Foolish [SINGLE] [IMPORT]

Ashanti

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: AMI Records
• ASIN: B000066HW3
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #346,479 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Foolish

2. Foolish

3. Foolish

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Aussie edition of the #1 single off the R&B star's #1 debut album & 2002 release, 'Ashanti'. Tracks, 'Foolish' & three non-LP tracks, 'Foolish' (Radio Edit, Instrumental & CD-ROM Video).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth Your Money!, June 23, 2002

By	Kandy (Home of the Lost World) - See all my reviews

If you want to hear Ashanti's "Foolish" just turn on a radio; do not spend more than a cent on a song that is played 10,000 times a day. Ashanti's singing is bearable compared to the wonders (wonder as to how they nabbed a recording contract) on the radio today, but it is not outstanding. Her light, straightforward lyrics sound like her diary entries or poems teens scribble in notebooks while daydreaming about their crush. Her music is manufactured, radio-friendly R&B but she holds promise considering that she at least writes her songs.

Everyone has been saying that she sampled Biggie's "One More Chance" but Biggie's song, which was produced by famous sampler Puffy, got its score from Debarge's "Stay With Me". "Foolish" sampled a sample! Enough said.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Only Thing Foolish Was Not To Include Any Extras., June 15, 2002

By	ViBrAnT vOiCE 17 (MD) - See all my reviews

The 10-week-straight #1 smash on the US Billboard charts is now going all around the world, I see, though the USA gets first dibs on all the singles. After tying with the Beatles for most top ten singles at one time, and debuting at #1 with her solo effort, we get this.

It's Foolish. Not just the song, but the CD too.

Radio edit and album version on one CD? I never could notice the difference, but it's filler material, and that's pretty much essential in today's modern R&B Discs.

The great thing here is the instrumental version, which most of us would probably like, you and one million other wanna-be Ashanti's. She's the next big thing and there's no escaping it, but where's the bonus tracks we need from people like her? Maybe a remix? An unreleased track? Forget this, go get the album, which is also a 3-star CD.

GRADE: C-
BOTTOM LINE: All the things that we accept, be the things that we regret...that's a lyric. That's the truth.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Foolish? No Doubt!, June 20, 2002

By	The Groove (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I was listening to this jam at some trendy hip hop club a few months back. It threw me off balance, because I thought it was Biggie Small's "One More Chance." I was like, "when do we hear Biggie, and who's that girl singing?" Turns out that it wasn't a Biggie song at all, but rather a single by Ashanti, who has come off the hype machine with a very sucessful album and single. Unfortunately, while Ashanti can sorta sing, "Foolish" is a bust because it practically borrows (steals?) the entire track "One More Chance." That's originality? I don't mind sampling, but c'mon! Give me an edge. And don't get me started about the lyrics. R&B has taken such a downward spiral these days. But I don't blame Ashanti; I blame the diabolical hype machine that keeps churning out garbage like this.