Boyz II Men - Evolution

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Music Review: 3-1/2 stars
Rating: 3 Stars

This might have started because although the first single "4 Seasons Of Loneliness" is good, it wasn't a big hit, while their other first singles ("Motownphilly" and "I'll Make Love To You") were. What people need to understand is that some artists don't necessarily make songs just to get hits, although they don't mind getting hits. But when I listened to the album, something didn't seem to fit 100%. Oh, they did stay true to their formula at the beginning of the album in songs like "Doin' Just Fine" and "Never", but as the album went on it felt like they were slowly changing their style. This can best be expressed by the Sean Combs-produced "Can't Let Her Go", which isn't TERRIBLE, but it just doesn't sound like typical Boyz II Men. Actually, it's one of those songs that you'll be able to get into every other time you hear it. (They're better with fast songs that still have soul in them, like "Thank You" from II.)

The singing in "Baby C'mon" will make you wonder if that's really them singing or if it's a bonus track from an upcoming artist, and "Dear God" would have been a better ending to II, not to THIS album. I don't know what Babyface was thinking when he wrote "Girl In The Life Magazine", because it sounds like something that came out of a ten-year-old boy's diary: "I used to dream she would call/Crying her eyes out/She had an obsession with me/I was the love of her life/And she was all mine/The girl in the Life magazine." Then they do their own rendition of New Edition's smash "Can You Stand The Rain". It isn't exactly bad, but that's a song that should never be remade.

Many people call this album a commercial flop, primarily because it didn't sell as much as II. But when an album nearly goes diamond, it's hard to come back to that again. I don't think this album is a flop, but I do think it could have used some work. I thought it was their worst album compared to their other ones...that is, until I heard Nathan Michael Shawn Wanya. (By the way, if you want to follow along with the lyrics, I suggest getting them off the internet because most of the lyrics in the liner notes are wrong.)

Description of Evolution

Blues CDs

• Music > Styles
• Pop
• R&B