The Return

Amazon.com After the righteous blast of gospel that was I Need an Angel, Ruben Studdard’s oh-so-secular disc, The Return, can be a little disconcerting: he of the velvet voice and teddybear looks wants to get you loose (see "Get U Loose"), but more importantly, he wants to get you used to the fact that, cuddly nickname or no, he's--lookout, ladies!--a playa. "Let me start by saying I'm not tryin' to get in your jeans," sings the man most of the world recognizes as a nice religious boy on the appealingly crackly "Let Me Make You Feel Beautiful." By the next track, though, he gets to the point: "Your body my body gonna be friends." And so it goes with the rest of the disc: diamonds shine off of his cuffs on "What Tha Business Is," a bouncy but burly club track; "To Da Crib" traffics in pure seduction ("I'm tellin' you, you won't forget it girl, even though you thought he rocked your world") and tosses in the N word for effect; and "Blow Ya Mind" extends a straightforward invitation--"take your clothes off/it'll feel right." It's not that Studdard, whose voice is in as fine a form as it was in 2003 when he won "American Idol," comes off as lecherous here--there have been far dirtier R&B discs--but he does give his sweet Southern persona a run for its money. Still, check him out: with Luther gone, there may be no smoother R&B torchbearer. --Tammy La Gorce Product Description Season 2 American Idol winner Ruben Studdard is back with the aptly named THE RETURN, a collection of R&B, soul, and pop hits, including "Change Me," "What the Business Iz," "Make Ya Feel Beautiful" and his rendition of the Luther Vandross classic, "If Only for One Night." Includes production by Scott Storch, Ne-Yo, Harold Lilly, the Underdogs, Mario Winans and more.
ASIN: B000HBKCDM
VSKU: DBV.B000HBKCDM.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Ruben Studdard
Binding: Audio cd
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