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  • Issued : 03 Nov 2009

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Genre : Dance & Soul Catalogue Number : B001322502
Format : CD Label : Def Jam
Issued : 03 Nov 2009 Item sourced from : USA
Number of Discs : 1

In Love  &  War

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After 1 Thing hit the Top Ten of the Hot 100 during the spring of 2005, Amerie was basically invisible. A follow-up single only grazed the Hip-Hop/R&B chart. Released in 2007, the adventurous Because I Love It, the singer's next album -- and, ironically, best work -- wasn't even issued in the U.S., possibly because its lead single slid off the chart within two weeks. Now on Def Jam, Amerie returns with In Love & War, an album that is much more creative than its title indicates while also playing out a bit like Because I Love It redux. Even with a few recycled ideas and the unlikeliness that she'll have another 1 Thing, the singer has made a second excellent album without the help of Rich Harrison. She works with another assortment of co-producers and co-writers, including Eric Hudson, Sean Garrett, Warryn Campbell, Rico Love, Jim Jonson, Bryan-Michael Cox, and even Teddy Riley. As on Because I Love It, all the high-energy material is packed into the first half, where Amerie lays down the law, accosts, and flirts, and she even manages to seem in control when she falls into a romantic trap. Why R U is a reminder that no one is better when it comes to breathing new life into a familiar breakbeat, while Higher is surprisingly rocking, reined in just before spinning out of control. The first half is even better when it cools down a few degrees, as on the rewrite of Mint Condition's Breaking My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes), featuring Trey Songz, and More Than Love, where Amerie rides more Kool & the Gang horns and gets into an amusing spat with Fabolous. Swag Back through Dear John is all subdued and deals mostly with the war side -- accepting a lost cause, escaping a living hell, and recovering from it -- though You're a Star and Red Eye provide a reprieve, with the latter the album's only true slow jam. Its alluringly bleary synthesizer cleverly enhances Amerie's half-awake mile-high-club state of bliss. Heartbreak ballads like The Flowers and the Paint Me Over-like Different People might put off those who have an aversion to melodrama, but they are as well constructed as anything earlier in the set. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

Credits

Graham Marsh(Engineer),  Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young(Engineer),  Mark "Exit" Goodchild(Engineer),  Miles Walker(Engineer),  James Scheffer(Composer),  Prolifix(Composer),  Richard Westfield(Composer)

Songs

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    Tell Me You Love Me
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    Heard Em All
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    Dangerous
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    Higher
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    Why R U
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    Pretty Brown feat. Trey Songz
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    More Than Love feat. Fabolous
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    Swag Back
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    You're A Star (Interlude)
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    Red Eye
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    The Flowers
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    12
    Different People
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    13
    Dear John
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    14
    Heard 'Em All Remix Feat. Lil Wayne

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    amazing grace  |  佐賀県  |  不明  |  14/November/2009

    デフジャム移籍後第一弾!ただし、ちょっと流行からハズレちゃってます感(いい意味で)は相変わらず。ここでもエグゼクティブプロデューサーとして独特な自分の世界を築いていて他アーティストとは一線を画す仕上がり!何と言っても「Why R U」や「Heard ’Em All」、「Pretty Brown」なんかはかなりツボ!前半のアップもいいが、後半も詩的な「Dear John」など秀作がそろってます!ただビルボードで64(?)位スタートは若干不安。でも自作ではリッチとの再タッグ待ってます!

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