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Before we even begin, consider your own expectations for this, the first solo album from a member of Girls Aloud. Its lead single Fight For This Love might be breaking sales records at the time of writing, but surely nobody’s fooling themselves into thinking 3 Words will stand up to much scrutiny.
Cole might be something of a national treasure these days, a bona-fide celebrity beyond her music career, but few would ever single her out as the driving vocal force in Girls Aloud. The Newcastle-born singer can’t compete with the natural ability of bandmate Nadine Coyle – soon to follow in Cole’s solo deal footsteps– so has wisely surrounded herself with fine collaborators here, most notably will.i.am of global superstars the Black Eyed Peas. Also on board are Taio Cruz and a spread of hugely successful writers including Chris Braide (Kylie Minogue, Will Young) and Steve Kipner (Christina Aguilera, Kelly Rowland).
Producer and rapper will.i.am – real name William Adams – appears on three tracks here, and his own Cole-featuring single Heartbreaker is tagged on as a closing bonus track. His vocals complement Cole’s well, most effectively on the title track, soon to be released as a single. The lyrics might leave much to be desired – essentially the whole album is concerned with love: finding it, winning it, embracing it and losing it – but the surprisingly restrained arrangement, where heavy beats are balanced with light piano-style motifs and acoustic guitar elements, is a treat. Heaven isn’t as engaging, its sickly sweet vocal lines sure to elicit a chuckle or two, but at least the sentiments don’t stray over the album’s course.
Stand Up is a Cruz co-write, and it shows – the track’s smooth synth lines and sparkly production are echoes of the singer’s own Rokstarr album – and Boy Like You, another will.i.am collaboration, lifts a loop from Fleetwood Mac’s Little Lies to good effect. Parachute’s military percussion is similarly memorable. Mid-section numbers Rain On Me and Make Me Cry – Cole makes out like she does that a lot – are relative throwaways, but honestly: there was no way this was going to be a success from start to finish. The main ingredient is simply too imperfect to be polished to a flawless shine.
But 3 Words does exceed pessimistic predictions, and easily so, packing enough peaks to make Coyle’s inevitable follow-up very much the uphill struggle. --Mike Diver
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Firstly Cheryl the overrated cole or tweedy is an overrated woman who's nice enough but can't judge sing or as is evident produce a decent album I had low expectations but my good melancholy self indulged neither pop r'n'b hip hop rubbish is basically not even trying it's awful shes selling loads it's abysmal and a sad reflection of today's society hopefully she gets dropped but I doubt it Cheryl please leave music to the talented.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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The strange thing is that Cheryl Cole actually thinks she can dance like a manniquin, sing with a ridiculous Geirdie accent about as well as a kareoke singer in a working mans club in South Shields, and expect to be taken seriously. Her success says more about how gullible the British public are and how bad music has become. Fight for your Love is about as poor as pop music gets, the rest of the cd is just even more pathetic. It will sell in bucketloads, just like value label spam and make us all laugh for years to come. Cole sets a benchmark for musical rubbish.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This album is an appalling load of first degree crapperooney. Please do not waste your money on this tripe, even at the almost give-away price that Amazon is offering it to you. You will regret listening to it even once, if you even manage to do that ...
Cole's voice is rubbish. A pity, because she ticks all the other boxes. Instead, she's a celebrity famewhore with pretensions to a singing career. Please, God, do not inflict a second solo album on us.
One star out of five implies a 20% score. No! I'd actually have given her 1% for turning up on the right day to shoot the album cover and another 1% for turning Auto-Tune up to the max.
Avoid this mess of an album.
Cole's voice is rubbish. A pity, because she ticks all the other boxes. Instead, she's a celebrity famewhore with pretensions to a singing career. Please, God, do not inflict a second solo album on us.
One star out of five implies a 20% score. No! I'd actually have given her 1% for turning up on the right day to shoot the album cover and another 1% for turning Auto-Tune up to the max.
Avoid this mess of an album.
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three little words ? pile of s**t ,writing this in the hope that one of our cheryls fans can explain why they buy this cack ,the lyrical content of a jeremy kyle show sung with all... Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. M. Barsby
got the benefit of the doubt with some fans
Toss of a coin whether 1 or 2 stars. Another CC album available for 1p with some dealers.
With all her coverage, non stop advertising and a lot of public sympathy, this... Read more
With all her coverage, non stop advertising and a lot of public sympathy, this... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Red Rose
Very good
This first album of Cheryl's is very good and her collaboration with Will.i.am on three of the tracks is an added bonus. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Lin
Brilliant
i dont think there is a poor song on this album. one of my top 10 pop albums from the past few years. well done cheryl :)
Published 7 months ago by KH
Cheryl Cole - 3 Words
Cheryl Cole's stunning debut is everything you would expect from a Girls Aloud member going solo: fun and poptastic, but with a sexier twinge than before. Read more
Published 14 months ago by N. Wilson
3 Words is an album that has exceeded all my expectations!
Initially I had very little expectation for this album but Cheryl has surprised me. The album is a fun pop/R'n'B album with many catchy songs. Read more
Published 15 months ago by T. Sri
Stunning!
This album is really nice!!! Her new album isn't so good as this one, so buy this one! It's much better! More song you know, more songs which sounds nicer, more style. Read more
Published 16 months ago by frankhaircut
Cole (AKA tweedy) certainly needs that voice enhancer
I bought this for my daughter, who's 8 years old and mad about Cheryl, and she loves this album, playing it constantly, which is a bit annoying for the rest of the house hold as my... Read more
Published 18 months ago by graham
Delightful
To be honest, I didn't expect much from this album but I bought it after I heard "Parachute" (which I didn't know was sung by Cheryl when I first heard it. Read more
Published 19 months ago by M. So
Nothing Life Changing....A Few Catchy Tunes
If I'm being honest, I have a soft spot for Cheryl Cole and was hoping that this album might rate a little higher than my expectations. It didn't but only barely. Read more
Published 20 months ago by LadyTsang
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