Jordin Sparks

Jordin Sparks

Track List

1. Tattoo
2. One Step At A Time
3. No Air (duet with Chris Brown)
4. Freeze
5. Shy Boy
6. Now You Tell Me
7. Next To You
8. Just For The Record
9. Permanent Monday
10. Young And In Love
11. See My Side
12. God Loves Ugly
13. This Is My Now

Amazon.com says:
Liking Jordin Sparks, American Idol's season six winner, comes instinctively. How many 17-year-olds are as self-possessed, as big-smiling, as committed to having a good time and keeping it real? Probably none. Liking Sparks' music has been a different story for fans anticipating her debut CD, though. The ballads here--songs like "Next To You" and "Just For the Record"--reach out at times with overeager sincerity (forgivable!), but the funkier numbers--"Young and In Love" and the Prince-flecked "Shy Boy," especially--slam home her positives. Jordin may still be a juvie, but she's a bona fide pop star. She earns her props as convincingly here as she did on TV.

Entertainment Weekly says:
Despite the misfires, Jordin Sparks is as much effervescent fun as any post-Idol bow. She's probably the least showboaty winner, so forget the go-for-broke ballads that legendary record man Clive Davis — absent from his usual role as exec producer of Idol champs' discs — might have favored. Instead, expect R&B-flavored froth-pop embellished with just enough vocal flourishes. Standouts include producers Bloodshy & Avant's three electro-pop contributions, especially ''Shy Boy.'' (If B&A made Britney's CD listenable, imagine what they can do with a singer.) Throughout, Sparks seems content to serve the song, whether that involves dramatic tension (''Now You Tell Me'') or a soft bed of layered harmonies (''See My Side''). True, Idol has crowned winners with even bigger voices, but it hasn't given us one who's any easier on the ears.
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