Album Reviews: Jessica Mauboy

I know this was supposed to be up a few weeks ago but i had so much going on. Well here is 1 album reviews for Jessica Mauboy

Album reviews for Adele, Tyga and Tynisha Keli will be up soon.

Lets start with Jessica Mauboy.

Album Title : Get em Girls

Genre: Urban Pop/Dance

Track Listing: 1. Get 'Em Girls (featuring Snoop Dogg) 2. Handle It 3. Accelerate That4. Scariest Part    5. Saturday Night (featuring Ludacris) 6. What Happened to Us 7. Reconnected 8. Like This
9. Foreign 10. Can Anybody Tell Me 11. Fight For You 12. Maze 13. Here For Me
14. No One Like You 15. Forget Your Name (bonus track)

Well, the album is finally here and if you hated the urban sound, be prepared, because Mauboy favours heavy Beyonce beats over the dance/pop sound heard on her debut album. The album opens with first single Get 'Em Girls which by a track standing on its own isn't horrid by any measure, but the music video just ruined it, so it's a rather bittersweet feeling when you re-listen to the track. The album then moves on to the even more urban sounding Handle It and Accelerate That. The album then prods on mindlessly before landing itself on Scariest Part, a nice ballad that really hits its stride when Mauboy lets loose of her vocal power on the chorus. It then returns to another uptempo number Saturday Night featuring Ludacris which is the album's second single. I'm not sure whether Ludacris actually improves the track but it's still catchy and will have no problem racking up some airplay Get 'Em Girls never could. The album then moves on to a tender ballad with Jay Sean called What Happened To Us which happens to be one of the album's highlights.

The next track opens with a very Coldplay Viva La Vida-esque strings section before it morphs into a very Kristinia DeBarge Powerless type of track lyrically. The next track Like This features yet another big name in the form of Iyaz. This track remains forgettable even after a couple plays. Foreign sees Mauboy return to the urban sound that has enough sass in it to differentiate it from the other urban-sounding number Handle It. Can Anybody Tell Me is a forgettable track. Toss this into the same pile as Like This suffers from.

Fight For You tries to be a cross between Jordin Spark's Battlefield and Cheryl Cole's Fight For This Love but is ultimately not as fierce as the former or brilliant as the latter. Still, don't write this off too soon, it's a grower. Maze is a solid album track that sounds like it could do well as a single but as an album track, it's just like some of the other tracks on the album so it doesn't feel like it's as good as it really is. Here For Me is another solid album track that also has potential to be a single, fitting into current Top 40 radio fare. No One Like You is a sweet ballad that is supposedly about her boyfriend which though is sweet, verges on a little boring. Forget Your Name, the bonus track sees Mauboy's smooth vocals run over a thumping beat and sounds like a fiercer version of Up/Down from her debut album though it's not half as good as the latter.

All in all, it's a solid album with a few standout tracks that do have single potential. Mauboy has the potential to rival Beyonce for her crown as the reigning pop/R&B/urban superstar on the charts if she gets some better material.

RATING: 4.5 out of 5 stars