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Ashanti | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: October 14, 2008
• Label: AJM Records
• Copyright: (c) 2008 AJM Records
• Genres: R&B/Soul
• ASIN: B001HDXA42
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,109 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Slamming, Soaring, Smashing Album!, July 31, 2011

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This review is from: Vault (Audio CD)

This is the Japanese 17-track Import featuring 5 Bonus tracks, beautiful lyrical booklet with pink lettering and glossy finish artwork. It's packed with catchy songs, laid back R&B grooves, fast, and mid tempos styles along Ashanti's rich "new" sound. The musical production is very "new" with more bounce, rhythms, and extreme appeal. This is an extraordinary album from a very underrated artist.

The first few songs are presented with a nice rhythm-and-blues vibe to make a candle light fantasy of love pretty and desirable. "Let's Do Something Crazy" feat. Flo Rida brings a featured artist to the listening. It's got a very catchy style with heavy bass-lines, rap, hip-hop, and even crunk. It's dance friendly and club hot. "Pretty Little Flower" feat. J Star of F.A.M. has references to wanting to be treated nicely like a delicate flower. J Star's thuggish turn at his singing is nice with references to being like a teddy bear. All the songs are great making it no fillers or boring bland styles to skip. The dance up-tempo, "Satisfy" has accelerated fast forward up-tempo vocals, electronica and references to asking her lover if he can satisfy? It's a self-assured Ashanti stating that if he's incapable he's got to go. Catchy songs include "Girls In The Movies" thus bringing the sing along vibe along great fantasy elements referring to "I want to be like those girls in the movies/To have a man so in love it makes him drop to his knees...". "To The Club" is the story-line of guys flirting in the club, buying a drink for the girl, as she sings, "I can't help it if I kinda wanna flirt/And I'm not mad cuz I'm only having fun/You see I can't bring my man to the club...". "Mrs. So So" is for the confident individual who doesn't settle for being with a guy who's not it: "Where were you when I was all alone/See I don't need you now I'm standing on my own/When I was down you weren't around so go/Cause I ain't use to being no ones Mrs So So..." Once again, Ashanti gives a "on your face" attitude definitely appealing.

The bonus tracks are a plus for sure! They are these: "Summertime" feat. J Star of F.A.M., "Gotta Get Out (Remix)", "Gotta Get Out", "To The Club" (Kidd Kold Re-Mix), and "Let's Do Something Crazy" feat. Flo Rida (DJ Komori Remix). The first one, "Summertime" feat. J Star of F.A.M. has claps, catchy hooks and chorus plus smooth gliding R&B vibes--singing by Ashanti electronica soft flowing, while the music has much bounce. The rap by J Star is crunk, hip-hop and full of funk! He goes *wild* with his rhymes as the electronica enhanced Ashanti kicks in between. The second bonus, "Gotta Get Out (Remix)" has rich-fully sung vocals by Ashanti unlike the previous along more mid-tempos. Her pitch has a nice deep style not heard on her previous albums. There's claps, bounce, and up-tempos at times. Electronica is used once again at times intensifying the dance moods. The third bonus, "Gotta Get Out" is a piano intro with more laid back grooves similar to the previous but more laid back. The fourth bonus, "To The Club (Kidd Kold Re-Mix)" is a slight variation to the 12th track with more party, dance, instrumentation-al additions --definitely club friendly yet not over the top or diverse to the extreme. The fifth bonus, "Let's Do Something Crazy" Feat. Flo Rida (DJ Komori Remix) is 4 + minutes of hip-hop, dance funk sure to satisfy dance fans, hip-hop lovers, and R&B junkies.