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Mar 22, 2011At their best, Hudson and her collaborators provide the kind of mature R&B that is not felt merely in the mind, throat, chest, or hips but the entire body.
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May 9, 2011The Oscar-winner is an understated powerhouse on her second album.
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Mar 31, 2011Jennifer Hudson has never sounded better.
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Mar 22, 2011Thankfully, these are stronger, and Hudson sounds more poised.
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May 5, 2011Jennifer Hudson would do well in stepping outside her comfort zone.
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Mar 18, 2011What's more surprising than the album's existence, though, is that Ms. Iron Pipes finally sounds like she's having some fun.
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Mar 22, 2011Hudson has a big, warm, church-trained R&B diva voice, a sure instrument for belting the blues and affirming the spirit. But that voice has never seemed comfortable among the bright shiny toys of a pop studio.
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MojoMay 18, 2011She's simply not being fed the right material, or getting to work with a sympathetic producer. Hudson is a soul singer not a modern R'n'B one. [Jun 2011, p.104]
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Apr 26, 2011It's an album far more than a parasite riding the wave of a traumatic situation, with a confident protagonist at its heart.
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Mar 21, 2011She almost always goes for the jugular, belting out Super Bowl Sunday-sized performances over the most laid-back of summer-afternoon soul clappers. Her voice overflows with emotion, and subtlety's in short supply.
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Mar 28, 2011Sonically, the record is up-to-the-minute; in spirit it's a throwback to the adult-oriented R&B of Anita Baker, Toni Braxton and Whitney Houston. Hudson's a one-woman revival, with a voice so forceful it can roll back time.
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Mar 22, 2011The sense that Hudson's singularity was lost on the I Remember Me team is reinforced by the fact that we've heard almost all of these songs before.
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Mar 22, 2011Jennifer Hudson's powerful alto isn't built for subtlety, and she uses it to its full potential on I Remember Me, cranking her performance to 11 regardless of whether any given song warrants it. Thankfully, most of the album's tracks deserve such bravado.
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Apr 21, 2011Disappointingly, the album ends with overblown ballads, including a gratuitous cover of Nina Simone's Feeling Good, and one of Diane Warren's most ear-ravaging shriekers, but the first three-quarters are heartlifting indeed.
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Apr 26, 2011Sadly, the Showgirls star is no Alicia Keys (who contributes three songs), and while she unquestionably has a voice, the material's nothing you'll want to remember.
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Aug 15, 2011Just awful and repetitive. Since apereltly my review is to short i'm going to make myself clear again - ****