When it ends it's like you stepped out of that club and the album kicks into afterparty mode.
All in slow motion, freeze frame, take a picture. No, but listening I can see the smoke machine in the club, the drinks in the air, skirts and booties moving, hard partying. "Warm Bed" and "DJ Play a Love Song" keep you listening but "With You" featuring Snoop and Game comes in with an understated boom that twitches the senses: not just aurally, you start seeing visuals. It's an impressive way to start the album, but you sit back thinking it can only get worse, it has to, this is Jamie Foxx.
His voice is syrupy sweet with just enough heat to make it a soulful affair. Give Jamie vocal ability a lot of credit for making the song so addictive. The catchy hook would've lost all its flavor in the hands of the every day R&B artist. You've heard it every hour on the hour on your radio dial. "Unpredictable" featuring Ludacris is the first single off this album. In 1994 he made "Peep This" which I didn't bother to check out, with his involvement with "In Living Color" and the Wanda character I was thinking along the lines of Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time." The sales of the album indicate that I wasn't alone, but we may have been wrong. This isn't the first time that he's recorded an album. Without a doubt, it is odd to see Jamie Foxx singing these songs live, I'm waiting for him to break into a joke, much less to pick up the CD thinking that it's a serious effort.
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From start to finish Jamie proves that had he not made big bucks in TV and film he would still be in the VIP section using his voice alone as credentials. Jamie Foxx's "Unpredictable" is in that selective realm. While technically pleasing in parts, Intuition is a sign that Jamie Foxx needs to figure out his own style before inviting others to join and ultimately overshadow him.It's the rare album that I've listened to more than once, all the way through. While itself, probably the best song on the album, Kanye rides the beats with a 20 second advert for the Apple asking for the song to be loaded on his ''Mac book Air, don't be old fashioned it's a new type of mac''. If that doesn't win your worst lyric of all time award, then prepare yourself for the opening verse of Digital Girl.
Adding soul to I Don't Know and Timbaland's gritty productions on the grinding I Don't Need It helps solve that problem but without killer beats behind him all the way, Intuition sounds like an album lacking that essential bite.Īttitude and ego comes with the musical territory, but Jamie Foxx could out-boast even Kanye on the Lil Wayne featured and Beastie Boy penned Number 1 as he ups the sleaze factor asking a girl home so he can introduce her to Uncle Oscar and Aunt Emmy. The trouble though is that the guests are far more interesting than the star himself, leaving Jamie often faltering when left on his own. TI is the first special guest star and appears on comedy album opener Just Like Me and from there the names keep rolling in with T-Pain, the Dream, Ne-yo, Fabolous, Marsha Ambrosius and Timbaland all getting on board. Having famously declared his sophomore album Unpredictable an album for the bedroom, Intuition hears Jamie move to the dance floor for a collection of uncharismatic foot itchers. After three years away Jamie Foxx is swaggering back into town with his very own party of A-list special guest stars, ditching the acting for long enough to make some music.
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