Lover in Me

Sheena Easton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002PIC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,233 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Confession Of A Traitor (or Trader)..., August 4, 2000

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Armando M. Mesa (Chandler, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lover in Me (Audio CD)

I regret having traded in this c.d years ago at a used c.d. shop. But first, listen to the reasoning: It was the late 80's and pop, dance- R & B music was starting to lose it's shine and become stale; There was a multitude of Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Madonna commercialized wannabes. By no means was Sheena Easton a novice singer; She was in the music business with genuine talent long before Paula or Madonna. Also, The Lover in Me was right before the major hip-hop,alternative,grunge, techno, whatever movement. There were so many Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson clones that even a genuine artist like Easton would get lost in the shuffle ! I quickly grew tired of the Lover In Me (despite being an Angela Winbush and Prince fan). The right artist, song material, producers and writers were at hand (Winbush, Baby Face, and Prince)---It was just the wrong timing for some listeners who were already burnt out by the sugar flavored synthesized dance pop music of the 80's...

Is this c.d. worth 5 hills of beans ? In retrospect, YES---Especially when our brains, eyes, ears, are bombarded with the new trend of repetitive teeny bopper boy bands and sugar coated risque teen "divas" (loosely used term nowadays). It's artists like Sheena Easton who could probably show them how it's really done !

Songs like 101, Fire and Rain, No Deposit, No Return, and Cool were smoldering off of this project with intense atristry and sensuality !

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First-Rate 'Lover', August 16, 2001

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Chris S. "cscotts" (atlanta, ga United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lover in Me (Audio CD)

Possessed of one of the more glorious voices in pop music during the '80s, Sheena Easton was coming off the disappointment of her underwhelming, though musically solid,DO YOU album(as well as lack of release in the states of her NO SOUND BUT A HEART project) when she signed with a new label and released what remains her creative benchmark, THE LOVER IN ME. Beautifully melding pop, R&B, funk, and adult contemporary, it remains her most musically diverse and fully realized project thirteen years later. L.A. and Babyface, in the middle of one of their most successful periods, produced half the album, chief among those tracks being the title cut, as well as 'Days Like This' and 'No Deposit,No Return'. Angela Winbush provides the utterly beautiful 'Without You', as well as one of Easton's most R&B-oriented tracks ever in 'Fire And Rain'. The standout though is the Prince-produced '101', a stunning pop-funk workout that exquisitely showcases Easton's vocal range and remains a creative watermark in her career--it should have been a huge hit. Unfortunately, her record label was MCA, which in case you don't know, ruins careers(see the equally career-maligned Belinda Carlisle and Pebbles for further proof). This should have been a massive crossover album, rather than the mild success it ended up being.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "The Lover In Me" by Sheena Easton (1988), April 2, 2000

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R. Sanchez "Robi Rob" (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lover in Me (Audio CD)

There are not too many white female singers that can pull of what Sheena Easton did with the "The Lover In Me" cd back in 1988. Even when L.A.Reid, Babyface were producing up and coming acts that year with Pebbles, Bobby Brown, and Karyn White, she was the first already established singer that the duo took on taking her career to another level expanding her vocals to the funky beats and groove of R&B and doing quite well on that chart for a white female established singer. In todays music you see this more common but let's give credit where credit is due for this multi talanted 2 time Grammy Award singer.

Give this album a try and listen to what a strong voice Ms. Easton has on a song like "101" and see why she is a true pop diva...