Robin Thicke - Something Else
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Artist: Robin ThickeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- You're My Baby
- Sidestep
- Magic
- Ms. Harmony
- Dreamworld
- Loverman
- Hard On My Love
- The Sweetest Love
- Something Else
- Shadow of Doubt
- Cry No More
- Tie My Hands (featuring Lil Wayne)
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Free Music Review: Thicke Is Something Else!
Hit: 5 Stars
Strange as this may sound I actually heard this album after his newest release Sex Therapy: The Session and somehow that baught me to this previous album. This was there,in the record store on sale the day it came out and I pretty much walked right past it. Even though I was impressed by the earlier work of his I'd heard something about the heavy promotion he was starting to receive in the years 2005-2007 was a mild turn off to me. I was a victim of misguided thinking: believing the hype was a sign of a lack of creative integrity on his part. It's easy to forget the one thing we SHOULD all be remembering:let the music do the talking. And it seems as if I missed out big time,at first,on this album because it's one of the most impressive of that year. You'll probably find this in the "rock" section of your record store the way I did but this is Robin Thicke and there is little to nothing "rock" about him,not in the largely modern sense of the world in terms of indie and alternative music. Through the contemporary looking glass Robin has somehow managed to pull everything that works from 60s and 70's funk and modern versions of that into his orbit,all without having to rely on hip-hop sampling and natural sounding folksy sounds. There's grooves,songs and messages here really pop out at you and will get everyone on the ride. "You're My Baby", and "Ms.Harmony" are great pop-samba type midtempo ballads with Robin crooning softly but with plenty of guts as well. "Sidestep",the title song and "Magic" both just fit the bill 100% if your a lover of 70's funk/disco as I am. The Philly and Chicago styles in that genre are blended together in such a great with the rhythm section and horns really causing a great commotion. Where the album really gets cooking is...on the two cuts that really do have a strong rock influence. "Hard On My Love" and the powerful "Shadow Of Doubt" really bring out the Sly Stone/Chambers Brothers side of Thicke in two powerful psychedelic soul jams that...well as I said could easily go well with rock even though the flavor is different and smoother;emphasizing the crossing of bridges and the similarities between the genres themselves."Dreamworld","Loverman" and "The Sweetest Thing" introduce that Stevie Wonder/Isly Brothers chorded-type funk ballad idea back into light in a big way. The final track,the most modern sounding of the tunes features a rap by Lil Wayne that....actually makes a good point that while it's next to impossible to put yourself in someone elses shoes in terms of race that it never hurts to keep trying and become successful while your at it. This album belongs with a selection of albums that are a good step for new R&B/funk/soul albums to take because it doesn't plunder only the past for ideas and,not only that but concepts that it does take from that also involve lyrical and musical intricacy and communicating important ideas to listeners. And besides isn't that what the core of soul music is supposed to ressonate anyhow? However you cut it this is excellent music for your heart,mind and body.
Something Else Poster
Robin Thicke is primed and ready for Something Else. "It was like everyone was saying the same things, worried about the same things and I just felt we needed something different right now. I asked myself do I have a light? What is that light? How can I spread it, share it and turn it into a Puff Daddy white linen Miami Beach party?" After his highly acclaimed 1.5 million selling album "The Evolution of Robin Thicke" garnering the smash hit "Lost Without U", a tireless schedule of touring and appearances Robin needed to sit back, reflect on the last 2 years and start anew."On the last album I wanted to let people into my walk of life and connect my life to them and this album is more about involving great minds, hearts and spirits around me. When I started writing songs I was already embracing people and now I just wanted to dance and laugh with them". With that spirit driving the creative process Robin has penned some of the best songs of his career from the retro meets modern groove of the first single "Magic", the upbeat celebration of "Sidestep" to the picturesque "Dreamworld" he is taking the listener on a musical journey that is truly unique, sexy and invigorating. Something Else is exactly the kind of record that the world needs right now to feel inspired again.
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