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Old 21st April 2013, 06:57 AM
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Well you guys can continue to love it but I really didn't know how bad it was (in my opinion) until I was going through it today. I'm like "Really?? This One is the only one I can tolerate??" In my memory I thought for the most part I felt the album was just kind of boring but on replay I realized it was just dreadful. Like, downright embarrassing for me, lol. If I had no idea who she was and without complete bias from any of her previous works and I heard this album I would probably play it for all my friends and say "Listen to this awful album I discovered, you will die!" Lol.

I thought it was mentioned that she let the producers handle the second album to really try and push through the American market. I could swear she decided to give up control of the second album in order to garner more success than the first.

I think Exodus has hints of Hikki in it and at least is somewhat recognizable as her work, but for TITO I can't even believe it's the same artist who made such great songs as Keep Tryin', Be My Last, This Is Love, Take 5, etc.