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Forever in a Day

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This year I came out of the closet and told my friends that I was a Day 26 fan. I found out they were too!! The debut album is still in the cd changer so I was very eager to purchase new music from this VERY talented group of guys. I have listened to a few tracks via MTV's leak but I wanted to save the rest for the release date. I'm only on my third listen and the album is good but I would prefer a few more ballads. I guess Que got what he wanted with an up-tempo album but there is nothing like listening to Day 26 harmonize and wreck a slow song.

Best Song: Perfectly Blind is my favorite on the album. Que and Dawn vocally produced a sultry song.

Worst Song: Need That is absolutely terrible. Thank God it is only 2:30 long.

The Good (9/10)
Imma Put it on Her- Brian's ad-libs are amazing

Stadium Music- Best way to describe it is colossal. I like it!

So Good- B. Cox never disappoints. He is R&B through and through. The guys work well with him.

Girlfriend- Tank helped the guys deliver a great song.

Babymaker- Glad I'm on birth control because this is definitely a baby maker.

The Bad
Shawty Wats Up- The song is past the whole vocoder phase. I'm too tired to even listen. Besides, with voices like that, why distort them?

The other songs on the album are non skippers but don't stand out as much as the good, the bad, the best, or the worst.

With the vocal talent that Day has, I wish them all the best. This was a good sophomore effort and I look forward to what else they have in store. While this album is not as great as the first, I feel that it will catapult them into another realm and an audience that didn't take them serious at first.

I became a HUGE Day 26 fan because of their first album. Honestly..I've never bought a CD where I loved EVERY single track. But..that's exactly how I felt about that 1st album. I still listen to it!!!

As for their sophomore album, I'm sorry to say, only a few tracks caught my attention. Not sure what happened here, but I still give it an "A" for effort.

Out of the 15 tracks, only the ones below caught my attention. Whether it was in a good/bad way.


My absolute FAVORITE track...

Track 11 - Then There's You(Love it!!!!)


Wouldn't mind hearing on the radio...
Track 2 - Imma put it on her
Track 8 -So Good
Track 9 - Girlfriend
Track 14 - Your heels


WHY THE HELL is this on the album...
Track 3 - Shawty Wats Up
Track 12 - Need That

I'll be the first to admit that there isn't one powerhouse group in modern R&B, that could hold a candle to legends like New Edition, The Whispers or Boyz II Men, however with their sophomore CD, Day26 proves their up to the job. After a lackluster & disappointing first album, I wasn't looking forward to another album from the group and I honestly hoped they would fade in R&B obscurity. However given the P. Diddy is a marketing genius, we now have a second album from the group. On my first listen the album didn't start out too promising when it came to the up-tempo tracks. I've never cared for Imma Put it On Her and I'm truly sick of T-Pain who appears on one of the album's weakest tracks Shawty Wass Up. However when I arrived at track 7 with the ballad Perfectly Blind, the CD began to pick up stem. The four songs that follow "So Good", "Girlfriend", "Babymaker" and "Then There's You" are all some of the best material the group has recorded and shows them harmonizing at their best. After some nice slow cuts were treated to the Jermaine Dupri assisted it which is the second weakest song CD following Shawty Wass Up, listening to this song was worse than hearing Kris Allen sing on American Idol. After another ballad the CD closes out with a weakly with "Your Heels" feat. Jazza Pha & un-needed bonus track. Forever In A Day is no where near as classic as New Edition's Heartbreak or Boyz II Men's A Journey Through Hitsville CD's, however the ballads constitute giving this CD a listen.

