I really wasn’t expecting Jennifer Lopez’s fourth proper album to be all that great, because I learned early on that when an artist releases an average album and then follows it up with an album called Rebirth, it’s supposed to take us back to the good ol’ days when really the album just sucks (ask Keith Sweat). And after listening to the album, I discovered I was right.
Jennifer does sing a tad better on here than she did on This Is Me…Then (I still don’t know what that means), but it doesn’t really help matters that much. The album’s opener and first single, “Get Right”, is the kind of song that you like to listen to but you don’t want to admit it to anyone. But that’s the only song on here that really stands out. Other reviewers seem to like “Whatever You Wanna Do” and “Cherry Pie”, but I think both of those songs are unlistenable. And the sensual “Step Into My World” is really cheesy.
I think “Hold You Down” is overrated, and there’s something else I’d like to mention. It seems that whenever Fat Joe guests with one of his Latina sistas, he drops the corniest verses possible. I was able to tolerate him on Thalìa’s “I Want You”, but here he just makes a generic song worse, especially when he says to a foe: “Get behind me and J. Lo, I simply state/You’re better off sweepin’ leaves on a windy day.” Is he serious?
Most of the rest of the songs are filler, like “Ryde Or Die” and “I Got You”. But although the smooth “He’ll Be Back” isn’t THE greatest song, it’s still rather interesting to hear a Timbaland-produced song not made for the club. Anyway, since this is Jennifer Lopez, this album probably won’t have any trouble going multi-platinum, but if you weren’t won over by her vocals to begin with, then Rebirth definitely won’t do it for you.
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