All Music Guide - Fred Thomas Following a long hiatus beginning in the mid-'90s, the onetime undisputed queen of pop metal, Lita Ford, returned to the world of performance with 2009's Wicked Wonderland. The record was a far cry from the radio-ready hard rock she made her name on in the hair metal days, leaning more toward industrial heaviness, electronic instruments, and S&M imagery than any of her material that came beforehand, solo or otherwise. The record met a generally frustrated reception and poor sales, and with this, her eighth solo album, Living Like a Runaway, Ford strips away some of the conceptual and electronic mayhem that made the last album so confusing, returning to a more ...
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