Liking Jordin Sparks, American Idol's season six winner, comes instinctively. How many 17-year-olds are as self-possessed, as big-smiling, as committed to having a good time and keeping it real? Probably none. Liking Sparks' music has been a different story for fans anticipating her debut CD, though. Her gut-busting Idol performance of "I (Who Have Nothing)" was possibly her only prime-time goosebump generator, yet she's seen an instant progression to diva-dom, as … mehrchronicled in reports that found her heading into the studio alongside pop/R&B heavy-hitters Bloodshy, Avant, the Underdogs, and others. Was it a little soon for the relatively green Sparks to be throwing off such big-league, beat-heavy sparks? Well, not hardly, it turns out. The ballads here--songs like "Next To You" and "Just For the Record"--reach out at times with overeager sincerity (forgivable!), but the funkier numbers--"Young and In Love" and the Prince-flecked "Shy Boy," especially--slam home her positives. Jordin may still be a juvie, but she's a bona fide pop star. She earns her props as convincingly here as she did on TV. --Tammy La Gorce weniger
CD 1
01 - Tattoo (Main Version)
02 - One Step At A Time (Main Version)
03 - No Air (Main Version)
04 - Freeze (Main Version)… mehr
05 - Shy Boy (Main Version)
06 - Now You Tell Me (Main Version)
07 - Next To You (Main Version)
08 - Just For The Record (Main Version)
09 - Permanent Monday (Main Version)
10 - Young And In Love (Main Version)
11 - See My Side (Main Version)
12 - God Loves Ugly (Main Version)
13 - This Is My Now (Main Version) weniger