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Debuts at #20 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums.
134 EVANS*TIFFANY TIFFANY EVANS 48 4,651 NR 4,713
Published: 05.01.2008
CD Review: Tiffany Evans
MELANIE SIMS
The Associated Press
Tiffany Evans is young. Her youth only emphasized by having 22-year-old Ciara as a mentor and just-legal label mate Bow Wow as a self-professed big brother. Evans' vocal maturity, on the other hand, reaches beyond her 15 years, and it's the contrast between her sound and her age that make the teenager remarkable.
The girl's got pipes. Even on the uptempo first single "Promise Ring," Evans' vocals hint at the 10-year-old "Star Search" contestant she once was (you can check the child Evans out on YouTube, covering "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" with all the precision, force and showmanship of a 25-year-old).
Since then, Evans' style has gone less in the direction of Jennifer Holliday and more in the vein of Beyoncé. She's backed by funky, drum-laden tracks produced by The Clutch and Rodney Jerkins.
Her self-titled debut has the shiny, pop-friendly sound popular among her peers. And it's that group and those younger that Evans seems to be addressing on "Girl Gone Wild," in which she urges the "private school girl with your skirt rolled up" to take it down a notch.
Evans' CD is age-appropriate. It's a mix of mid-tempo and slow-moving songs covering all the phases of young love, from daydreaming about the guy ("Thinkin' About") to pondering a break-up ("Can't Walk Away"). The teenager may sing about adulthood on the anthemlike second single "I'm Grown," featuring Bow Wow, but it seems she's left herself plenty of room to grow.
Genre: R&B
Grade: A-
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