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| Artistdirect |
 latinum-selling recording artist Deborah Cox returns with her first new studio album in six years, The Promise, to be released in November. The album marks the former Clive Davis protege's return to the world of R&B, where her hit song Nobody's Supposed to Be Here, broke the record for the longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Led by the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Big Jim Wright-produced first single, Did You Ever Love Me the poignant, soulful slow-burning R&B song is a reflection on a relationship that has just ended....full text |
| Yahoo |
| Deborah Cox, "The Promise" (Deco Recording Group/Image Entertainment) Deborah Cox should think twice about making promises she can't keep. Her fifth studio CD, "The Promise," is mediocre at best and features overused lyrics and average production. Though she dabbled in jazz with a Dinah Washington tribute record in 2007, "The Promise" is the R&B follow-up to 2002's "The Morning After," and the new CD shows that Cox has not grown musically in the last six years. The set of 10 tracks begin with the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis-produced "Love Is Not Made In Words," a boring tune that has Cox complaining that she's "heard it all before." So have listeners. The 35-year-old questions her man's love on the dragging "Did You Ever Love Me" and has her man's back on "Down 4 U." Even the title track, written and produced by John Legend, is dull. What's most disappointing though is that Cox, who once played the title role of "Aida" on Broadway, fails to utilize her trademark — her powerful voice....full text |
| Reflector |
| Deborah Cox, “The Promise” (Deco Recording Group/Image Entertainment) Deborah Cox should think twice about making promises she can't keep. Her fifth studio CD, “The Promise,” is mediocre at best and features overused lyrics and average production. Though she dabbled in jazz with a Dinah Washington tribute record in 2007, “The Promise” is the R&B follow-up to 2002's “The Morning After,” and the new CD shows that Cox has not grown musically in the last six years. The set of 10 tracks begin with the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis-produced “Love Is Not Made In Words,” a boring tune that has Cox complaining that she's “heard it all before.” So have listeners. The 35-year-old questions her man's love on the dragging “Did You Ever Love Me” and has her man's back on “Down 4 U.” Even the title track, written and produced by John Legend, is dull....full text |
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