| Product Summary | | Label: LA FACE RECORDS/SBME | | UPC: 00886973139028 | | Release Date: 5/5/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210793755 | | Item#: M4LFHP | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Ciara To The Stage ~ Ciara |  | | 2. Love Sex Magic - (featuring Justin Timberlake) ~ Ciara | | | 3. High Price - (featuring Ludacris) ~ Ciara | | | 4. Turntables - (featuring Chris Brown) ~ Ciara | | | 5. Like A Surgeon ~ Ciara | | | 6. Never Ever - (featuring Young Jeezy) ~ Ciara | | | 7. Lover's Thing - (featuring The-Dream) ~ Ciara | | | 8. Work - (featuring Missy Elliott) ~ Ciara | | | 9. Pucker Up ~ Ciara | | | 10. G Is For Girl (A-Z) ~ Ciara | | | 11. Keep Dancin' On Me ~ Ciara | | | 12. Tell Me What Your Name Is ~ Ciara | | | 13. I Don't Remember ~ Ciara | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Ciara (vocals). | | Ciara's albums can always be relied upon to include a clutch of first-rate floor fillers. GOODIES boasted the skittering rhythms of "One, Two Step" and the elegantly uncluttered title track while 2006s CIARA: THE EVOLUTION impressed with "Promise" and "Like A Boy," a pair of down-tempo numbers that overshadowed brash would-be centerpieces like the Lil' Jon-produced "That's Right." Though FANTASY RIDE hardly represents a stylistic left turn for Ciara, the album's standout moments, like the Justin Timberlake-produced "Love Sex, and Magic" and Polow da Don's "Never Ever," list towards icy, `80s-derived electro-funk that borrows from the keyboard-saturated sheen of contemporary Atlanta hip-hop and the subtle pop futurism of more indie-oriented dance acts like Justice and MGMT. | | The final version of Ciara's third album, issued after several months of delay, is quite dissimilar from the one detailed in an August 2008 Billboard cover story. According to the article, Fantasy Ride was to be divided into three sections tentatively titled "Groove City," "Crunk Town," and "Kingdom of Dance." At some point between then and the album's May 2009 release, this concept was mercifully scrapped, quite possibly because the track list underwent some changes. Regardless, it would not be difficult to construct an imaginary three-part Fantasy Ride from the finished product, with each song easy to slot into one of the designations. Had Ciara stuck with the city/town/kingdom concept, "Groove City" would have been the most populous and happening of the three. A couple of these ballads and slow jams are up there with the highlights from Goodies and The Evolution -- no coincidence that both were written and produced by the-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart (Rihanna's "Umbrella," Beyonc?'s "Single Ladies"), the Jam and Lewis or Neptunes of their time. On the hypnotically winding "Like a Surgeon" (not a cover of Weird Al's Madonna parody), the-Dream provides some of his best, gimmicky, post-R. Kelly similes and metaphors, delivered by Ciara with all the necessary arrogance: "I appreciate your recovery time, but you need a physical one more time." "Keep Dancin' on Me," its opposite in sentiment, is as resigned and alluring as the-Dream's own "Fancy," swapping dejection for a kind of blissful yearning. Blink and you will miss what was to be "Crunk Town": "High Price" is a decent "Oh" revamp, with booming, low-end, creature-feature synths, and Ludacris all part of the mix, though Ciara's outlandish operatics are a new (and nice) touch. The five uptempo tracks that would have been "Kingdom of Dance" are uneven, exemplified by the hobbling flop that is "Love Sex Magic," an easily forgettable Justin Timberlake collaboration, and "Work," an over-stuffed dancefloor mess that does not benefit from Missy Elliott's hoarse hectoring. Even if Ciara imaginatively develops the "Super C" superhero introduced in the disc's booklet, she and her collaborators will have to work extra hard on the next album to ensure that she does not stall in a creative cul de sac. ~ Andy Kellman |
Musical Guests | | Justin Timberlake | | Ludacris | | Chris Brown | | Young Jeezy | | The-Dream | | Missy Elliott |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/05/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 88697313902 | | Label : Jive Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886973139028 |
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| | Bio | | | Ciara The title of her much-anticipated sophomore album says it all and as Grammy winning young superstar Ciara declares, "My second record is called The Evolution because I feel like I'm graduating to a whole new level creatively and musically. I co-wrote every song and co-produced many of the tracks on this record so it really reflects where I am as an artist. I had fun making my first album: with The Evolution, I had an actual plan of what I wanted to hear and the sounds I wanted on the record." Working with key hit-makers such as Pharrell Williams, will.i.am, Lil Jon, Dallas Austin, Rodney Jerkins, Polow and new players like Calvo and Brian Kennedy, Ciara -- whose 2004 debut album Goodies sold over three million copies worldwide -- was involved in the selection of producers for The Evolution as well as the development of the songs, a couple of which (such as "Do It," produced by wil.i.am and "Crush," a Lil Jon jam) were written on the spot in the studio. "What was really cool was that a lot of the producers I wanted to work with felt the same way about working with me," Ciara says. "Pharrell (Williams) said he had a song for me but when we got in the studio, we ended up writing a song from scratch which was "I Proceed," a track with a lot of energy. A lot of the tracks on this album are energetic like "Make It Last Forever," a real cool dance/party cut that Rodney (Jerkins) produced. He also did "Can't Leave 'Em Alone" which features 50 Cent. I toured with him so it was great having him on this record with me." The many music fans Ciara established worldwide through hit singles such as the three No. 1 singles -- "Goodies," and "1,2 Step," and "Oh" -- from Goodies, her Grammy-nominated debut CD -- have been eagerly awaiting her new CD, The Evolution, which includes chart and radio hit "Get Up" (from the Step Up soundtrack) and "Promise," the Ciara-penned first single -- with its steamy hot video directed by Diane Martel -- another immediate hit for the singer/songwriter. "A lot of the music on this album was inspired by old school records. There was a way music used to feel and I wanted to capture that," Ciara states. "I felt the inspiration from artists like Michael Jackson, Prince, TLC, Jodeci, Madonna: there was a certain groove I wanted to have and I think we got it on The Evolution. All I know is, it feels good with my soul!"
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