There has been a lack of great R&B in the universe since the demise of "Neo-Soul" music. Let's face it, we wish Erykah Badu, John Legend, Music Soulchild, India.Irie, and Jill Scott were still making it hard for people to make sub-par, over produced, pop (bubble gum) R&B albums. Few have tried to find the soul in R&B music recently (Lyfe Jennings, J. Holiday, Robin Thicke) but have not found the popularity or radio and video circulation of the Ushers and Justin Timberlakes of the world.
Enter Day 26. We know the story of 5 young musical upstarts who were chosen by music mogul/svengali P. Diddy to be the next big stars on his label Bad Boy Entertainment via the uber popular, mind numbing MTV show Making the Band 4. (The season that also gave birth to ever struggling artist Donnie Klang.)The debut album entered the charts at #1 and was touted by some as "better than we thought it would be".
With the group's second offering, Forever In a Day, the guys sound more mature with some of the best harmonies heard from a "boy band" (Let's face it, they're a boy band!) since Boys II Men. Tracks like the lead single "Imma Put It On Her" and "Stadium Music" showcase the guys vocals eloquently. "Bipolar" is a standout track with both a peculiar production by C-Major accented by odd vocal choices that somehow work.
The down side to Forever In a Day is it's failure to move past the group's debut album. Vocally the album features a little growth, but not so much you notice on the first listen. We know these guys have insane vocal ability but somehow there's the sneaking suspicion that there's more. The content of the album, though, is simple and yet more of the bump 'n grind R&B.
If anyone has watched this season of MTB 4 you're familiar with the struggle within the group over the direction of this album. What has resulted with the final product of Forever In a Day confirms that one embattled member of group may have been right about Day 26 taking more risks.

This is a pretty good CD with alot of good songs but unfortunatley their are bad songs on this CD, Its no where near their debut album but it is an ok sophmore album..

Best Songs
-So Good
-Just Getting Started
-Stadium Music
-Perfectly Blind (Best On CD)
-Baby Maker

So-So songs
-Truth is a lie
-Bipolar
-Reminds Me Of You
-Girlfriend

No Good
-Shawty Wats Up
-Need That

This album has SOME good tracks, but there's only about 3 great songs. Their first album was way better. The song selection was poor on this one. They should've included Lemme Luv U Girl and Anything on the album. I can do without Shawty Wussup and Bipolar. Gosh those are horrible.

I'm so tired of hearing Willie lead all the time. Let's be real-Mike and Rob are the best singers...can we hear more of them? Also, I know why Q isn't on a lot of leads, but he's got a unique sound that adds variety to the group. My opinions upon the first listen are:

1. Just Getting Started- this is terrible. I couldn't even listen to the whole song. Terrible. They shouldn't have ever started with that one.

2. Imma Put it On Her- Obviously it's tight and my favorite so far. It woulda been better w/o 'Ciroq Obama' thoguh. Honestly I could've done w/o Yung Joc too.

3. Shawty Wats up? - Are you serious? Day 26 wussup? This song would've been better w/o T-Pain. T-Pain is much better with rappers than other singers who sing better than him.

4. Think of Me- Nice song. I like this a lot. Classic R&B....would've sounded better if Q had the 1st verse though.

5. Stadium Music- Nice one. Of course-all the leaked ones are.

6. BiPolar- Was this an experiment? It failed. The writing is REALLY bad on this one.

7. Perfectly Blind-Mike and Rob should be the only ones on this track. Otherwise the song is whack-I feel like they tried too hard.

8. So Good- Hot track.

9. Girlfriend-It's just OK. I don't like the writing in this song.

10. Babymaker- Good song. Gosh Rob kills tracks. He should've been the lead on this.

11. Then There's You- Boring. Nice melody, but Ne-yo woulda been better on it.

12. Need That-I actually like this other than Jermaine Dupri's random part.

13. Reminds Me of You- I like it. It's pretty.

14. Your Heels- LOVE IT! Q on the hook was great. Great cohesiveness.

15. Truth is a Lie- Good Song.

*16. One Nite Only (ITUNES BONUS)...Great song. Should've been on the album from the beginning.

Overall, I give it a 2.5/5. The other one was better in my opinion, but the songs sound cleaner production wise on this one. The songs on the last album that were good were REALLY good. These good ones are just good, but not really great. This is a decent album, but there's not a whole lot of songs that pop like the first one. I prefer the R&B sound on the last one. Next time I recommend less Willie and more Mike. The cd picked up after track #7.

Forever in a Day is an excellent cd.I did take me a while before I bought their new cd just because I didn't know what kind of sound they were going to have and thier first album had me in such a daze(i was in love)i didn't think it could of gotten any better and I was so wrong.Forever in a day is HOT!!If you don't have this cd and you like Day 26 then you need to get this album A.S.A.P

1)JUST GETTING STARTED:It wasn't my favorite song because it just dosen't seem like a Day 26 song.I get the reason for putting it on the cd because it's like a new sound,their just getting started on a new project become even bigger artist so the song makes sense but I usually skip it.

