She'd do well with some Timbaland or Danga production. I applaud you for listening to it and nailing my issue. He actually started out as a local hip hop producer and started doing rnb through Alicia. The music is too hip hop influenced, and the drum patterns takes away from it. I haven't heard the album, but even from the clips, you just said exactly what I was thinking. The rap producer you speak of is her partner Kerry Brothers. I had higher hopes for Alicia but her music is not growing. If that's what she's doing, that doesn't work for her. It sounds like she has a rap producer lay down the drum track and she comes in and plays piano over it and someone else comes in and arranges around it. She needs to stop those rap producers from making her drum beats. Alicia is possibly one of the unfunkiest artists in the R&B genre. I think I'm starting to feel about Alicia the way Vainandy feels about Whitney Houston only without the hate. She should have taken the drum loop in the beginning of "I Need You" and used it on "Go Ahead" and discarded "I Need You" completely so she'd have at least one song with a tiny bit of bite to it. Production is not about laying down the beat, Alicia should have a band laying down that beat, and she should have them in the studio with her, and trust me i know that the music on this album for the most part was laid around her vocals, because thats the way almost everyone works at this point, which im sorry that is not BEING PRODUCED.Īlthough I give her props for bringing back an old school technique of starting out mid-tempo and speeding up the song in "Thing About Love", most of the CD is mediocre. Producers today are not producers, i know i have said this before but i cannot call the Neptunes or Tim or Danja producers when someone like Arif Mardin was a PRODUCER, its just not the same thing. Well i think you nailed the issue right there, PRODUCTION, that is where a majority of artists, talented, go wrong. E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
That can pretty much be said for the whole CD.Īlthough I give her props for bringing back an old school technique of starting out mid-tempo and speeding up the song in "Thing About Love", most of the CD is mediocre.