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Fantasy Ride - Ciara
  • Band Name: Ciara
  • Record Label: La Face
  • Release Date: May 5, 2009
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Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

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  • Summary: The third album for the Atlanta, Georgia singer features guest appearances by Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, The-Dream, Ludacris, Chris Brown, and Young Jeezy.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. The Guardian
    80
    At her best, her pace is furious, and keeping up is exhilarating.
  2. Slant Magazine
    60
    While Fantasy Ride doesn't include as many obvious peaks as Ciara's previous discs, the only major disaster is 'Like a Surgeon,' which is filled with creepy, ill-conceived metaphors for sex and should not to be confused with Weird Al's "Like a Virgin" parody. And that makes Fantasy Ride Ciara's smoothest ride to date.
  3. All Music Guide
    60
    Even if Ciara imaginatively develops the "Super C" superhero introduced in the disc's booklet, she and her collaborators will have to work extra hard on the next album to ensure that she does not stall in a creative cul de sac.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. KeenanC
    10
    Though it does have the usual collaborators and featured guest Fantasy Ride has a plethora of different tracks ranging from hip-hop (High Price) to RnB (Whats your name). All the songs on the album have potential to be singles, and all of them being strong vocally with the strong hot beat. I think Fantasy Ride is the best album out in 2009!… Expand
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  2. iamanicon
    5
    Its ashame that Ciara has made these far from amazing albums. If she were to take the singles and the few album tracks that arent filler from each of her albums she would create an amazing r&b record. But alas, we're stuck with ripping discs onto our laptops and making them playlists.… Expand
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  3. ClifC
    3
    "Goodies" and "1, 2 Step" period is really far far far from her now. And we can feel it so deeply: The electronic sounds are (almost everytime) naive and badly used. No personnality. No standout track ("Never Ever" and "Work" being very good songs though, almost standout tracks). Recyclage ("High Price" being a "Oh!, Part 2" for example). The artists featuring on this album were predictable. Not only the artists, but the album in itself is predictable.… Expand
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