John Legend - Once Again
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Artist: John LegendBrand: Columbia
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 2006-10-19
CD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Music Label: G.O.O.D. MUSIC/ Sony Urban Music/ Columbia
Product features:
- John Legend - Once Again (standard U.s. Album)
- Save Room
- Heaven
- Stereo
- Show Me
- Each Day Gets Better
- P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)
- Slow Dance
- Again
- Maxine
- Where Did My Baby Go
- Maxine's Interlude
- Another Again
- Coming Home
Free Music Notes for Once Again
Free Music Review: No it's not "Get Lifted" but John Legend shows "Once Again" why he belongs in the r&b/soul game.
Hit: 5 Stars
Once Kanye West formed G.O.O.D. Music, which means Getting Out On Our Dreams, there were 2 main components: Common and John Legend. John Legend had already done work with Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys and others but no one knew what kind of work he could do by himself on a solo CD. John was also known for his work on Kanye's debut CD, "College Dropout", especially "Jesus Walks" and on his hook for the Slum Village and Kanye West featured, "Selfish". Once I heard John Legend's 1st single from his debut CD, "Get Lifted", entitled "Used To Love U", I knew that John had a classic on his hands. Kanye West produced the majority of the CD with help from Will I Am and others and from tracks 1-14 you could hear the hunger in John's voice as he tried to prove that he belonged in this music game just like anyone else. My favorite tracks ended up being "Let's Get Lifted", "Alright", "I Can Change" w/Snoop Dogg, "Live It Up" and eventhough the radio wore these 2 songs in the ground, "Ordinary People" and "So High".
This time around, John Legend is back with his 2nd CD, "Once Again". Now I have to admit the first time I heard "Save Room", I wasn't too sure what to think of the track only because it was like nothing that was on "Get Lifted". However, after a few listens of the Will I Am and John Legend track the song will definitely grow on you. To some fans of "Get Lifted" that will be the theme of "Once Again", tracks trying to grow on you. However, in my opinion, it's not as bad as some reviewers will make you think. One of the best moments on "Once Again" is clearly the Kanye West and John Legend produced 2nd single, "Heaven". Kanye West and John Legend create the same magic that was created on his debut CD as Kanye comes up with a clever sample and John is able to express his feelings about a particular woman that he is no longer with by saying that God is the only one that knows what future that him and this particular woman may have. "Heaven" is my favorite track from this CD so far. I've never heard John Legend as dark as I have on "Show Me". Raphael Saadiq and his long time collaborator(s), Jake & The Phatman produce an eerie, creepy track for John Legend to talk about a woman that he was with who he hasn't spoken to in weeks. What I like about this track is that it is different than anything that I have heard John do. I like an artist that isn't afraid to take chances. Will I Am and John Legend collaborate again on the feel good track, "Each Day Gets Better". This midtempo track definitely has a 70's old school feel to it and the track is put together very well as John and Will display the same chemistry as they did on "She Don't Have To Know" and on "Ordinary People" from "Get Lifted". John Legend shows what I think is his true side on "P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)". John Legend's song writing on this track is incredible as he describes a situation where he doesn't mind showing public displays of affection to his woman. It doesn't matter if it's at her mother's house, the park or any place that they can be seen by total strangers. "Again" is Once Again's "Ordinary People" as John Legend seems as if he composes a track about being with a woman that is married or a woman that he knows is with a man or has a boyfriend. At the same time, it seems as if John is also in another situation and that both parties are guilty of being unfaithful. As the situation gets too deep John wants to end things but he keeps getting pulled back in again and again. "Maxine" is borderline jazz and he talks about a woman that appears to look the same as a woman he has dealt with before. I hate to keep running this in the ground but the songwriting on "Once Again" is an A+. "Where Did My Baby Go" falls along the same lines but in this situation John is trying to figure out why things got complicated when a friendship turns into a relationship and one party can't handle the way that things are going. The interlude to "Maxine" is pretty good but it would have been better served if the interlude was actually before the actual song. "Another Again" serves as a remix to the track "Again" and after you hear this track you'll wish that Kanye and John would have worked on more than just 2 tracks on this CD. John is back in his I know it's wrong but it feels so right mode as he is just extending the same dialogue as he was doing on the original track. "Coming Home" is a very inspirational track that speaks about all the useless fighting and war that has been going on overseas for the past couple of years. Will I Am and John Legend put together a track that will have alot of people feeling very emotional if they have loved ones fighting overseas and serving our country. "Out Of Sight" is another feel good track that has John telling his woman to let go of the Monday-Friday work stress and let's just go out and have a good time by partying and coming home late.
Overall, I will agree with the reviewers that say that "Once Again" isn't "Get Lifted", because it isn't. However, that doesn't mean that it's a bad thing. As far as we know, John could have just wanted to make a CD and not have as much input or production work from Kanye. Some people were saying that Kanye made "Get Lifted" a classic and John may have wanted to prove the nonbelievers wrong. His songwriting is definitely on point and as he stated himself, when he was making this CD he already had went double platinum. He wasn't going through the same struggles this time around that he was going through when he was creating "Get Lifted". This means that the CD in itself will be different. Don't get me wrong I would have loved more Kanye produced tracks but that doesn't take away from the overall quality of this CD. John Legend has done it once again.
James' Top 6
1) Heaven
2) Another Again
3) P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)
4) Where Did My Baby Go
5) Each Day Gets Better
6) Show Me
Once Again Poster
OtherIt takes guts, if not outright egomania, to abandon your given surname and adopt a loaded one like Legend, but the former John Stephens must have sensed that loftiness would one day be his calling card: Once Again, the follow-up to the Grammy-gobbling, platinum pile-on that was Get Lifted, surpasses expectations. Not that it bears much relation to its predecessor. Again again trots out a stable of talented, modern-minded producers--Raphael Saadiq, Legend comrade Kanye West, and the unsinkable will.i.am--but it's nowhere near as self-conscious about embracing the old-school as the knowing, R&B edge-skimming Lifted. Don't expect a derivative mash of smudgy, nostalgia-filching sounds, though, because despite its retro leanings, what's in store somehow crackles with currency. Call it neo-retro if you must, but never call it unimaginative: first single "Save Room" coasts, drifts, and floats along a ponderous path spiked by a cool keyboard-y crescendo; second single "Heaven" busts out a big, busy beat over a slow seduction; and a couple of selections--"Each Day Gets Better" and "PDA"--are so bright and twirly they seem custom-made for dizzy love scenes or jaunty, sunny-day skips through the park. Maybe the most unusual track is "Show Me," a rock song that pilfers elements of Hendrix and finds Legend climbing a few octaves to sound, weirdly, like Jeff Buckley, but it works: so slippery is its beat and so affecting are its hope-laced lyrics that, oddness aside, it's among the disc's best. Sandwiched as it is among 14 songs that all sound like future classics, that's saying something. --Tammy La Gorce
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