*European pressing.
Contains 22 tracks total.
Country: U.S.AGenre: R&B
Label Number: 508489 2/5084892000
© 2003 Music World Music, Columbia Records
AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
© 2003 Music World Music, Columbia Records
AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Manager and record company president Mathew Knowles, having established Destiny's Child -- featuring his daughter, Beyoncé Knowles
-- as the top female vocal group of the early 21st century, has gone on
to try to build an empire that includes solo releases from each of the
group members, an acting career for Beyoncé, and, now, the premature emergence of younger daughter Solange as a Solo Star, or so the album title would have it. Executive producer Knowles has surrounded Solange with a bevy of trendy writer/producers, including the Underdogs, Platinum Status, Timbaland, the Neptunes, and Rockwilder, along with such guest stars as B2K and Lil' Romeo.
The result is a state-of-the-art contemporary R&B album full of big
beats, catchy choruses, and gimmicky production effects. But the
nominal star of the show is lost somewhere in the mix. It doesn't help
that the 16-year-old has a thin, undeveloped voice that is easily
overwhelmed. The way to deal with that, of course, is to cut back on the
busy production. Solange
impresses most when the arrangements are simpler, such as on "Crush"
and "Wonderland," when she doesn't have to work as hard to be heard. But
there aren't enough tracks like those on the album to allow the
listener to tell whether there is any talent here, or whether Solange is just another cog in her daddy's entertainment machine.
tags: solange, solo star, 2003, flac,
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