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Title: C'mon Natalie, you can do better than this!
Review: This album is just awful. I didn't even buy it. I listened to the snippets on [...] and if that is any indication, this album will be a total flop. How can reviewers call this music R&B;? First of all, the song selections are terrible. Natalie either chose songs that were too recent to cover (i.e. Fiona Apple's "Criminal", Sting's "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" or Des'ree's "You Gotta Be") or songs that will be forever labeled as belonging to the original recording artist (Neil Young - "Old Man" and Bonnie Raitt "Love Letter"). I don't know what drew Natalie to choose these songs but whatever the reason, her interpretations don't come across as sincere. Listening to the samples left me empty.I prefer Natalie's jazz albums. That genre of music better suits her voice, particularly as she gets older. This is a poor attempt at a pop music comeback and will likely go down as one of the stinkers in 2006.
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