Monica - The Makings of Me
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Artist: MonicaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Music Label: J-Records
Soundtracks:
- Everytime Tha Beat Drop featuring Dem Franchize Boyz
- A Dozen Roses (You Remind Me)
- Sideline Ho
- Why Her?
- Hell No (Leave Home) featuring Twista
- Doin' Me Right
- Raw featuring Swizz Beatz
- My Everything
- Gotta Move On
- Getaway
Free Music Notes for The Makings of Me
Free Music Review: 3 1/2 stars....with a dozen roses
Hit: 3 Stars
This is Monica's laziest album to date because its duration is just 38.3 minutes, her vocals are average at best, and the lyrics aren't profound enough for me. "The Makings of Me" is still a good album, though. Of the ten tracks, eight of them received 3 ? stars from me. "Everytime the Beat Drops" was the first single released to radio. Jermaine Dupri produced this song, and, while I enjoy and value most of his work, I was left disappointed with this song for I could never get into it. The beat is alright, though. Monica Arnold never has had an all-out bad album, but some of her albums are good and some are very good. Ironically, this album falls in between good and very good.
This album has a very laid-back feel; most of the songs are ballads or mid-tempo. "Getaway" and "A Dozen Roses" are the albums best moments by far, though. When I first took a listen to "A Dozen Roses", I was very impressed because the song had creative lyrics, excellent use of a sample (it samples Curtis Mayfield's song called "The Makings of You", a song that has been redone tons of times), and a catchy beat. When I heard this song, I knew I had to hear the rest of the album. "Sideline H*" is very real lyrically. There are more "sideline h*s than we can shake a stick at. I admire Monica for calling them out because women who continue to sleep with men when they know they have someone else is extremely trifling; these women need to rewind this until they understand the point that Monica is making. The production on "Why Her" definitely sounds like it could be on Mariah Carey's album, "E=MC2." Really, it sounds a lot like a song on that album called "Bye Bye." Further, Monica likes to rap suddenly. It is cute sometimes, but sometimes her "raps" seem out of place and very unnecessary; she's so much more effective when singing. Also, Missy Elliot need not look at Monica's albums as an opportunity to say whatever she feels at the moment. It's such an irritant.
Monica did a nice job this time around with "The Makings of Me." Music listeners, particularly R&B fans should enjoy this album if they love Monica and/or laid back sounds.
Mikeisha's Top 5
1. "A Dozen Roses"
2. "Getaway"
3. "Sideline H*"
4. "My Everything"
5. "Gotta Move On"
The Makings of Me Poster
Few can coo a love song as convincingly as Monica, but The Makings of Me confirms what many have suspected since the ATL-based firebrand lit up the charts with Brandy in 1998: it's when she's digging through the wreckage of a busted-up relationship that she dishes up her best work. Makings, luckily, is littered with liars, cheats, and assorted degenerates--when Monica's not wagging her finger in the face of a "Sideline Ho" ("Ain't you tired of spending all the holidays alone?" she wants to know), she's dismissing the fianc? who dissed her with a brisk, silk-voiced "Hell No." Appealing brassiness aside, Makings benefits from excellent production (Missy Elliot slinks up "Gotta Move On" with Far East flavor and lets flecks of Curtis Mayfield fly on "A Dozen Roses") and a handful of hip-hop luminaries. While the Twista-boasting "Hell No" gives off heat courtesy of the sheer speed of its rap exchange, it's Dem Franchize Boys who rule this particular guest list: The Jermaine Dupri-produced "Everytime Tha Beat Drop" doesn't play--it demands a dance floor. Instantly. Every time. --Tammy La GorceBlues Music CDs
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