April 20, 201015 yr U Got Me is alright. I'm not a fan of those chanty tuneless hip-hop joints in general but it's better than Diva or Videophone for example.
April 20, 201015 yr Now, this I love. So much better than 'Ride', this has given me more hope about the album now.
April 24, 201015 yr Ride is terrible, U Got Me;s good tho. Neither of them can touch Work for epicness
April 24, 201015 yr 'Ride' is growing, but I still know it's completely throwaway. :( I'm pretty sure it'll be a 'buzz single' though :heehee:.
April 24, 201015 yr Finally got round to listening to 'Ride' in full and it's bloody awful :mellow: Was this a lost track from the 'Evoloution' era or something? Oh and to bandwagon.. 01 Work 02 Oh! 03 1,2 Step 04 Goodies ------------------------ 05 Love, Sex, Magic 06 Like A Boy 07 Never Ever ------------------------ 08 Get Up 09 Go Girl 10 Promise 11 Can't Leave 'Em Alone 12 And I 13 Ride I wish she'd try and improve on her sound for a change. That's why I love 'Work' and liked 'LSM' so much (well at the time anyway) coz they were different for her and she f***ing kicked ass with it. 'Fantasy Ride' was an improvement on her past albums, but it seems she's taken a step back now. I dunno if I wanna listen to that 'U Got Me' or whatever it's called... I think I should seeing as people here say it's better than 'Ride'... Oh and please give up on Ludacris, CiCi. EDIT: just heard that 'Basic Instinct' song, it was better than 'Ride', but it was still awful. Now I'm off to go play some Keri :)
April 24, 201015 yr LOL. Keri really has taken Ciara's place in the industry hasn't she? I love how a leaked edit of U Got Me includes a bit of a diss at Keri but Cici didn't even have the nerve to use it for the final video version. And Jon, The Evolution poos all over Fantasy Ride! I generally don't like albums which don't have any direction and fail to be cohesive.
April 24, 201015 yr Author Im sorry but Keri is hardly the new Ciara, maybe when she has more than one hit song, and an album to match. I seriously dont see how people can prefer the likes of Cant Leave Em' Alone, and Go Girl to Ride. It isn't her greatest song but its still pretty good.
April 24, 201015 yr It's just total nothing. I tend to dislike songs which don't have any obvious chorus, hook or melody - there has to be something. Ride seems like the world's longest song because nothing whatsoever actually happens and you feel like you could pop off and make a cup of tea and perhaps a sandwich too before it finally ends. I'm not saying I prefer Keri to Ciara as an artist because Keri is only one album into her career and Ciara has a back catalogue with plenty of gems in but currently there's no doubting that only one of them is bringing the 'goodies' and it ain't the incredible supersexual call me Cici. Can't Leave 'Em Alone is glorious FYI! And just to be pedantic Keri has had two US hits (Turnin' Me On was massive on urban if I recall correctly) and a #1 in Germany (a bigger market than the UK) with I Like. :D
April 25, 201015 yr Keri the new Ciara :lol: made me laff. The video for Ride is awsum her best yet I fink :)
April 25, 201015 yr To follow up on Jarks comments, there is most certainly a hook in the song, that is really complemented by the backing track (that being "Try-y-y-y--y me" & "Buy-y-y-y--y me"). It's been stuck in my head since I heard the song. Keri Hilson hasn't been in the game as a singer for long, but she has done pretty well. "In a Perfect World..." did outsell "Fantasy Ride" (which wasn't hard), and she scored hits with "Turnin' Me On" & "Knock You Down" (the former was a hit on Urban radio as Jark pointed out). However, she hasn't managed to spawn any hits on her own, so I don't think she's a real force in the industry at the moment. She only wishes she could have swag CiCi posesses in the "Ride" video...
April 25, 201015 yr Pffft. Please. Swag is so effortless for Kereh! :P "Swag" is Ms Keri Baybeh's middle name :smoke: Ciara's hardly scored many hits on her own either. All her biggest ones were given "featuring" credits too.. 01 Work (Missy Elliott) 02 Oh! (Ludacris) 03 1,2 Step (Missy Elliott) 04 Goodies (Petey Pablo) ------------------------ 05 Love, Sex, Magic (Justin Timberlake) 06 Like A Boy 07 Never Ever (Young Jeezy) ------------------------ 08 Get Up (Chamillionaire) 09 Go Girl (T-Pain) 10 Promise 11 Can't Leave 'Em Alone (feat. Fiddy) 12 And I 13 Ride (feat. Ludacris) Only 3 where she's been given solo credits. (Unless a couple of those were remixes in which I heard. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the videos featuring these rappers). But I am aware she used to be such a strong album seller. She's lost it. She needs to move on from this same, dated sound or give up. (All in my opinion obviously) I'll look forward to the day Ciara's sat outside selling her Big Issue and Keri's just walking by with her posse and her swag. :)
April 25, 201015 yr Author Keri isnt bringing anything at the moment right now though, and Ciara has had more substantial worldwide success with her previous albums than Keri has. I downloaded an edited version of Ride that cuts out Ludacris, and is just a bit more shortened and its works so much better, I agree that the original version goes on far too long.
April 25, 201015 yr The video was a bit boring :manson: although i like her dancing, she can REALLY dance :D the song (Ride) is growing on me :) first listen and i clicked with it Edited April 25, 201015 yr by WillR0713
April 25, 201015 yr Keri isnt bringing anything at the moment right now though, and Ciara has had more substantial worldwide success with her previous albums than Keri has. I downloaded an edited version of Ride that cuts out Ludacris, and is just a bit more shortened and its works so much better, I agree that the original version goes on far too long.I think 'The Way I Are' was bigger than anything Ciara has ever done. :kink: But yeah. Of course Ciara is more successful globally overall, considering Keri's only just released her first album (new single in the next month or so, so expect the second album to be there too). But Keri's album trounced 'Fantasy Ride' Worldwide. So it just shows people are currently more interested in Keri and are quite bored of Ciara. Well that's how I personally see it anyway.
April 27, 201015 yr Author Ride is at #73 on US Itunes, which is good considering Go Girl and Never Ever had videos and much more airplay and barely made top #100 on Itunes when they were released. Edit: Now #61 :D. Edited April 27, 201015 yr by J-o-e
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