Diana Ross - Swept Away
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Artist: Diana RossEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-03-07
Music Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
Soundtracks:
- Missing You
- Touch By Touch
- Rescue Me
- It's Your Move
- Swept Away
- Telephone
- Nobody Makes Me Crazy Like You Do
- All Of You
- We Are The Children Of The World
- Forever Young
Music reviews of Swept Away
Music Review: Song By Song,Touch By Touch
Rating: 4 Stars
Before Beyonce',there was Diana.Despite the very clished and obvious comparasin (if you've already seen the film version of Dreamgirls you'll get it instantly) this is Diana's fourth RCA album and self produced at that. At this point in her life Diana could rely on image,name and reputation to carry herself forward career wise and that allowed her to be more unpredictable and not have to be ultra commercial throughout every song. The presense of Arthur Baker,Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards and Daryl Hall bring the point home:this is an album that's thoroughlly mid 80's in execution and sound. What's good about it is that Diana goes for a slow crawl for the most part;grooves that are sexy,urban and contemporary for the time with a strong emphasis on rhythm and changes in tempo from song to song. "Missing You" is actually a pretty classy tribute to Marvin Gaye.Of course and,even though I swore before I picked up this CD (the original US version by the way) from my local Goodwill that I swore I'd never heard it before but after hearing it turns out I have on several occasions;I have to wonder why no Maine DJ has announced the names of the songs they play through at least half my lifetime. This album is primarily dominated by dance tunes with a light electro funk twist but,luckily nothig is too intrusive instrumentally. "Touch By Touch","It's Your Move" and the excellent,slinky title song are great examples for those digging into this for the first time. On "Telephone" Bernard Edwards deepens the groove for what is likely the funkiest jam on the whole album,which I would not exactly qualify as funk per se. She also turns out a good modernized version of "Rescue Me". The music really isn't all that different from Fontella Bass's classic original only the production is of course modern and the sound is a lot more polished. "Nobody Makes Me Crazy Like You Do" is one of my favorites here;not likely one most people will remember beyond being an album track but an excellent contrast between these surreal,genuinely Devo/Kraftwerk-like electronic synth sound and Diana's.....sometimes surreally sweet and high singing style. It's a kind of genre,as a person interested in the art of pop music that I think Diana should've explored more personally. But she doesn't spend much of this trying to pass herself off as Annie Lennox or something and that leads to triumphs and a couple head scratchers here for some people. Compared to the well orchestrated grandure of her Motown era pop epics "All Of You" with
Julio Iglesias and a version of Dylan's "Forever Young" are very over produced-sounds like someone mixed the orchestration over Diana's very good vocal interpretations and the result is pretty schmaltzy sounding musically. That and the very silly Broadway production numbere-styled "We Are The Children Of The World" are the reasons I deducted a star from this otherwise excellent 80's urban,contemporary groove album. I will certainly agree though that among Diana's mixed bag of albums at RCA this is one of the strong of the bunch and aside from three dud songs (well duds to me anyway) this is an excellent addition to her fairly vast catalog.
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