“No Fairy Tale,” Lisa Loeb’s latest album in a line of eight stretching back to 1994’s “Purple Tape,” falls flat. Loeb seems to be grasping for a connection to the youth of today with two songs on the album written by

Canadian rock duo Tegan & Sara. One of them, “The Worst,” has more of an acoustic feel, so it is more tolerable than the try-hard bubblegum pop of the rest of the album. This may be coming from someone who only identifies with Loeb’s No. 1 single “Stay” from 1994, but she is losing her touch.

What came off as charmingly naive nearly two decades ago now seems immature and artificial. Loeb will draw a larger audience from children with this album than 2011’s “Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The

Disappointing Pancake and Other Zany Songs,” an album actually made to accompany a children’s book.