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Article: Ciara needs to stay in the groove ; CIARA FANTASY RIDE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2009
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Why do the party girls always want to be divas?
Ciara's best songs have always been dance jams that exploit her
breathy vocals on record and breathtaking moves on video. See:
"Goodies," "1, 2, Step," "I Proceed."
On her third release, the queen of the club wastes way too much
time trying to convince the listener that she's some kind of
chanteuse. Songs like the droning, hook-free "Like a Surgeon" - not
an A-game effort for songwriting team Tricky and The- Dream - and
"Never Ever," which lazily bites the entire chorus melody of the
soul classic "If You Don't Know Me By Now," only expose how thin
Ciara's voice really is. Exacerbating the problem is the bloodless,
mechanized production that ...
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