explained that she originally left Berlin as she wanted to try new styles of sound and music.
In an article based on Nunn in Hollywood Bowl, the article mentioned the album, writing "Moment of Truth allowed Terri to branch out creatively and experiment with a variety of styles including rap, pop ballads and straight up rock 'n' roll."
In a 1996 article by The Telegraph-Herald based on the reformed version of Berlin, it stated that Nunn "dismisses Moment of Truth as a transitional album."
The album's songs were written from 1988 to 1991 by various composers, with Nunn receiving writing credit for six of the eleven tracks.
In a March 1992 interview/article with Beaver County Times, Nunn spoke of the album's writing and her musical growth. "When I wrote this album, I'd planned to expose myself a lot more with my writing. All of the musicians I grew up idolizing and loving, that's what I loved about them - David Bowie, Grace Slick, Bonnie Raitt. They exposed themselves and how they were growing through their music. That helped me as a person, as well as listening to the music and getting off on the oral high. It was a communication."
On an interview whilst promoting the album for CNBC, it is revealed that the album was lyrically more personal to Nunn than the Berlin albums. "Desire Me" was based on sexual desire. When asked in the interview how Nunn got into the mood of writing "Desire Me", Nunn replied "It came out of two weeks of being extremely horny. There wasn't anybody around at the time, I wasn't in a relationship, and so at least something came out of it."
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