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| 1. Me Love - Sample D'yer Mak'er | |||
| 2. Beautiful Girls - Sample Contains portions of Stand by Me | |||
| 3. Got No Shorty - Sample I Aint Got Nobody | |||
| 4. Can You Feel It - Sample In The Air Tonight | |||
| 5. Colors (2007) (Reggae Remix featuring Vybz Kartel and Kardinal Offishall) - Sample Colors | |||
| 6. Beautiful Girls - Sample Contains portions of Stand by Me | |||
| 7. Intro | |||
| 8. Kingston | |||
| 9. Take You There | |||
| 10. Me Love | |||
| 11. Beautiful Girls | |||
| 12. Dry Your Eyes | |||
| 13. Got No Shorty | |||
| 14. There's Nothin (featuring Paula DeAnda) | |||
| 15. Can You Feel It | |||
| 16. Drummer Boy | |||
| 17. Your Sister | |||
| 18. That Ain't Right | |||
| 19. Change | |||
| 20. Colors (2007) (Reggae Remix featuring Vybz Kartel and Kardinal Offishall) | |||
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Ok, that's lazy and unfair - Sean has way more going on than Eamon; his family has a strong reggae pedigree (his grandfather is Burning Spear producer, Jack Ruby) and on his eponymous debut he turns his hand to a bewildering mix of musical styles. Trouble is - that may be his downfall.
Anyone into Jamaican music will be familiar with the concept of laying new vocals over well-known instrumental tracks (or 'rhythms') and creating a completely different tune. Now via the 'mashup' culture this form has entered the mainstream and roughly a third of the album covers this territory.
And had he stuck to the 'do-overs' Sean Kingston could have been the ideal album to play at Christmas. The mixture of old classics, catchy hooks and no bad language would have the whole family nodding along between plays of Music To Watch Girls By. Gran will love the Ben E King bass-line on big hit 'Beautiful Girls', Dad'll get down to the Phil Collins sampling 'I Can Feel It', and you can all laugh at your teenage brother's exasperation at what Sean's done to Led Zeppelin's 'D'Yer Maker' on second single 'Me Love'.
Sadly, however, the desire to hit as many markets as possible means much of the remainder finds Sean as Fisher Price gangster on tracks like 'Kingston', 'Take You There' and 'Drummer Boy'. JR Rotem's production is clean and shiny, while Sean's voice sounds a bit like Collie Buddz - although that may be because they've both been processed into oblivion.
There's much to like here, and with at least two hit singles on Sean Kingston, he's no one-hit-wonder. But on the strength of this disunited debut, the future remains unclear. --Angus Taylor
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The quality is OK to listen in the car, but I doubt it is satisfactory for Home Cinema, for instance, or any other sofisticated device. The most irritating thing is that Sean thinks it is necessary to inform the listeners that it is him who is singing at the beginning of almost every song. Come on, buddy, I have bought your CD, you think, your songs make me foget this? )))
The formula isn't new; it has been done before, most recently by Sean Paul. Read more
2. Kingston
3. Take You There
4. Me Love
5. Beautiful Girls
6. Dry Your Eyes
8. There's Nothin' - Kingston, Sean & Paula DeAnda
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Remarkable debut album from US pop-reggae
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