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Good,but they are like other female singers

E. Ollada | Canada | 03/19/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I'm also a kid but-umm..what's wrong with songs about getting pregnant or about what real teens go through?there's more to life than just breaking up-there's stuff like getting abused,drug-use,and other things like that.A song that you gotta love is "runaway love" by Ludacris ft. Mary j. blige.its about real things that kids/teens go through."

3-1/2 stars -- Good, but would've been better had it been a

Anthony Rupert | Milwaukee, WI | 05/04/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I discovered Paula DeAnda by accident; I turned on MTV Hits one day and saw her video for "Doing Too Much". I was impressed because she has a very good voice; still, like the title says, the song wasn't doing too much and her self-titled album in turn didn't debut at a very high spot on the Billboard 200. But after her second single "Walk Away (Remember Me)" began to grow on me, it renewed my interest in her, so I decided to check her out.



There is a good number of quality songs on here, like "Wanna Be With You", "When It Was Me", and especially "I'll Be Down For You". And "Overloved" is a lot better than most recent Diane Warren songs. The final track, "Footprints On My Heart", is one of those cases where the lyrics look kind of cheesy on paper, but they sound fine when you hear the song.



The thing that brings the album down, though, is that Paula really has a bad choice of guest rappers. At times their verses hurt otherwise great songs, like when the DEY can't even TALK on beat at the beginning of "Walk Away". And I shouldn't have been too surprised about Baby Bash's underwhelming verse on "Doing Too Much" because he's always wack, but another thing about that song is that I don't understand why Paula is doing the exact same adlibs during every chorus past the first verse.



"Easy" features Lil' Wayne saying something about "having more plaques (Plax} than tartar", and although I normally think Ak'Sent is underrated, she kicks a pretty okay verse on "Make `Em Clap to This", which is really just a lazy sample of Rakim's famous line from "Eric B. Is President". Speaking of those two songs, they also prove that maybe Paula should stick to ballads. All in all, this is still a good album, but for her next album she needs to leave the guest stars behind.



Anthony Rupert"