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As expected, there are plenty of tracks geared toward letting loose and dancing, and most of them do deliver, even if they don't seem quite as fresh as Ciara's past hits.
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It sounds like the producers are all competing to drum up the best variation on Ciara's patented Crunk N' B theme.
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Ciara's still prone to diva blandness and silly little pop songs.
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Ciara is no Beyoncé yet, but a song as good as Like a Boy, a flashback to Destiny's Child at their exhilarating peak, suggests that she one day might be. Evolution allowing.
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In Ciara's effort to prove herself a diva, her second album flails, bloated with spoken-word interludes and boilerplate pop & b that obscures some truly good songs.
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BillboardSongs such as the Rodney Jerkins-produced "Make It Last Forever" and "Get Up"... are surefire club hits, although such ballads as "It's Over" tend to fall flat. [9 Dec 2006]
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The problem is that the ballads - a key to the crossover longevity Ciara desires - are almost uniformly limp.
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Perhaps if she'd just kept it crunk, she could have produced something really deffer and fresher, instead of merely pleasantly reminiscent of the past.
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I would say she should leave the bumper-sticker philosophizing to Oprah and Tyra and stick to singing, but she doesn't excel at that either.
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Too often on The Evolution she’s looking over her shoulder, too self-conscious to be a real seductress.
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VibeIt's a mixed bag. [Jan 2007, p.112]
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HalordV.Jul 18, 2008Masterpiece!