As I started listening to Brandi Carlile's self-titled CD, I couldn't help but feel that I had heard her songs elsewhere.

I've never heard of Brandi Carlile, but I actually found myself singing along with her track "What Can I Say."

I figured that maybe the lovely music executives at MTV threw the song in the background of Laguna Beach, while Jason bounced back and forth between Jessica, Alex and now LC.

But I was proven wrong when I realized this song was actually featured on ABC's hit show Grey's Anatomy, a show that has a little more substance than the kids over on MTV -- so I decided to give the CD more of a chance.

I found that "What Can I Say" is the stand-out song on the CD, with lyrics such as, "Look to the clock on the wall, hands hardly moving at all. I can't stand the state that I'm in, sometimes it feels like the wall's closing in."

I found the lyrics getting stuck in my head and had high hopes for the rest of the CD.

But the song appears too early, because, by track two, I no longer wanted to listen to the rest of the CD.

Though the 23-year-old from Washington state works hard to make her debut album stand out, it falls a little short. Tracks such as "Happy" and "Fall Apart Again" show the trend Carlile falls into. She continually bounces back and forth between the extremes of happy and sad and shows that something is missing throughout the album. No song stands out enough to be single-worthy other than "What Can I Say," and even that song doesn't sound like something that Ryan Seacrest will be looping on his radio show anytime soon.

Don't get me wrong, Carlile does have a good voice -- she actually sounds like a younger Bonnie Raitt -- but if she wants to break through with this album, she might want to add a few more tracks to this 10-song CD.

There isn't a single song on the album that really sticks with you after listening to the album.

Songs start to blend together, and you don't realize that the song has actually changed because the tone of the songs seem to stay relatively the same.

Throughout the CD, I found myself in a rather solemn mood -- not cool.

Come to think of it, that episode of Grey's Anatomy I watched was kind of sad; no wonder they used Carlile.

-- Reviewed by Erika Jarvis