| Kelly Rowland
Forever And A Day
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I just LOVE Kelly. She's without of doubt my favorite girl from DC3. She can sing, she can dance, she's a sweetheart, she has a wonderful and powerful voice. What's she lacking? Decent label support maybe? I don't know. She has good songs. She's getting some hits overseas, and I honestly just hope she'll get a hit in the US soon, she deserves it. FAAD is definitely the weakest song she's released from this era, but I still like it.
1st of 4 Kelly Rowland's. |
| Monica
Everything To Me
Still Standing
This was like only the second era from Monica that I had contact with and it was a pleasute. Everything To Me was a nice throwback to classic R&B from the 80s or 90s. IDK when. ETM took some time to grow on me, and it's not a big masterpíece, but it's still a nice song.
1st of 2 Monica's |
| Sandy
Pés Cansados
Manuscrito
Sandy was probably my favorite Brazilian artist like 10-15 years ago. For the first time ever apart from her old-time collaborator, brother Júnior, and for the first solo material, she's finally doing something she actually wanted to do. From a bubblegum pop artist, Sandy went to a more accoustic popish sound, and first single Pés Cansados was a great way to welcome this new Sandy to the country. This song is great, and for the first time, I could feel some emotion on what she's singing. |
| Boys Like Girls
Heart Heart Heartbreak
Love Drunk
I've always judged these popish rock bands whose strongest tool isn't even their music, but their beauty because they are aimed at like 14-year-old teenage girls in order to make them fall in love with the guys, live their dreamy crushes, and, this way, they can mannipulate them and make them stan for them so they can stay relevant because their music is crap. To be completely honest, I don't even think that BLG is different from that pattern, but I gotta admit this song is so damn catchy. |
| Ciara
Gimmie Dat
Basic Instinct
Oh Cici, Cici. What am I gonna do with you? Where's the Goodies Cici at? Wasn't this album supposed to bring that Ciara back? I just don't see it. If Gimmie Dat was supposed to be an attempt to recreate 1, 2 Step, it failed miserably. This song is nice and I do like it, but it's just nothing special, it's not the kinda song that'll get incredibly stuck to my head and make me want to put it on repeat, listen over and over again.
1st of 3 Ciara's. |