Esthero - Wikked Lil' Grrrls
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Artist: EstheroEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- We R In Need Of A MusicalReVoLuTion
- Dragonfly?s Intro
- Blanket Me In You (Never Is So Soon)
- Everyday Is A Holiday (With You) -(featuring Sean Lennon)
- Thank Heaven 4 You
- If Tha Mood - (featuring Shakari Nite)
- Bad Boy Clyde
- Beautiful Lie
- Junglebook - (featuring Andre 3000)
- My Honeybrown
- Wikked Lil? Grrrls
- Gone - (featuring Cee-Lo Green)
- My Torture
- Melancholy Melody
- Fastlane - (featuring Jemeni and Jelleestone)
- Dragonfly?s Outro
- Brave Bear Woman
Music reviews of Wikked Lil' Grrrls
Music Review: Whither Doc?
Rating: 3 Stars
I like this disc, it's definitely a superior example of a sexy, saucy singer working across a range of older and newer styles, but it still lacks the special haunting something her debut "Breath from Another" had. Her ex-partner Doc has been lost (seemingly down the memory hole, as she never seems to even mention him), and some ephemeralness has been lost as well, replaced with a new brashness that sounds a bit desperate. And with artists like Nelly Furtado and Fiest, Esthero's call for a musical 'revolution' has been addressed by others in this vein capably enough to not mourn Esthero's absence too much. Esthero had something special in "Breath"'s mash up of smoky trip-hop and sexy party-girl pop candy. "Wikkid" has a simpler personality - tho it is especially good ear-candy itself - and leaves a fainter impression because of it. Very good, but still a disappointment.
Description of Wikked Lil' Grrrls
Wikkid Lil' Grrrls is a sexy, sophisticated blend of hip-hop, jazz, dance, rock and soul. Add Cee-Lo Green of Goodie Mob, Sean Lennon and a crew of producers including Dr. Dre cohort Camara Kambon (Eminem, Mary J. Blige) and Wikked Lil' Grrrls is as wikked cool as Esthero herself.After the release of Esthero's heralded 1998 disc Breath from Another, the Toronto singer seemed to have an open road of opportunities ahead of her. Breath soared on people's best-of lists, allowing Esthero the chance to collaborate with everyone from the Black Eyed Peas and Mos Def to Sugar Ray. Her future seemed filled with long-term opportunity and promise. Strangely, however, after that bright burst, the singer all but disappeared. Aside from the occasional guest performance, it was seven years of curious silence. For being such a talented singer-songwriter--one deeply influenced by Nina Simone, Saul Williams, and Burt Bacharach--her jazzy, sultry, hip-hop grooves were timely, yet strangely absent. Finally, with Wikked Lil' Girls and its first single, "We R in Need of a Musical Revolution," the silence wasn't just broken, it was blown wide open. An acerbic, beat-driven track, the song unapologetically attacks the current state of pop music ("I'm so sick and tired of the s#@! on the radio") rightfully and righteously. The disc then shifts from uptempto timeless pop ("Every Day Is a Holiday," featuring Sean Lennon) to sexy downtempo ("Beautiful Lie") and then to a later section of slow songs and smooth jazz--a fluid rollercoaster of sound. The final song, "Dragonfly's Outro," is a gorgeous, float-on-clouds track with horns sampled from '80s soundtrack legend Bill Conti. Mixing up vocal styles, interesting samples, and great contemporary beats, it shows how great Esthero can be at her best--an amalgamation of many influences and her own talented, wikked ways. --Denise Sheppard
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