Amerie “In Love & War” Full Album Review!
I was expecting a mess but got an album that should be titled “The Vindication of Amerie”!!!
It’s a great album, filled with production from small time producers and lyrics by writers no one knows. Somehow she turned out something brilliant and refreshing.
The Track List:
1. Tell Me You Love Me
2. Heard Em all
3. Dangerous
4. Higher
5. Why R U
6. Pretty Brown ft Trey Songz
7. More Then Love ft Fabolous
8. Swing Back
9. You’re A Star
10. Red Eye
11. The Flowers
12. Different People
13. Dear John
14. Heard Em All Remix ft Lil Wayne
The highlighted tracks above are the reasons Def Jam signed her in the first place.
Amerie is her best at her roots, which is in r&b. She can do the urban dance pop thing too, the Beyonce thing but she’s gonna have to get bigger names, stronger producers if she wants to really slay that genre.
“Pretty Brown” and “Different People” are my favorite songs but alas neither is a single, which is why this album is gonna debut so low and shift so few records it’s first week.
This is how the singles should have played:
1. Different People
2. Pretty Brown
3. More Then Friends
4. Why R U
5. Heard Em All Remix ft Lil Wayne
Releasing what should have been the last two singles as the first two is proving to be a HUGE mistake as I said months ago… Those songs aren’t strong enough to create buzz! Who ever is choosing singles for Def Jam’s females needs to sit down and not get up until I say so. I hope it’s not L.A Reid (Rihanna and Mariah Carey are suffering for the same reason)
The album as a whole isn’t as listenable as I’d like nor are her vocals stellar; for that reason she won’t walk away from this review with a 4…
Overall this is a solid album that is gonna go unappreciated due to her management’s decisions. Amerie is vindicated at this point but not yet emancipated. She delivered with this album but the people in control need to be checked!
TrueClefMusic Rating: 3.50 out 5
November 11, 2009 at 3:35 AM
HEYYYYYY U DIDNT HIGHLIGHT HIGHER OR WHY R U LOL my 2 fav songs on the album….
November 11, 2009 at 3:40 AM
Lol, it seems like we never like the same songs. “Why R U” is coo, shoulda been the alst single but ” Higher” is just ok… Those 5 songs will put her where she needs to be, especially the track with Trey Songz…
November 12, 2009 at 4:07 AM
LOL i like the songs u like off these album n e way. but yea i agree with u about having her 1st two singles as her last 2
November 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM
All in all she gets a good 3.50. I like it, the overall success is gonna depend on her next single and how strong the video is. Mariah and Rihanna are gonna suck up the bulk of promo coins…