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- Summary: After a three-year hiatus, Macy Gray delivers soulful vocals, storytelling lyrics, and sparkling melodies on her latest album.
- Record Label: Concord
- Genre(s): R&B, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Neo-Soul, Adult Contemporary R&B
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Top Track
| Beauty In The World | |
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| I know you're fed up Like a lead up for us All they talk about is What is going down? What's been messed up for us? When I look around I see blue... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Much has been made--often unfairly--of Gray's awkwardness and lack of convention. But after several stabs at clumsy conformity, it finally feels like it's something she's embracing, and that's massively evident here.
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If not a match for the brilliant yet underperforming 'Big', The Sellout certainly maintains high and admirably consistent standards.
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On The Sellout, her first album in three years, the production sands off the edges that have been key to Gray's appeal.
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Despite the title, her new album is a softer sell--and more appealing--than 2007's Will.i.am-assisted Big.
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The real problem with The Sellout is that it, in fact, wants to be a sellout but isn' a very good one. These blatant attempts to cash on famous names are weakest tracks here.
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Easy as it is to root for the freaky underdog in any endeavor, Gray doesn't sound especially engaged here.
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UncutCutting edge, it's not, as if that was ever the point, but the title of the collection seems less like a wry confession, more like wishful thinking. [Jun 2010, p.88]
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