Jamie Foxx's last album, 2005's Unpredictable, sold almost 2 million records, but it only really had one or two moderately popular singles, and pretty much got all those sales because Foxx was in his brief little period of do-no-wrong superstardom in the direct aftermath of Ray and the Oscar and "Gold Digger." I found the album fairly enjoyable when I reviewed it, but when he took 3 years to follow it up it seemed even more like a weird novelty in retrospect. Of course, his new album Intuition does follow some fairly high profile guest appearances on that boring "MIss Independent" remix (included on the album) and "Please Excuse My Hands," which made perfect use of the guy's totally skeezy vibe. But Intuition's kind of by-committee hodgepodge of superstar producers and guests actually works pretty well, and I generally like those tracks on the album most, whereas on Unpredictable I preferred the stripped-down ballads.

There's a song on Intuition produced by T-Pain that interpolates The-Dream's "I Luv Your Girl," and a song produced by Tricky and The-Dream that interpolates T-Pain's "Can't Believe It." That just about says it all about the predictable trend-chasing on this album, although biting Andy Samberg for the "Just Like Me" video is some less predictable trend-chasing. Sometimes there's bad ideas, like doing a sex jam with the girl from Floetry (and Raheem DeVaughn also had the same bad idea on his last album), but mostly it's a pretty decent R&B album with some brief awesome moments. The Lil Wayne/Just Blaze track "Number One" is completely ridiculous, and I'd be mad that it's not the next single if the next single, "Blame It," wasn't also pretty damn good. That's not to say that there's anything on this album as entertaining as "I'm your conscience" and "what's going on with you, Iron Man, man" though.

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