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AMERIE - Because I Love It
| Times Online | Despite avoiding a conventional tune, Amerie’s 2005 hit 1 Thing was catchy enough to have governments stockpiling vaccine against it. Things appeared to have dwindled for her since but her third album marks her return with more of the hair-shaking, face-slapping attitude that made that single so addictive.
Because I Love It starts out at fever pitch and never calms down. Whether strutting through the earthy funk of Make Me Believe or hurling herself with Prince-style abandon at Hate2loveu and Take Control, Amerie carves out her own spot in a crowded market....full text |
| | AllHipHop.com | | Blah, blah, marketing budgets, blah, blah illegal downloading, blah, blah fickle consumers. We’re all familiar with the various excuses artists and labels use to explain away poor album sales. Of course, if you ask most consumers, they usually tell you that most CDs just aren’t worth their money. True or not, this makes it all the more frustrating when a deserving artist doesn’t get label support for her efforts. Such is the case with Amerie’s Because I Love It (Sony/BMG/Columbia), which has recently been released in Europe and Asia but currently has no American release date. Whatever the logic behind the decision, the album’s quality can’t be a part of it....full text |
| | Guardian | | It would be no exaggeration to call Amerie one of the greatest singers in pop music. Her vocal performances are extraordinary: she catches the fleeting thrills and momentary rushes of intensity that permeate otherwise mundane days, and stretches those feelings out across four-minute songs without ever letting up. Every word is delivered as if she is utterly consumed in the moment; the result is heady and intoxicating. On her third album - her first without long-time producer Rich Harrison - she uses that voice to full effect on her most consistently excellent set of songs to date....full text |
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