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Brandy's meatiest album to date. [9 Jul 2004, p.85]
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A superbly impertinent set. [10 Jul 2004, p.48]
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Afrodisiac is Brandy's fourth consecutive durable showing, fluffed out with a few innocuous — if still very listenable — filler moments, but it is stocked with a number of spectacular -- and emotionally resonant -- singles that wind up making for her most accomplished set yet.
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Recalls Janet Jackson at her best.
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Ultimately we can’t get a bead on Brandy precisely because she hasn’t yet figured it out herself.... Which is exactly what makes Afrodisiac such a fascinating exercise.
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70A far cry from the pleasing pubescent fluff of her formative years. [Aug 2004, p.139]
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70It's beat-filled melancholy, an affirmation wrapped in a lament, it's the Coldplay record that the R&B set have never had.
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67Afrodisiac teases more than tantalizes.
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Brandy has always tended toward blandness and is either unequipped or too restrained to unleash the soulful vocal flights that give R&B its distinctive stamp. [11 Jul 2004]
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60"Afrodisiac" is Brandy’s most personally revealing album to date and her least lyrically fluffy, but its intimacy is hamstrung by the MTV-flavoured, formulaic gloop with which most contemporary, American R&B now seems to be contaminated.
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60What gives Afrodisiac its allure are the confident club jams that mask B-Rocka’s vocal limitations without overpowering her.
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60Feels like an episode of her growing-pains TV show Moesha. [Aug 2004, p.130]
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Analbum that flirts with the mundane just enough to tease out moments of brilliance.
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40Paint-by-number grooves, coupled with nonexistent hooks and forgettable melodies, do not result in an album that requires repeated plays; that is unfortunate, since a few Timbaland-produced tracks demand just that.
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MarioA10This CD was Truth, truth made into kool songs
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KrystalM10Fantastic!