2)IMMA PUT IT ON HER:This is a major club song.I'm a big time party girl(just turned 21)and I hear this song all the time.It's hot and it just makes you want to grab a guy and start dancing.

3)SHAWTY WATS UP:Good song but they all had T-Pain fever(LOL)on this track.They have the auto tone on their voices but it still sound good.

4)THINK OF ME:This song had to grow on me.When I first heard it,I didn't like it so much.After a few plays I found myself singing it in the car and at work.

5)STADIUM MUSIC:This one was always a favorite of mine since I first heard it on Making the Band 4.I love the beat and it kinda has that rock vide to it.The video on the other hand dosen't do the song justice.You could tell it was something they just rushed to put together and was low budget all the way.

6)BIPOLAR:My boyfriend is obsessed with this song(it reminds him of me...which is not funny)I like the song but everytime I hear it I imagine my boyfriend singing it to me so it's funny.

7)PERFECTLY BLIND:To slow for me but they sound awsome.I just don't care for it much.My best friend loves the song so I guess this one all depends on you,this song shows their talent to the fullest.

8)SO GOOD:Hot&Sexy.Nothing more to say.The song it hot,the video is even hotter.Will is doing a De'Angelo...OMG!It look like he has no pants on at all.Love it

9)GIRLFRIEND:I always skip to this song first and then play the others after.This song is really good.(Good Video)

10)BABYMAKER:Sex,Sex,Sex,and more Sex.Thats how this song makes me feel.The flow and the beat of the song is excellent.The name goes perfect with the song and Que kills it on the vocals.It's a HOT song.

11)THEN THERE'S YOU:I don't know one person(guy or girl)that dosen't like this song.It's awsome.This song is made for any special person in your life and it's not like some slow,mushy,i love you baby song either.

12)NEED THAT:Club song for sure.It's fast and sexy.It kind of has a Justin Timberlake feel to it but it's still good.It makes you want to dance.

13)REMINDS ME OF YOU:This is an OK song.It's nothing special.I rather hear this song on replay then Right There ft Danity Kane from their first album.

14)YOUR HEELS:Cute song.It's totally a girly girls song.This is like a song to play when you and your girls are in the house getting ready to go to the club.

15)TRUTH IS A LIE:#1 song on this album.I LOOOOOVE it!!Brian rocks this song.He makes the song hot.His voice just kills it and I love the video.Will is doing his thing too oh and let me not foget Que getting real church like at the end,you could tell he was feeling this song.It's a good way to end the cd.

I loved this CD. It wasnt as good as the first one, but it's still great. They are all truly talented singers. I fell in love with Robert's voice when he was on the show auditioning and he's only gotten better. I hope that unlike a lot of Bad Boy groups, they stay together.

Favorites

Think of Me
Perfectly Blind
Babymaker

I have to say that i disagree with the majority of the Reviews here. I was one of the few that enjoyed the first Day26 cd. I still jam it from time to time. However, this cd they changed it up and the final product was a let down. This is a talented group! & i know they have the ability to make a really good album but this wasn't it. If I was a teen/young adult maybe i would have enjoyed it. (I am a 28 year old that enjoys 'most' boy groups of old..(ie: BoyzIIMen, 112, Jodeci, etc..)
This cd is full of sub-par to Average songs. Most were borderline annoying after one minute. The ONLY track that stood out was "Perfectly Blind". My advice is to buy that song/MP3 only. Dont waste $$ on the whole cd.

I like this album. This album is a collective effort. They have grown artistically and personally. This album is about them making great music in general. They have collaborated with Blaze, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Jazze Pha. The group have worked their personal experiences into the songwriting. They explored this album with thoughtful lyrics and serious issues making one thing clear: They attack the club on this album. While maintaining an emphasis on moving vocals, They have expanded the sound with undeniable club bangers. They are five different guys from different cities, but at the end of the day, they are more like brothers. I hope this album sells better than the 2008 debut.