Epinions Recent Reviews for tigger500

Corey Clark [CD & DVD] - Corey Clark: It's merely...okay.

Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:05:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Corey Clark’s album represents all the contradictions that infuriate me with young singers who come into the industry and try to stake out their place. It’s overlong, but well constructed. It’s listenable, but doesn’t move you hardly at...

Emote the SH*T out of it, Ma!!!

Sun, 1 May 2005 20:48:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Here's the thing about Fantasia Barrino. Ma, can sing her a** off. And I'm not talkin' the American Idol oversinging, moronic Celine/Whitney/Mariah derivative bullsh*t. I'm talkin' jazz inflected, soul stirring, from the church I need Jesus...

Like A Fine Wine

Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:25:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - PREAMBLE I have to be honest about my bias regarding Janet Jackson. I am biased in that I look at all her work in comparison to The Velvet Rope, her 6th album masterpiece (not counting Design of a Decade). Upon buying All For...

The Second Coming? Y'all aint ready!

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:55:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - It's perhaps meaningful that it has been a full decade since Adina Howard has released an album. Do You Wanna Ride was a brilliant ode to the need for sex masking a need for love. It was also hampered by a sh*tty ad campaign that chose to...

Of Endless Abstraction and Lazy Vocals.

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:51:37 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - I have been toying with writing reviews of Jill Scott’s 3 albums for about a year. My reluctance has always been more that I felt I would never be able to articulate all the things that make Jill Scott, for me, an aural snooze while still making it...

Can someone help Michelle off dat bridge?

Sat, 25 Dec 2004 04:55:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - I, like I think most people on the planet, have a love/hate relationship with Destiny's Child. I love to hear them sing. I hate that they don't do it more. I love many of their singles (No No No, Bills Bills Bills, Emotions, Bootylicious, Lose My...

Afrodisiac? Am I supposed to be turned on?

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:39:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - It took me a while to truly decide how I felt about Brandy’s new jawn, Afrodisiac. A coworker of mine (who is also a big fan) asked me if it was good and I immediately said, “It’s good but its not as good as Full Moon.”...

PART II--Maturation: Supreme Confidence

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:29:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - This album is on my list of underrated R&B albums of the 90's...REA
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IT!!! "Love In Stereo" is not notable for the maturation, the slightly more assured writing and arranging than its predecessor. It's not...

PART I--Inception: Nascent Genius. Controlled Intensity

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:44:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - This album is on my list of underrated R&B albums of the 90's...REA
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IT!!! I've decided to do a three-part review dedicated to chronicling the rapid, and peerless, growth of perhaps the finest pure talent of...

Umm...its just really bad...really.

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:40:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Is there anything more vile and repulsive than the romantic comedy? Is it possible that with each month, a cookie-cutter romantic comedy will be stupider, more banal, and more offensive than the last? The answer, of course, is yes. The characters...

A Beacon...in case Will Smith continues to make crappy movies.

Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:21:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - For me, Will Smith is the most confounding black movie star to emerge in the 90’s. He wields tons of power but doesn’t seem concerned with developing too many of his own projects, especially of a decidedly black nature. Unlike Sam Jackson (producer of...

Riveting! Brendan Fraser Flogs Himself.

Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:48:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - The Passion of Darkly Noon. Sounds like a romance novel. Or, more accurately, a porn film. But it happens to be the title of a fine film starring Brendan Fraser in what is perhaps his greatest most unflinching portrayal to date. But...

You Can Count On Me....to screw up and love you in spite of myself

Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:40:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - This film boasts one of the most complex scripts (by writer/director Kenneth Lonergan) about sibling relationships in a long while...since probably William McNamara's Radio Inside. It is so subtle that one might think that nothing is happening...

Of Imbedded Misogyny And Love In The Hood

Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:46:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - This movie is a little special to me. By that I mean, this is the movie where my two favorite (and...

Missy's Black Album, her Rage....and her Best

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:33:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Missy Elliott is destined to be that odd superstar. The one that is hugely influential and funny...

Force Of Nature - Tank (R&B): Force Of Nature? I think so...

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:26:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - One of the biggest mistakes black folk have collectively made was the assumption that classic soul musicians’ choice to sing secular music over gospel was somehow a categorical indictment of religion and spirituality itself. That coupled with Al Green...

It's Astonishing...I'm buggin'

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:21:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - As I sit here, I am immediately aware that I’m about to gush over Beyoncé Knowles. And I’m real mad...

A Dash Of Classical And A Lil' Soul

Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:26:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Losing Dawn Robinson and time were crushing blows to En Vogue in 1997. It wasn’t because she was the best, but four part harmonies are the most common and the arrangements are fuller than for trios and less manic and showy than five part harmonies...

From Start To Finish

Fri, 30 May 2003 19:11:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - THIS IS REALLY LONG...ENJOY :)

Writing this review proved to be much more difficult than any other music review I’ve yet written. I usually do a lot of research on the artists and read reviews to get an idea of the perceptions...

Most slept on girl group

Sun, 18 May 2003 18:53:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Xscape was a girl group that Jermaine Dupri signed in 1993 to broaden the appeal and scope of his growing So So Def label. Consisting of four girls, Kandi Burress, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, and sisters Tamika and LaTocha Scott, Xscape was to be what...

Holy GUITARS, Madge!! Is that Earnest on you?

Sun, 18 May 2003 17:29:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - How exactly does one review a Madonna album?

Artists like Madonna tend to be critic-proof. Her artistry is so entrenched in every thing modern and post modern in contemporary pop, it's like trying to rate the new Vanilla soda on the...

Hip-Hop's Very Own "Tragic Mulatto" Or...The Confusion Of Foxy Brown In Transition

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:15:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Who is Foxy Brown?

I’m inclined to say she is easily one of the top 5 femcees working. And when I say that, I mean in terms of raw ability, Foxy is one of the best. But I know y’all are gonna blow up my sh*t about image, and money,...

One nasty little tape and a lotta doubt

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:50:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Number 9 on my list of Best Films of 2001-http://www.epinions.com/content_2997002372

Richard Linklater is the more talented version of Kevin Smith. He is also the more overtly pretentious. As such,...

Of Quick Drafts And Lack Of Coverage; Cinema's First, (Perhaps Only) First Draft

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:24:00 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - You know what happens when you let fools finance films? You know what happens when actors overestimate their own abilities and make movies they clearly aren’t right for? Do you know what happens when a film is thrown together so quickly and looks...

Plight of the Terminal Background Singer Or...Why Kelly Rowland Might Be Destined To Fail.

Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:28:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tigger500 - Way way way at the bottom of my post on 2002 music (shameless plug http://www.epinions.com/content_3057361028) under horrible trends is a statement regarding debut albums by members of vocal groups. Yep, folks what we...