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Discussion: Winner revealed! | My Goodies: Ciara Essentials
Member Since: 1/1/2013
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I know like none of those goodies tracks so this should be fun.
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Originally posted by MP2K
She just should have never recorded Girls Get Your Money.
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No no no! NO!
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by getback
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so many fillers
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Participating in this rate really sparked motivation in me to start dancing again (a perfect way lose the baby weight)
Some of these songs, the nostalgia 
Me and the girls slayed That's Right when it came out
C.R.U.S.H better at least make Top 20 
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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Originally posted by wesleywalrus
When are they due? Imma listen to ha whole discography tomorrow
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June 27, but the sooner the better 
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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6 rates so far 
I'm sure results will change but so far a few are very... interesting 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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You can expect rates at some point after the 19th, most probably, because then my exams are out of the way. 
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
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Oh my rankings/opinions are changing up with this new method I'm doing to rate.
The top 10 really needs to consist of Balladara
Keep Dancin’ On Me, DUI, So Hard, & I Run It 
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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Originally posted by conatus
You can expect rates at some point after the 19th, most probably, because then my exams are out of the way. |
No worries Good luck on your exams!
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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Originally posted by MP2K
Oh my rankings/opinions are changing up with this new method I'm doing to rate.
The top 10 really needs to consist of Balladara
Keep Dancin’ On Me, DUI, So Hard, & I Run It |
I kinda agree
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Member Since: 9/6/2012
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A new blog post from a music journalist:
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Deep Album Cuts Vol. 40: Ciara
Ciara is not someone I ever really expected to have a catalog that I respect, but with the release last month of her 6th album, Jackie, she's really getting there. When she debuted a decade ago, she seemed like a classic singles artist who'd only ever be good for the occasional radio jam. But then she dropped a really impressive follow-up album, Ciara: The Evolution. And then she's been in varying states of career limbo since then, releasing four albums from which only "Body Party" has really emerged as something remotely as big or enduring as the hits from her first two albums.
That her last few albums have had a lot of unsuccessful and/or outright bad singles, while the albums themselves have been fairly consistent suggests one thing: a lot of good deep cuts and woefully neglected would-be hits. I wouldn't say she'd be a much bigger artist if she'd released some of these songs as singles, but she might have a better rep if she'd picked them over dogs like "Go Girl" and "I'm Out" and "Like A Surgeon" and ok I'll stop, I've made my point.
Ciara Deep Album Cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Bang It Up
2. Kiss & Tell
3. Hotline
4. Pick Up The Phone
5. You Can Get It
6. That's Right (featuring Lil Jon)
7. Tell Me What Your Name Is
8. I Don't Remember
9. C.R.U.S.H.
10. Girls Get Your Money
11. Next To You
12. Where You Go (featuring Future)
13. My Love
14. Lover's Thing (featuring The-Dream)
15. Ooh Baby
16. Addicted
17. Yeah I Know
18. Dance Like We're Making Love
19. Make It Last Forever
20. Read My Lips
21. One Woman Army
Tracks 3, 4, 11 and 15 from Goodies (2004)
Tracks 1, 6, 9 13, 16 and 19 from Ciara: The Evolution (2006)
Tracks 7, 8 and 14 from Fantasy Ride (2009)
Tracks 5, 10 and 15 from Basic Instinct (2011)
Tracks 12 and 20 from Ciara (2013)
Tracks 2, 18 and 21 from Jackie (2015)
Ciara does two things really well: athletically propulsive dance tracks and sultry ballads. I never thought the latter would be possible when her first album came out, but then came "Promise," my #1 R&B single of the 2000s. She's not a terribly forceful singer or personality, but she does just fine when she stays in those two comfort zones.
Given Ciara's charming, vaguely earnest blank slate persona, her records tend to rise and fall on the strength and compatibility of her collaborators. And she's made deep cuts with some of the same people who helped make her biggest hits, so you get things like "That's Right," a Lil Jon track I like more than "Goodies," or "Where You Go," a song with Future that foreshadowed the current state of their relationship better than "Body Party," and several The-Dream-penned songs that are much better than "Ride," and Polow Da Don tracks like "Bang It Up" that make a good uptempo companion to "Promise." There are also people she's only worked on album tracks with, like R. Kelly ("Next To You"), Bangladesh ("Hotline"), and Ne-Yo ("I Don't Remember"). I'm also really fond of the unjustly dismissed new album Jackie, which has some Dr. Luke tracks that suit her surprisingly well.
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An interesting post, but he lost me forever when he included "Girls Get Your Money" on this playlist when he had so many better options (literally every other Ciara song is better than GGYM).
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
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I'm about to send.
So according to my averages:
Fantasy Ride > Ciara > Jackie > Basic Instinct > The Evolution > Goodies
But it was really the bonus cuts from her debut and sophomore that brought those down. With singles and nostalgia included it would probably be like: Fantasy Ride > Ciara > The Evolution > Goodies > Jackie > Basic Instinct
I STILL don’t know about Jackie… I don't hate anything at all but it’s like a totally different artist once you get to ha. 
And the Unreleased has its highs and lows of course.
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Member Since: 1/8/2012
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I don't have the patience for these things anymore, but I'll be perched for the results.
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Member Since: 3/30/2011
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I haven't even heard most of these unreleased songs.
Let me get started on my list. I want to listen to the songs again so that I can give accurate rates since I haven't listened to some in a while. 
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Member Since: 3/30/2011
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Woo, I already feel like I'm going to be so biased.
I just love Ci so much.
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Member Since: 3/30/2011
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Like Thug Style is slaying my life and brings back so many memories already and it's the first song on the rate.
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
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I'm still crying at that Diva remix being included.
I loved the Hard In The Paint though, but had to rate it low too.
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Member Since: 3/30/2011
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Woo the drop after Ooh Baby on Goodies.
Edit: btw, Marvin, the youtube link to The Title links to And I.
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Member Since: 1/20/2012
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Originally posted by Exotic
I don't have the patience for these things anymore, but I'll be perched for the results.
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It doesn't take that much to do it 
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Once I get more familiar with her earlier albums i'll send my rates.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I've rated all the album tracks, but I have to get into the other tracks now and I haven't heard some of them in years, so it'll be harder 
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