Macy Gray - The Trouble With Being Myself
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Artist: Macy GrayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-07-15
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- When I See You
- It Ain't The Money
- She Ain't Right For You
- Things That Made Me Change
- Come Together
- She Don't Write Songs About You
- Jesus For A Day
- My Fondest Childhood Memories
- Happiness
- Speechless
- Screamin'
- Every Now And Then
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Free Music Review: The Trouble With Being Funky
Hit: 5 Stars
Not to say that Macy Grey cannot produce a great ballad but this triple threat singer,songwriter and producer just seems so much more at home throwing down her gritty,quirky singing to incredibly funky songs such as the brightly catchy "When I See You","Come Together" and the speedy,horn fueled jazz funk extravaganza of the closing "Every Now And Then".She also gets a little reflective on the midtempo funky soul groove "She Don't Write Songs About You".Unfortunately this albums loses a lot of steam especially in the case of "It Ain't The Money" which Macy totally spoils in an effort to "reach the youth market of 2003" by adding a clever but contrived rap by Pharoahe Monch;Macy Gray has more then enough ability to stand on her own without the presense of rappers and this is made no more clear then on her lastest (and somewhat superior) album Big.The rest of the album is good but points out Macy's other slight flaw of trying to be too musically diverse and eclectic.Considering her freakish persona,borrowing heavily from her 70's counterpart Betty Davis Macy sounds very good on the ska inflected "My Fondest Childhood Memories" and the too beat heavy string ballad "Jesus For A Day" but are just too bogged down by her ambition rather then having it be a help to her sound.Sadly the rest of the remaining songs on this album (again) focus on hip-hop beats "for the kids" (to quoate Miles Davis referring to his very Macy Gray-sounding classic On the Corner) and soul balladeering trying hard to replicate the sound of her breakthrough hit "I Try" from five years earlier.So four classics out of twelve isn't bad and nothing on this album is truely awful.But fans totally intolerant of contempory-hip hop-disguised-as-retro R&B might want to steer clearly.Otherwise a potent musical experience awaits you.
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