Paula DeAnda - Paula DeAnda
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Artist: Paula DeAndaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
- Doing Too Much
- Walk Away (Remember Me)
- Easy
- When It Was Me
- Overloved
- So Cold
- Good Girl
- Wanna Be With You
- Make 'Em Clap To This
- Breathe
- Let's Go Out Tonight
- I'll Be Down For You
- Footprints On My Heart
Music reviews of Paula DeAnda
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Rating: 4 Stars
If I didn't tell you she's barely sixteen. Seems like with the popularity of Rihanna, JoJo, and now Paula DeAnda, I guess the new popular thing now is young R&B singers. That's cool as long as they can sing, which at least all three of these can do. The main problem I have (more with JoJo than any young singer) is the writing. Most of the lyrics on Paula DeAnda's debut album are slim, and really weak. At least Ne-Yo wrote a few of these, so this album as a whole is tolerable lyrically.
For the most part the album contains of mostly R&B-lite like the two hit signles "Doing Too Much" and "Walk Away (Remember Me)". IF you're looknig for 13 songs that sound exactly like that you'll for the most part be satisfied. "When It Was Me" is similar to these both tracks, with a sweet and sour production and a "when I was that girl trying to make it big" message. At least it's more interesting than most of these tracks. Vocally it is as usual strong and makes a good, overall solid track. "Overloved" carries on the same production, maybe a bit stronger vocally than most tracks on the album. And, yes, it means over-loved, and like I said, you won't find very strong or inspiring lyrics here since the only writer well-known is Ne-Yo, and even then I think he's a bit overrated. "Good Girl" is a wise choice for an old-school R&B song without being too corny with the horns. Lyrically it is pretty average "I thought you could be the one, you're all I need", and that's where the corny comes in, but otherwise nothing makes it skippable. And there's no guest rapper to screw things up. "Wanna Be With You" is kinda average comparing to these other tracks. The production is like others, but seems a bit loopy, and suffers from a ridiculously weak chorus. V Nice (who?!) doesn't help or hurt the song. "Breathe" is much stronger, which is likely going to be a fourth single with it's catchy line "I need some time to breathe" and it's slicked-back old-school somewhat island styled production. Paula sounds great on it and seems very comfortable with it. "Footprints On My Heart" showcases her voice completely and is possibly stronger than "Breathe". It has a slick back production that sounds like it came off of SWV's Greatest Hits. Lyrically it also is better than most other songs on the album. ("I can't take this pain/We had something so beautiful") Still love lyrics but it's better than most and has the catchy title.
There is one last issue other than lyrics that make this only a four star album. Paula DeAnda really needs to stay off club songs and hip-hop, or at least work with some credible producers. The only hip-hop song that shows good is the overly catchy "Easy", and even that can be questionable at times with it's horrible rap by Lil' Wayne that has nothing to do with the song ("I'm already high/Have a gin in the sunset") Huh? It even gets worse with "Make 'Em Clap To This" is terrible wanna-be anthem, and proves DeAnda should be more R&B oriented. The song doesn't even HAVE a chorus, and Ak'Cent is wack as usual. But the album's worst offender is "Let's Go Out Tonight" is another wack song, P.B. is only slightly better than Raven Symone as far as rapping, and Paula DeAnda actually sound uncomfortable on the song herself, as her vocals sond a bit more tense. Kinda killed the song since the production had a good feel to itand like many tracks on the album, was old school.
Paula does need to work with some more writers than Ne-Yo and needs to lay off the unknown (tell me you've heard of P.B. and V Nice) rap guests but overall, a good middle-of-the-road choice for a solid female R&B album. You probably won't find anything that will shock you if the singles hadn't, but you will find some goods R&B cuts and a few vocally great ballads to add to your music collection (as long as you don't mind she's only 16, anyway). 4 stars.
Track Picks:
"Walk Away"
"Easy"
"Breathe"
"Footprints On My Heart"
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