I'm having an up-down feeling about this CD. Jamie Foxx has a beautiful voice, and I love to hear him REALLY sing from his gut up. I think he's great at ballads, and he's one of a handful of today's R&B artists who can sing a capella and completely blow me away. When I heard the beginning of this CD, I thought he was dumbing down his voice entirely too much. The problem with party tracks is you don't really have to sing to pull them off. As long as you can carry a tune, a party track will work because people are more concerned with dancing and catchy choruses. Jamie Foxx is above all that. There's a reason he was so good at his role as Ray Charles. There's a reason why I'd fast forward through "The Jamie Foxx Show" to get to the parts where he'd sing some random tune.
There are a bunch of songs on here that are okay, but they seem to fit somebody who's into the whole singer-rapper career. I shrugged through "Living Better Now," "Winner" and "Freak." "Yep, Dat's Me" was cool until I got to Ludacris' part. I thought it was fine with just Soulja Boy and Jamie Foxx, but I like that song more because Jamie kept going on music TV stations and talk shows making the crowd chant that. I'm bored with the liquor songs like "Best Night of My Life."
"Hit It Like This" was his regular nymphomaniac style, and it took me a minute, but I smiled through this one. "Fall for Your Type" seemed like a Drake song instead of a Jamie Foxx song because that dude stays complaining about being heartbroken, but I immediately liked that song.
I loved "Let Me Get You on Your Toes" from the time I heard him sing it on "Lopez Tonight." "15 Minutes" makes me want to watch an episode of "Martin." Funny song, but he was trying to be sexy. "Sleeping Pill" was excellent, but what is up with this dude and liquor? How many Patron plugs can there be on one CD? The rest of the songs were cool. It's not that I don't like the CD. I just like smooth R&B more than pop/dance tracks like "All Said and Done" and "Sex on the Beach." It sounds like he's using a vocoder. Why? He can already sing.
There are a bunch of songs on here that are okay, but they seem to fit somebody who's into the whole singer-rapper career. I shrugged through "Living Better Now," "Winner" and "Freak." "Yep, Dat's Me" was cool until I got to Ludacris' part. I thought it was fine with just Soulja Boy and Jamie Foxx, but I like that song more because Jamie kept going on music TV stations and talk shows making the crowd chant that. I'm bored with the liquor songs like "Best Night of My Life."
"Hit It Like This" was his regular nymphomaniac style, and it took me a minute, but I smiled through this one. "Fall for Your Type" seemed like a Drake song instead of a Jamie Foxx song because that dude stays complaining about being heartbroken, but I immediately liked that song.
I loved "Let Me Get You on Your Toes" from the time I heard him sing it on "Lopez Tonight." "15 Minutes" makes me want to watch an episode of "Martin." Funny song, but he was trying to be sexy. "Sleeping Pill" was excellent, but what is up with this dude and liquor? How many Patron plugs can there be on one CD? The rest of the songs were cool. It's not that I don't like the CD. I just like smooth R&B more than pop/dance tracks like "All Said and Done" and "Sex on the Beach." It sounds like he's using a vocoder. Why? He can already sing.
02 - Best Night Of My Life (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
03 - Living Better Now (feat. Rick Ross)
04 - Winner (feat. Justin Timberlake & T.I.)
05 - Freak (feat. Rico Love)
06 - Hit It Like This
07 - Yep Dat's Me (feat. Ludacris & Soulja Boy)
08 - Fall For Your Type (feat. Drake)
09 - Gorgeous
10 - Let Me Get You On Your Toes (interlude)
11 - 15 Minutes
12 - Sleeping Pill
13 - Rejoice
14 - All Said And Done
15 - Sex On The Beach (Bonus Track)
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