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(42 customer reviews) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fortunate!!,
October 5, 2005 Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Life: Music Inspired By The Motion Picture (Audio CD)
Comprising music that hardly features in the movie (LOL!!) and largely produced by R Kelly and Wyclef (with some help from Darkchild on 1 track), this is a stunning R&B collection from a stellar cast of performers.
`It's like everyday' by DJ Quik (featuring R Kelly) is an outstanding sleek bubbly rap. `Stimulate me' is by the soon-to-explode Destiny's Child. Both are R Kelly compositions/productions. `Every which way' by Talent and Vegas Cats is an R Kelly production with some help from Darkchild.
`It's gonna rain' is an R Kelly ballad featuring the powerful vocals on Kelly Price. Vocally, it starts off delicate and builds up in intensity with Price soaring towards the end.
`Discovery' starts off as a piano/string ballad, with percussion and more instruments filtering in along the way, and featuring an outstanding performance from Brian McKnight. In a similar vein is the ballad `Follow the wind' featuring country singer Trisha Yearwood. Both are R...Read more
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
superior,
January 20, 2003 Kimberley Wilson (VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Life: Music Inspired By The Motion Picture (Audio CD)
This isn't a true soundtrack. The music is INSPIRED by the movie. Having said that, it's also one of the best soundtracks to come out in the 90s. Every song on this album is great except for the offensive Stimulate Me. Why Destiny's Child did that one I don't know. The standouts are Brian Knights'gorgeous rendition of Discovery and Maxwell's Fortunate. Trisha Yearwood makes a powerfu stand with Follow the Wind. Speechless by the Isley's is sexy and smooth--Ron Isley's falsetto will send chills down your spine and Life by K.C. and Jo Jo sums up the movie.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This CD is worth it just for the Maxwell and K. Price songs,
March 30, 2000 By A Customer
This review is from: Life: Music Inspired By The Motion Picture (Audio CD)
I heard "Fortunate" and "It's Gonna Rain" on the radio for the past couple of months, and have been searching Amazon high and low to see what CD contained those songs. I was so pleased to find them on one CD, and, because of that, it will be in heavy rotation on my stereo. Those two songs just *talk* to me; they are powerful, deep expressions of emotion. Imagine my surprise when I saw that they were both written by R. Kelly (as were most of the album's songs). I never had any respect for his work before, because I thought he was just cheesy, but a man who can write some spiritual stuff like this deserves some credit.The rest of the album is iffy, but these two cuts made purchasing it worthwhile to me.
