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24.4.09

First impressions of the new Ciara album...

It is basically a very listenable but overproduced MESS. It is, however, more memorable than the Keri Hilson album/debacle.

There's a lyric on the amazing/terrible "Like A Surgeon" that goes: "My love's like anaesthesia".

What? It puts one into a deep, numb sleep? Christ!

Overall, in a post-GaGa pop landscape it's quite hard to fall for someone quite so anodyne. We are sure Ciara is a LOVELY LOVELY girl but she's hardly brimming with 'outrageous' personality. Her voice is far from distinctive (and often annoying) and the tracks seem to all melt together to form one enormously long uptempo slow jam. You find yourself paying more attention to the backing track than the actual vocals, which is NOT a good thing at all.

It's not 'bad', but it's not particularly 'good' either.

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