Tweet - It's Me Again
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Free Music Review: It's strong in the beginning.
Hit: 4 Stars
Then there are some tracks in the middle (Things I Don't Mean, My Man) and towards the end (Steer) which are just kinda there. But there are gems to be found here, no doubt!:
"Turn Da Lights Off" is a decent opener. I love the old-school record-skipping deal they have in this, and other songs. Then "Iceberg" and "Could It Be?" come strong.
But possibly the best track here, "You" totally immerses you into a love-gone-bad, featuring soaring vocal work from Misses Southern Hummingbird herself. Great beat too.
"Cab Ride", "Sports Sex & Food" and "I'm Done" do this CD some justice too. The latter possessing a great, smooth jazzy feel to the record.
The rating I'm going to award this CD is a four stars. Tweet's vocals are as sweet (and sometimes soaring) as ever!
4 stars.
Free Music Review: Great CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Tweet is such an underrated singer. She has a great voice and her second CD is just as good as the first. Free Music Review: We miss u Tweet :-(
Hit: 4 Stars
Honestly, "Turn Da Lights Off" is still not the best track on the album that showcases her vocals, depth, and growth. But I knew that she would do it AGAIN. Tweet is just pure talent and her voice evokes so much emotion and this time around- STRENGTH. Right now my favorite tracks are:
"You"- she sings "I don't know why, I saw a prize in you....."
"Iceberg"- talking bout how she searched the world for him and
he turned so so cold, I can relate.
"Steer"- this in my opinion should be a single, the beat is off
glass, the words are on point and her voice just does
it. "I remember what you said, while you were
laying in my bed. Believing every word you said,
you putting crazy thoughts in my head."
"I'm Done"- not saying that she is giving up on love, but next
go round she is telling love to make it "worth her
while". But in the meantime she is done putting up
with drama and "many sleepless nights". All of us
who love hard can relate to this.
I love the entire album and I love Tweet's presence as an artist and as a real down to earth person. For those of us who are not completely absorbed in this Lil' Jon or Ciara era, this is what it is about. Real music.......Like I said before when she released "Southern Hummingbird", Tweet to me is R&B and Soul music's saving grace. Support her and buy the album, it is well worth it.........
Free Music Review: For Better Or Worse, Not The Tweet We Grew To Love
Hit: 3 Stars
If there's anything that makes R&B singer / songwriter / guitarist Tweet stand out from the pack, it's her naturally raw sexuality (in other words, she doesn't rely on breathy come-ons and lyrical sleaze, with the possible exception of her irresistible debut single "Oops") and her surprising vocal and musical restraint (in other words, she doesn't resort to melismatic caterwauling ? la Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, etc.). "Southern Hummingbird", the debut album of this talented, New York-born songstress, was a near-perfect set of R&B/Soul-leaning material, so Tweet naturally has a lot to live up to, especially after a 3-year absence and a debut single that'd probably be one of the raunchiest, sexiest and weirdest R&B songs of 2002, if not this decade ("Oops", featuring a disarming verse by Missy Elliott).
Unfortunately, there is nothing here on "It's Me Again", Tweet's sophomore album, that even comes close to matching the aforementioned song, and the actual album as a whole doesn't match up to her debut in terms of quality. Ironically, the worst tracks tend to be the ones with Missy Elliott's and/or Timbaland's fingerprints - Missy Elliott's annoying shouting and unnecessary guest verses ruin potentially good songs like the Funk-lite, minimalist club cut "Things I Don't Mean" and the otherwise sexy slow jam (and lead single) "Turn The Lights Off" (though I can't congratulate Missy Elliott for her vocal contributions, I applaud her for incorporating Nat King Col's "Lost April" & portions of Luther Vandross' "If This World Were Mine" so effectively on the latter song); "We Don't Need No Water" is straight-up garbage, driven by weak, minimalist production that works against Tweet's (usually) smooth croon and Missy Elliott's (usually) appealing personality; and Tweet's soulful, smooth voice seems to get swallowed up by Timbaland's mix of sound effects and instrumentation on the God-awful track "Steer".
The only other piece of filler on the album is "Two Of Us", a balladic duet between her daughter Tashawna (surprising or not, she sounds like a mini-Tweet, if that's possible) that's as sentimental as it is cheesy.
However, there are gems to be found, most of them coming from moments when Tweet and cohorts switch up the tempo without screwing anything up. "Iceberg" is a beautiful, Latin guitar-driven ballad that opens up with smooth horns before Tweet proceeds to mourningly sing of a "sinking" relationship (yes, I notice the pun); "When I Need A Man" is a sexy, up-tempo club number that beautifully blends R&B, Funk, Soul and faint Middle-Eastern musical influences with Tweet's surprisingly strident vocals; lively drums and piano keys steadily rush beneath Tweet's confident vocal delivery on "Sports, Sex & Food", a generally dead-on (if not cynical) tutorial into a typical man's heart; and "Cab Ride", which contains material from the theme song to TV show Taxi ("Angela") and is driven by a soothing flute, is another beautiful ballad that's both relaxing and depressing at the same time.
For better or worse, the rest of the album is pretty much more of the same music you've heard before, only that's it's executed with less emotion and enthusiasm. After listening this album, I was no longer surprised as to why this album failed to match up to "Southern Hummingbird" commercially or critically. Lets hope Tweet comes back a third time around to blow us away again like she did before. Until then...3.5 stars!
5 Best Tracks:
"Iceberg"
"When I Need A Man"
"Cab Ride"
"Sports, Sex & Food"
"Could It Be (feat. Rell)"
Free Music Review: a little below average
Hit: 3 Stars
Tweet disappoints with a very slow-paced, boring set where almost every song sounds the same. Most songs are half-baked ideas or just plain lackluster and uninspired. A few tracks prove to be worthy of a listen, but most could have been left behind.