- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Jun 4, 2002
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Entertainment WeeklyAnother set of songs that are political and unflinchingly personal, but still manage to entertain. [7 June 2002, p. 76]
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Cookie drips with R&B, hip-hop, Latin grooves, experimental jazz, blues and techno tidbits for yummy multilayered goodness.
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Without resorting to anything so obvious as a hook she manages to maintain continuity and interest over an hour-plus of poetry-with-funk.
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Cookie is so frequently brilliant that its periodic missteps feel like integral parts of a grand design.
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Call it urban ethereal, grounded in gritty raps and coiled funk rhythms, bolstered by jazz keyboards, soaring vocals, and synthesizers.
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Powerful, beautiful, sensual and activist, this is the record Prince keeps trying to make.
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UrbCookie is a true musical treat that more than hits its mark with seriously sublime style. [Aug 2002, p.118]
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Throughout, Cookie crackles with intensity, be it of the sexual, political, or religious kind.
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Ultimately, the disc is a mix of Afrocentrifugal explosiveness -- not only from the music, but also from her powerful lyrics that make the political personal and the personal political.
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SpinNdegeocello still swings for the same musical fences she did in '93. Here, though, she puts more shots into the seats. [Mar 2002, p.129]
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MojoOverlong, but provocative and engaging. [Dec 2002, p.116]
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UncutLong on rhetoric, short on melodic structure, it's hard going. [Dec 2002, p.150]
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BlenderHer lustrous music can err on the side of sleepy, because she prefers atmospherics and tricky harmonies to blaring hooks. [Apr/May 2002, p.116]
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Meshell's best when making the political personal--as she does on the blistering, explicit ballad "Trust"--instead of the other way around.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 18
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Mixed: 0 out of 18
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Negative: 4 out of 18
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SethBJul 9, 2002