Amerie, “Why R U” returning with such a lacklustre number?
It gives me no pleasure to have a dig at the frightfully beautiful Amerie, but “Why R U” sounds sadly R&B by numbers, doesn’t it?
From the instant classic “One Thing” through to her undeservedly overlooked last album Because I Love It (which barely had a release in the States), Amerie has tended to deliver pop fare of a distinctive and infectious nature. “Crush” remains one of the best pop songs most people never heard, for instance. “Why R U” unfortunately signals a change for the bland.
“Why R U” is the first track from forthcoming album In Love & War, which is to be released on Def Jam. Let’s hope deffer jams lie in wait… Until then I suppose we can always just look at her.
[via Concreteloop]
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[...] Amerie’s new one “Heard ‘Em All” is a frantic, tribal-beats-y kind of thing, with lots of great “uh-huh”s and “hey hey”s. I liked it after two listens, which makes it about an 8/10 on the immediacy scale. Clearly “One Thing” was an 11, but let’s give the poor girl a break because very few people ever produce a song that perfect and then have the misfortune to find themselves judged against it forever. [...]