Kelly Rowland - "Love" (mp3)
Kelly's always been a likeable underdog, even now that Destiny's Child is ostensibly over and her beautiful harmonies aren't constantly being drowned out by Beyonce's blaring leads. Still, no amount of goodwill for her, or even a single as fantastic as "Like This," which D.C. radio is still playing the shit out of thanks to the vague Go-Go vibe of the drums, could overshadow the fact that Ms. Kelly is not very good. Don't get me wrong, it's better than that weak-ass LeToya album. But it's still pretty short on highlights past the one frontloaded hit, even after it was delayed a year supposedly to add more uptempo tracks. I was hoping this would tide me over until the Amerie album finally got a U.S. release, but that doesn't seem to be dropping anytime soon, and I'm still kinda starved for a decent female R&B album so far this year. Maybe the Keyshia Cole record will be good?
Scott Storch makes a noble attempt at Rich Harrison-style bombast on "Work" (why Kelly didn't reunite with Rich himself after "Can't Nobody" is a mystery to me), and "Comeback" sounds like it was written around the prechorus from "Bills, Bills, Bills," but they all come out less than the sum of their parts. Surprisingly, it's the track that Solange helped write and produce, "Love," that briefly rescue the album from the side 2 doldrums. That Kelly, if it's not one Knowles it's another right around the corner waiting to save her ass.
Kelly's always been a likeable underdog, even now that Destiny's Child is ostensibly over and her beautiful harmonies aren't constantly being drowned out by Beyonce's blaring leads. Still, no amount of goodwill for her, or even a single as fantastic as "Like This," which D.C. radio is still playing the shit out of thanks to the vague Go-Go vibe of the drums, could overshadow the fact that Ms. Kelly is not very good. Don't get me wrong, it's better than that weak-ass LeToya album. But it's still pretty short on highlights past the one frontloaded hit, even after it was delayed a year supposedly to add more uptempo tracks. I was hoping this would tide me over until the Amerie album finally got a U.S. release, but that doesn't seem to be dropping anytime soon, and I'm still kinda starved for a decent female R&B album so far this year. Maybe the Keyshia Cole record will be good?
Scott Storch makes a noble attempt at Rich Harrison-style bombast on "Work" (why Kelly didn't reunite with Rich himself after "Can't Nobody" is a mystery to me), and "Comeback" sounds like it was written around the prechorus from "Bills, Bills, Bills," but they all come out less than the sum of their parts. Surprisingly, it's the track that Solange helped write and produce, "Love," that briefly rescue the album from the side 2 doldrums. That Kelly, if it's not one Knowles it's another right around the corner waiting to save her ass.
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