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Akon sounds more comfortable than expected, and he reduces the lechery in favor of longing ("I wanna make up right now") and awe ("When I see you, I run out of words to say"). At times, the tensionless backdrops don't inspire Akon to do much with his pen.
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Despite his hip-hop roots and the presence of guest rappers such as Lil Wayne, it's Akon's buoyant pop sensibility that prevails.
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Beneath the digital production and R2D2 vocals, Akon is secretly an old-fashioned romantic, and his third album is his most heart-on-sleeve.
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MojoThe writing on this third album's greatest strength. [Feb 2009, p.109]
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Freedom will be a disappointment, and a predictable one at that.
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On album three, he tests out heartbreak, and his emotional wiring doesn’t cooperate.
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If anything, the album sounds like a CD-R of demos that an aspiring pop star wouldn’t mind losing.
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Freedom is mostly lame club tunes with mega-auto-tuned vocals about wishing "I could just stop by and lay by your side."
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Akon's philosophy of liberty also includes the freedom to reuse nearly identical hooks for 13 songs straight. That approach may bring him plenty money, but it yields only a few legitimately fun tracks, buried beneath a pile of boring retreads.
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Somehow, fond recollections of the bad old days in the ghetto with fellow superstar Wyclef Jean just don’t have the same resonance and uplifting power as previous songs that came from a place of near-defeat and unfulfilled aspirations.
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UncutEvery track here is interchangeable, not only with each other, but with anything from his back catalogue. [Feb 2009, p.76]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 44
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Mixed: 4 out of 44
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Negative: 8 out of 44
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Apr 27, 2014
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Mar 7, 2013It has nice soundsbut Akon misses the point in the creation of most of these songs.
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Oct 22, 2010