Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222030 in Music
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Christina Milian may be another graduate from the Disney Channel school of precocious teen presenters turned pop stars, but as her self-titled debut demonstrates she's got a lot more "balls" than your average Britney or Mandy. As well as co-penning Jennifer Lopez "Play", having a number one US single with super cool Ja Rule (the pair team up again on album track "Get Away") she's also co-written the majority of the tracks on the album.

Concise and perfectly formed, the majority of the 11 tracks are adventurous, poppy R'n'B numbers, which reflect the trials and tribulations of teenage life. "Twitch" is a remarkably catchy number, guaranteed to make you jolt to the repetitive rhythm of the tune. The Artful Dodger produced track "Satisfaction Guaranteed", sounds more Shanks and Bigfoot, than Craig David. Proving that she has got some manners and she's not at it "…Three sixty-five days a year, twenty-four a day" (as the pumping "AM To PM" suggests), Christina closes with the Toni Braxton style ballad "Thank You". --John Galilee

Customer Reviews

lively music and singing
The songs on this cd don't sound all that different from one another or from what other people have on offer but don't let that detract from the fact that the tracks are nice to listen to and lively and uplifting.I'm going to buy another of Christina's cds -she's certainly worth having a listen to.If you watch the film Be Cool ( John Travolta,Uma Thurman,Christina and others) you'll see her singing and dancing on stage with the lead singer of the band Aerosmith - so she's quite a versatile performer.

Christina Milian
I don't actually own any other Christina Milian albums, so I can't compare this to them.
This is definitely the style of music that I love. This CD is full of hip hop/pop sounding songs.
Christina has contributed to writing some of the tracks from this, she also wrote the song "play" for J lo.
My favorite tracks include, AM to PM and when you look at me.

New Girl On The Block
What we have here is the debut release from hot young R'n'B star, Christina Milian. Signed to Def Soul Recordings, expectations for this album were extremely high, and so to the time and money that Milian's label put behind the LP. Unfortunatley for her, the album was a disaster in the country which her label wanted it to be a hit in, the USA. It's video's dropped out of rotation, radio seemed to hate the material and it's sales were sluggish and never picked up. That said, she found a huge following in both the UK and Europe, and singles 'AM to PM' and 'When You Look At Me' were both huge Top 5 smashes, and helped to push the album up to platinum status.

The album truly is a mixed bag. Here are some excellent songs that show what potential young Christina has, but other's are suggesting that she will be lucky to see a third, or even second album. Stand out tracks include (obviously) the two singles 'AM to PM' and 'When You Look At Me', both of which are very enjoyable and Milian has performed them down to perfection. But non-singles that stand out are 'Twitch' - an edgy R'n'B song that sounds like it should be on the TLC 'FanMail' album - it even has the digital voice of Vic-E (hardcore TLC fans will know what I'm talking about ;-). 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' offers a banging instrumental and feel-good lyrics. It sounds more like a slick UK Garage track and wouldn't be out of place on an Artful Dodger record. Actually, its my personal favourite and I think it's an outstanding edition to the album. 'A Girl Like Me' puts Milian firmly back in Hip-Hop Flavoured R'n'B land, however and is a very worthy edition. Nice flow to it and the Jermaine Dupri appearance is hot. I am in two minds about 'You Make Me Laugh', because although I can relate to the song and I like the instrumental, there are a few things that bug me about it. Firstly, the hideously cliche'd use of 'Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones, But your Words will never Hurt Me' throughout the song make it cringe worthy. 'Got To Have You' is another simply great feel-good track though, and again the instrumental here is nice and original, I love the use of violin's on that track.

It was difficult to rate this album. The tracks I like, which I mentioned, would make it worthy of a 5 if they were backed up by equally good material but they are not. The rest of this album is simply weak. It feels as though Milian has missed the boat, the likes of Ashanti who she is competing for the same market with went just before her and frankly, had a higher quantity of decent material. I would say that this shows Milian's potential, but it's obvious from the quality here and the sales it reached that her sophomore album really will be make or break.