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The digital home of music journalist Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the bestselling biography of Gordon Lightfoot. Includes a searchable database of current and archived work, including thousands of record reviews and feature articles.
Ciara - Fantasy Ride
First there was Beyoncé’s alter ego Sasha Fierce. Now comes Ciara’s Super C, a comic-book character to showcase the singer’s “inner strength and more aggressive persona.” What next—a new X-Men with Jay-Z, Bow Wow and Kanye West as superheroes? Ciara’s latest boasts plenty of club-thumping tunes, including “High Price” and “Love Sex Magic,” both edgy duets with Ludacris and Justin Timberlake respectively. But, otherwise, Super C’s most distinctive quality is, sadly, just Ciara’s cold, robotic voice.
April 2009
