Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724357710220 Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: September 07, 2004 Sales Rank: 23020 Studio: Blue Note Records
Amazon.com: In an era of fast-food divas and ready-made starlets, finding the genuine article is often as hard as finding a needle in a haystack. Anita Baker could not have picked a better time for her return to music. After a decade-long hiatus, the soulful songstress returns with her eagerly anticipated Blue Note debut, My Everything.
The 10-track disc doesn't disappoint. Lush, emotive, and gorgeous are a few words that come to mind when listening to the Toledo, OH native's album. Lead single 'You're My Everything' opens the album with an infectiously smooth groove that reminiscent of her classics. The album also includes 'You're My Everything Revisited,' a jazzy interpolation of the aforementioned single. Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds joins Baker on 'Like You Used to Do.' The ballad, with its warm electric guitar-accented backdrop, evokes a classic R&B sound without dating itself. Other standouts include 'I Can't Sleep,' and the heavenly 'Close Your Eyes.'
If the album had any real flaws, it's that Baker's serene sound rarely wavers. Still, 'My Everything' could serve as a tutorial to aspiring R&B singers on what it means to deliver music with style, class, and true artistry. --Rashaun Hall
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Rating: - A MOST WELCOMED RETURN FOR THIS SOUL LEGEND, AND HOPEFULLY WE WON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS BEFORE WE GET THE NEXT ONE
Nothing different, just Pure/Simple Anita Baker! No Guest Rappers (Thank God). Smooth and breezy from start to finish! It seems like Anita Baker & Blue Note work well together (The company DID put some serious Marketing & Promotion behind this project). Key Cuts: The Title Track, "Like You Used To" (A Duet With Babyface), "How Could You", and the cute: "Men In My Life". A Straight Jazz album would be reallllll nice....She's at the right label.
Rating: - Boring!!! Nothing groundbreaking here.
I was looking forward to this and was disappointed to hear a new album that sounds like more of her old stuff. :-(
Rating: - Don't burn your brigdes behind you!!
Babyface sued singer Anita Baker for allegedly failing to pay him for a song he produced for her. He filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against fellow R&B artist Anita Baker alleging she owes him at least $250,000. Babyface co-wrote and produced the incredible song "Like You Used to Do,".
It's kinda hard to beleive this, but it seems Anita decided to con her producer even if the album went gold with 500,000 sold copies. I purchased this CD because I had heard about this duet with Babyface and "Like You Used to Do" is the best track on the album.
Rating: - Lei e' bravissima,ma l'album e' irritante e quasi insolente...
Abbiamo tutti aspettato 10 anni per il nuovo CD di Anita !
Lei e' splendida,ha una voce staordinaria e molto evocativa.Peccato che 'My Everything' non sia all'altezza dei suoi dischi precedenti.
Tutto e' molto scontato in questo CD,tra l'altro cortissimo,soli 43 minuti! Come prevedibile,si e' trattato piu' che altro di un puro 'esercizio'...commerciale,un accordo furbissimo tra la Blue Note e la vocalista americana...per accontentare la grande massa di fans adoranti...
Niente di speciale,di stupefacente,o semplicemente degno di essere ricordato.Anzi,anche dopo ripetuti ascolti,si rimane un po' perplessi,perche' non si ricorda un brano invece di un altro...
La produzione e' piuttosto mediocre,solo le Perri Sisters(come background vocals) danno un grande contributo all'ascolto.
Un errore non secondario e' che la Baker,che e' una grandissima interprete,ha voluto,preteso ed ottenuto di co ... Read More
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- A MOST WELCOMED RETURN FOR THIS SOUL LEGEND, AND HOPEFULLY WE WON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS BEFORE WE GET THE NEXT ONE
- Boring!!! Nothing groundbreaking here.
- Don't burn your brigdes behind you!!
