In My Mind
- Pharrell Williams
- Band Name: Pharrell Williams
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2006
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"In My Mind" sometimes settles for the conventional, but overall this one is too hot to drop. [23 Jul 2006]
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He'll never win any of those freestyle battles but he can damn sure make a record that you'll enjoy listening to multiple times.
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In My Mind intermittently shares the ingratiating weirdness of Williams' N.E.R.D. side project, but his shaky rhyming and occasionally off-key crooning suggest he shouldn't quit his day job cranking out beats anytime soon.
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While there are a few too many lounge-bar moments - a hangover from his NERD days - when 'In My Mind' is good, it really is excellent.
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60Ultimately, In My Mind falters through narrowness of vision. [Dec 2005, p.120]
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60Even the best of these tracks lack the grimy menace of the most thrilling Neptunes beats. [Sep 2006, p.147]
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A large chunk of the material is second rate compared to his past highlights.
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60The bulk of the R&B tracks are gloopy. [Mar 2006, p.106]
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If In My Mind seems divided against itself, rest assured that all of the songs have something in common: They're not remotely catchy.
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A few highlights aside, it's hard to understand why at least a half-dozen of these over-glossed R&B-lite numbers ever made it out of their maker's mind.
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Next to guests Jay-Z, Snoop and Slim Thug, Pharrell's playa-playa croon gets tiresome.
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50He just doesn't make a convincing rapper, and it's not only a question of charisma: his voice tends towards the monotone, and lacks honey.
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In My Mind has several potential hit singles, but taken as a whole it falls dramatically short.
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50There's nothing as instantly likable as "Frontin'," and even with the presence of some bigwig collaborators the disc sounds strangely inspiration-free.
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Stylish and confident to a fault, Pharrell's success as a solo artist is, unfortunately, pretty much where the album title says it is.
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40If you were expecting some next-level shit from Pharrell Williams on his self-produced solo debut, you're in for a huge disappointment.
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40It's an ambitious mess, but it's a mess.
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39The idea that a producer of his caliber can't put together something resembling a likeable LP-- particularly in light of his endlessly amusing Gangsta Grillz mixtape, In My Mind: The Prequel-- is insane. Here, he's shot himself in the foot. Where the mixtape exploded with enthusiasm and wit, In My Mind the album is corroded and ineffectual. Worse, it's predictable.
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30Beyond the artificiality of this album's every attempt to be loved, what's most surprising is Pharrell's failure to program so much as a decent beat.
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Pharrell's all-too-shallow schtick becomes monumentally tired over the course of an entire album.
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30While he is certainly an innovative producer, that originality fails to translate on "In My Mind."
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He seems to be a better thinker than a writer and a better writer than a rapper. [24 Jul 2006]
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There's hardly an honest word on In My Mind; any sane listener's bullshit meter should red-line after about fifteen minutes of it's textured repulsiveness.
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EmmanuelO8this album brings a little bit of everything hip hop and r and b most artists are not able to do that and he also produces his own beats
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Vince9