I'm going to make this review brief, because honestly I am not a big O fan. First I will say that O's last solo album 21 was good, but I kind of had a feeling that Ollusion was going to be a disappointment. First off, he took WAAAYYY to long to put out his follow up to 21 (I don't count Faceoff as a Omarion album), taking a little over three years to put out a very short album. Second, he made triple label switch before this album going from the decent T.U.G label, to Lil Wayne's monster Young Money label, than switched again to the EMI label...what was he thinking??? I personally think he would have been just fine staying with T.U.G./Universal, and he surely would have been successful on Young Money, but when he left Young Money for EMI thats where I lost him, because Marques Houston did the same thing earlier in 2009 when he left TUG for EMI and his last album (Mr. Houston) absolutely flopped on the charts and it was pretty bad. It could be potentially career ending for Marques Houston? So why did his half-brother (Music & Blood lol) make the exact same dangerous move??? I don't have a clue, but it definitely did make a large difference in his music and not in a good way. The production on Ollusion is the first big problem i noticed with the album, as it was pretty evident that the label downgrade brought in a lot less big names on the production credits. Previous collaborator Tank (The Underdogs) and T-Pain are the only truly big name producers on the album, and they both only contribute one track. "I Get It In", produced by Tank is the extremely catchy first single, and O does kind of bite Lil' Wayne's mumbling rap style on this track, but its still one of the few standouts on the album. And the T-Pain produced "Sweet Hangover" is another very catchy potential single with more mid tempo club track that you would expect from T-Pain complete with his signature snaps and the dreaded auto-tune, but luckily for Omarion, he pulls it off with this track. But other than those two tracks, and the mid tempo ballad "Speedin" and the relaxed "What Do You Say", everything on the album is completely forgettable. Where Omarion really messed up on this album was with the cheap knock off production from no-namers like 253 (who produced almost half the album), Detail (Ray J's Main Producer...thats all that needs to be said), and Marques Houston (lol). And even though Maddscientist is an alright producer, "I Think My Girl Is Bi" is a terrible and extremely annoying...it's very similar to a club/radio track from Lady Gaga, which means that even though the song is absolutely terrible and annoying, it could potentially be a hit. And "Temptation" sounds like a cheap knock off of Usher's "Confessions"... A really, really, really cheap knock off. And both tracks produced by Mr. Houston himself are terribly boring attempts at babymakers. Overall Ollusion just kind of comes off as rushed and cheap. I mean its not a terrible album, its just nothing special...at all. I mean look at the first week sales of all three of his albums, 2005's "O"- 195,000 units sold 1st week, 2006's "21"- 119,000 units sold 1st week, and 2010's "Ollusion"- 21,200 copies sold 1st week...thats a bad falloff.

Grade:
C
I'm going to make this review brief, because honestly I am not a big O fan. First I will say that O's last solo album 21 was good, but I kind of had a feeling that Ollusion was going to be a disappointment. First off, he took WAAAYYY to long to put out his follow up to 21 (I don't count Faceoff as a Omarion album), taking a little over three years to put out a very short album. Second, he made triple label switch before this album going from the decent T. U.G label, to Lil Wayne's monster Young Money label, than switched again to the EMI label... what was he thinking??? I personally think he would have been just fine staying with T. U.G./Universal, and he surely would have been successful on Young Money, but when he left Young Money for EMI thats where I lost him, because Marques Houston did the same thing earlier in 2009 when he left TUG for EMI and his last album (Mr. Houston) absolutely flopped on the charts and it was pretty bad. It could be potentially career ending for Marques Houston? So why did his half-brother (Music & Blood lol) make the exact same dangerous move??? I don't have a clue, but it definitely did make a large difference in his music and not in a good way. The production on Ollusion is the first big problem i noticed with the album, as it was pretty evident that the label downgrade brought in a lot less big names on the production credits. Previous collaborator Tank (The Underdogs) and T-Pain are the only truly big name producers on the album, and they both only contribute one track. "I Get It In", produced by Tank is the extremely catchy first single, and O does kind of bite Lil' Wayne's mumbling rap style on this track, but its still one of the few standouts on the album. And the T-Pain produced "Sweet Hangover" is another very catchy potential single with more mid tempo club track that you would expect from T-Pain complete with his signature snaps and the dreaded auto-tune, but luckily for Omarion, he pulls it off with this track. But other than those two tracks, and the mid tempo ballad "Speedin" and the relaxed "What Do You Say", everything on the album is completely forgettable. Where Omarion really messed up on this album was with the cheap knock off production from no-namers like 253 (who produced almost half the album), Detail (Ray J's Main Producer... thats all that needs to be said), and Marques Houston (lol). And even though Maddscientist is an alright producer, "I Think My Girl Is Bi" is a terrible and extremely annoying... it's very similar to a club/radio track from Lady Gaga, which means that even though the song is absolutely terrible and annoying, it could potentially be a hit. And "Temptation" sounds like a cheap knock off of Usher's "Confessions"... A really, really, really cheap knock off. And both tracks produced by Mr. Houston himself are terribly boring attempts at babymakers. Overall Ollusion just kind of comes off as rushed and cheap. I mean its not a terrible album, its just nothing special... at all. I mean look at the first week sales of all three of his albums, 2005's "O"- 195,000 units sold 1st week, 2006's "21"- 119,000 units sold 1st week, and 2010's "Ollusion"- 21,200 copies sold 1st week... thats a bad falloff. Grade:
C