give me some studio time and i'll gladly cook something up

>Brainchild, this is not to be
>mean or overly harsh.

ok.

>But, of all the subjective reviews
>I have read that said
>nothing about Voodoo, I must
>say that yours belongs squarely
>in their ranks.

i said nothing about Voodoo? what the fuck did I write up at the top of this post then?

>Voodoo "backfired?" How did it "backfire?"
>According to which standard? Certainly
>not commercially.

Voodoo backfired commercially due to bad marketing. It's sales could've increased sharply had the singles been chosen better.

>And from a
>"critical" standpoint - well, HA
>HA - cri-ticks PANNED Erykah's
>album and I think that
>that shit was 100% FEAR
>on their part. Badu made
>a record that moves gracefully
>through more changes than most
>artists' whole discographies.

i think there's a couple filler tracks on there, but yeah, mama's gun is excellent... although after "orange moon" i start waiting for the end to arrive.

>Dig on all the references made
>to Voodoo as a "bedroom"
>album - which I agree
>with - D's Let's Get
>It On if you will,

whoa... whoa... whoa... let's not do make that comparison yet. Give the album about 5 more years before you say stuff like that.

>and maybe you might see
>why it's ludicrous to talk
>about D's singles choices. I
>think you're looking at it
>all wrong.

albums aren't released just to make some kind of statement.

>The repetitiousness of that record is
>epiphany.

what's an epiphany to some may be a bad dream to others.

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