Just look at the single “You Changed Me” - Boi-1da and Vinylz’s production is top-notch, but the cliched subject matter - girl, you make me wanna settled down, for realz dis time! - brings nothing new to the table.įoxx’s vocals sound pretty good among the finger snaps and light bongos of “Text Message” but hearing a nearly 50-year-old man croon with sincerity about how “I’m a loveaholic” gets grating. Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses, Foxx’s fifth album, occasionally gives glimpses of the good ol’ days, but it’s firmly rooted in the present.Īnd that means it suffers from the same ups (great production) and downs (horrible songwriting) that hinder most mainstream R&B on today’s radio stations. Foxx’s first album, Peep This, landed in 1994, in the midst of R&B’s last great era. Real music heads know that Foxx has been on the music scene long before he sang that wedding song to Fancy on The Jamie Foxx Show. It’s long been Jamie Foxx’s MO, an artist who loves to bridge the gap between R&B and pop’s roots and the 21st century sound. How would a Michael Jackson “PYT” remake sound over a DJ Mustard beat? Thanks to Jamie Foxx, we get one of life’s great mysteries answered: Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (to be released May 18.
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