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Title: what's love got to do with it?
Review: Partnered with sadistic old Ike in the `70s, she was R&B's most physically provocative interpreter of howling, cat-scratched hedonism. But Teen's mellowed gracefully over the last two decades, so much so that someone must of forgotten to wake her up for this latest entreaty of adult contemporary zzzzzzz. Strictly speaking, 247 is a embarrassing formula album full of the same old hurtin' songs Turner's being turning out since Private Dancer; muted and predictable shrill globbed up with overripened hip hop/soul and wedding dance beats. While she's still effective when she's engrossed in full throttle balladeering, gone is the Tina who was once able to sing any sentiment and make it sound like it was torn from the flapping patchwork of her soul. Today, she's more like Aunt Jemina, drowning her R&B inclinations in a syrup of stiffened emotions and predictable studio belabourment. What's love got to do with it? Not a damn thing.
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