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Rowland - assisted by producers like Scott Storch (Christina Aguilera) and Polow Da Don (Pussycat Dolls) - brings the noise and the funk to her vibrant follow-up. [06 Jul 2007, p.136]
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80Kelly Rowland failed to step out of Beyoncé's shadow commercially with Ms Kelly, but in artistic terms the album revealed her as a viable solo star.
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80Though still short of career-defining, "Ms. Kelly" finds its author opening up more while welcoming the possibility that destiny may just find another star.
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80Ms. Kelly, though, has some points to prove, foremost among them that this songbird can rock.
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70Rowland offers a solid if somewhat safe set of grooves, but the album never takes full flight to become something special.
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60Rowland's big problem is that she has the lungs but not the voice, at least not if we take that to mean something distinctively her own.
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The material tends to be kind of insidious, rather than hitting you immediately or going through one ear and out the other, and it's significantly more R&B-oriented.
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This time around, both the production and lyrics are stronger.
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The ballads that apparently deal with Rowland's ex-fiance, Roy Williams, are the broken heart of the album: They also eschew subtlety (lyrically, at least), yet the results show Rowland has artistic depths that keeping up with the Knowleses doesn't inspire.
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40Not as good as Beyonce.
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