Bobby Brown - Forever

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Music Review: Sigh...
Rating: 2 Stars

I didn't expect this album to be all that good, but then I didn't expect the album to be this BAD. This album was no doubt put together because Bobby needed something to do. The album has eleven tracks, but in some ways the album can be said to have nine tracks because "Feelin' Inside" and "Give It Up" are so uninspiring you'll forget them halfway through listening to them. The intro has Whitney Houston sucking up to him by singing: "Nobody does it better/Makes me feel sorry for the rest/Nobody does it quite the way you do/Bobby, you're the best." Did anyone ask for her opinion? Next comes "It's Still My Thang," where you hear him saying "And like I told you eighty years ago/It's still my prerogative don't you know." EIGHTY years ago? What's he talking about?

The last two songs on the album have problems all their own. "Sunday Afternoon" is way too literal, talking about how a typical Sunday afternoon is for him. He even tries to hype himself by telling how other guys on the street are "rollin' in their jeeps/Pumpin' the funky sounds of me, Bobby Brown." "Heart And Soul" sounds like a mirror of "Been Around The World," but both of those songs are uniquely bad. "Been Around The World" is a boring track that tells how he's seen a lot of women worldwide, but he still comes home to "her." And it doesn't help that the song has a very annoying drumbeat that's reminiscent of Free Instrument Time in third grade Music class. "Heart And Soul" is the same thing without the drumbeat, but then he adds very raunchy and ridiculous lyrics.

No full song on this album is worth listening to. Guest spots from unknown rappers like Carole Brown and Irvin Fomar, not to mention Bobby himself, degrade the songs even more. And Bobby still thinks it's obligatory to say "Peace B. Brown. We outta here" at the end of most of the songs. (He even says it in the liner notes.) I think everyone would be a lot happier if that statement referred to his being in the studio.

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