Album Review: Queen Latifah’s Persona

in Music by tigger500 — September 15, 2009 at 10:03 am | 2 comments

Queen Latifah has a real urge to get her dance on.

Her new album, Persona, is a mélange of styles funneled through the sterile house-inspired production of hip hop producers Cool and Dre that is clearly aimed at the dance floor.

But this is the most boring, lifeless dance record since Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor. And though the album is only 14 tracks long, it feels much much longer. And Latifah’s voice is digitized within an inch of its life, stripping any of the songs of the urgency that they really need to soar as dance floor mainstays.

Go read the rest on Popmatters.

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