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"The Heat"
After a nearly four-year absence from
recording, Braxton returns with The Heat, her third album. Full
of drama--sometimes melodrama--it unsurprisingly puts her rich
voice and command of nuance front and center of one state-of-the-art
track after another. Unfortunately, The Heat plays up her taste
for ballads to such a point that the disc bores itself into a
quiet-storm rut. The big exception is the Rodney Jerkins-produced
first single, "He Wasn't Man Enough." The song's smoldering
rebuff and Jerkins's measured funk make a perfect match for Braxton's-
matter-of-fact hauteur. Braxton also delivers a tough take on
reality with "Just Be a Man About It," which pits her
against Dr. Dre in a breakup scenario that carries much more
force than weightless trifles such as the filler sex-me-up "The
Art of Love" and Diane Warren's "Spanish Guitar."
--Bob Roget |
Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: darius101 from Miami, Florida
United States
This CD of Toni is awesome.When I first bought this CD the songs
that I really liked were, "Just Be a man about it","He
was man enough","Maybe","Spanish Guitar","
Never just for a Ring","The Heat", and last but
not least "Art of Love". This CD blew me away. I played
MAYBE and The HEAT over and over again, those two were my jams,
I would get off from work and play those two in my car, Especially
maybe, I would ride on South Beach blasting that song. Toni's
CD is great and the songs all tell a story. There are songs that
you can jam to, also there are songs you can just make love to,
like "Speaking in Tongues", and "Art Of Love".
Overall Toni has done it again. |
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