This album is 16 tracks. As I've said the new trend is away from these track overloaded albums and there are reasons. The obvious one is that it is hard to find 16 solid tracks to put on an album. You could have easily dropped six tracks off of this album and they would not have been missed. But the more artistic reason for trimming albums down is that the artists are treating them like albums again, and not just a collection of songs. Find 9 to 12 songs that you can craft as a coherent album and you have produced a much truer piece of art than a disparate collection of 16 songs. What we have here is a disparate collection of 16 songs. We have songs featuring someone, we have dance tracks, we have breakup tracks, we have makeup tracks, and of course we have inspirational. But much like I said about Shontelle you could throw any number of singers on this album and you would get the same result.
Overall tone is a bit moody. But I don't think that was necessarily intended. You take a song like "Party" which is suppose to be a lively dance song, and it is so incredibly flat. As you trudge through this album after a bit you just get overwhelmed by the lifelessness of it.
I could see playing this in the background in the evening while you kick back and read.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 1 out of 5 stars for Just OK.
Here is my 10 track version of the album
1. I Still
2. Way You Move
3. Real Things
4. Worth It
5. Right Here
6. Can't Stay Away
7. Sunshine
8. Everyday Struggle
9. The Love in Me
10. Baby Lay
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