Sounds like the bad girl gone good. For her third album, 37-year-old Tweet resisted hooking up with longtime co-conspirators Missy Elliott and Timbaland for some scandalously seductive bangers.
She made her name on 2002’s “Oops (Oh My)” (Goldmind/Elektra) with Tim’s gyrating production and Missy’s lyrical struts about touching her own…southern hummingbird. But these days she’s ditched the major labels and signed with Jheryl Busby’s quiet indie. And from beneath Umbrella’s shelter, Tweet has exposed herself—her inner self.
No longer a caricature of strong female sexuality, here Tweet is singing gentle, nuanced songs about the life-size romantic experiences and desires of a feeling woman.
On “Them There Eyes Anymore,” she juxtaposes love-at-first-sight naïveté with the awareness of how a come-and-go lover can blindside. It quickly moves from a flirty, unguarded melody to a wary foottapping chorus: “It’s like I don’t know you, it’s like I don’t know you, anymore, anymore.”
Later, the confessional “Real Lady” is Charlene “Tweet” Keys’ vulnerable sister version of Alicia Keys’ declarative 2001 “A Woman’s Worth.” “Gotta treasure her worth when you’re with a real lady…I’m a diamond in the rough waiting to be found,” she sings. New-school songbirds may flaunt their sexuality, but Tweet’s been around that block. The reflective old soul now wants the self-satisfaction of coming into her own…like a real lady.
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breast47 says:
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I can't wait!
June 13, 2008 at 2:26 pm