Jaheim | “Another Round”
Rating: 5 out of 5
Release Date: February 9th, 2010
“Ain’t Leavin Without You”
This is the opening track to the album and it was a smart decision because this track is great. Jaheim’s voice flows on this track like we are use to and gives you that old school R&B vibe. Throughout the song Jaheim kept up with his usual style of singing. Almost like a reintroduction of him and his style.
“Finding My Way Back”
This is another hot song! A true slow jam love song, Jaheim’s voice once again flows over the beat and is sure to melt any young woman or man listening to it. This track is one of my favorites. It tells a story of an anxious Jaheim trying to find his way back to his woman’s heart. It’s that type of song that one can put on, really low, while entertaining your perspective partner for the night, and chill!
“Whoa”
Here is an up tempo love song which tells how a woman can make a man say ‘whoa’ over her, ‘cause nothing else can explain how you feel. It’s a true woman empowering love song, as he keeps everything positive with nothing vulgar or explicit pertaining to her body or what she is capable of doing in the bedroom, just good old emotions!
“Till It Happens To You”
This song makes you happy as soon as you hear it. It’s a song about love and all the happiness that comes with being loved and being in love. We often find love in unfamiliar places and times in our life and when it happens to you, you can help but to embrace it. Jaheim channeled a lot of real life situations in this song and the transition from one story to another is done exceptionally well! A true inspirational song about love and happiness!
“Bed Is Listening”
This song has a feel of another song of his off one of his previous albums. The beat goes in and out, it’s sort of a mid tempo kind of song. It talks of how a woman can be so quick to turn her back on her man. Going around gossiping with friends and family members at the first sign of trouble but forgets all the things the “bed” has seen and heard. This is a relationship type song where it seems like Jaheim is proclaiming that he can fix the issues him and his woman has with sex..? I’m assuming the sex must be that great!
“Impossible”
Now this is really an old OLD school track, with the beat, arrangements, and background singers to boot. It’s very nice and calm, another love song. As one can see, that is the theme he is going for which is a good look for him as it works well with his voice!
“Another Round”
The only club banger of the album, this song has an upbeat tempo. I’m not sure who made this call to write and produce this song but it works well as it’s not over done or overly cheesy. But the lyrics speak on how Jaheim keeps getting these girls at the bar drinks in hope for ‘another round’ back as his place. Overall, it’s cool but not what I was expecting.
“Her”
This friendly upbeat track praises a woman and how her man can’t be without ‘her’. It’s written very beautifully and screams the fun times of being in love. He is really bringing love back!
“II Pink Lines”
If you haven’t caught on, the title ‘II Pink Lines’ stands for the two lines on a pregnancy test. This song is the future father’s song of the decade! I’ve never heard such a song that praises fatherhood and the joys of waiting and anticipating the arrival of a baby. It makes me want to run out and have a baby! PAUSE… Nah!
“Otha Half”
This should or could be a hand guide to all you men out there letting your women go without truly saying what’s on your mind. Jaheim speaks on losing his woman, how bad he misses her and all the emotions and tears that were shed. His “otha half” is gone and isn’t coming back.
“Closer”
Another song that speaks on feeling lost and incomplete without a woman by his side; this song is hot. The slow tempo of this song gives a 90’s R&B feel to it. ‘Closer’ brings me back to that era of music where things weren’t so trashy and explicit but where people sung their hearts out on a track!
“In My Hands”
This song is something like a modern day wedding song; it tells a REAL LOVE story. Jaheim came hard on this one and his emotions can be felt on this song. The beat stays slow in tempo as he sings his love for his woman which he is about to marry. For all those couples out there that plan on marrying anytime soon, I think this will be a great contender for that perfect wedding song.
“Ain’t Leaving Without You (Featuring Jadakiss)”
This has the same lyrics of the original song but has rapper Jadakiss on the track. Nice remix, but I prefer the original.
Overall, “Another Round” is one of today’s best R&B albums that I have heard in a while, even beating my choice Robin Thicke’s latest album! I hope Jaheim sells well but in today’s market of overly saturated crap music and bubble gum singers, real hardcore love songs and good R&B music just doesn’t sell. This album is coming out at a perfect time; Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Please go pick up a copy of “Another Round” in stores February 9th, 2010!!!!!!
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Jaheim | “Finding My Way Back”
Jake Jacobs VI
Wow, thanks for this. You seem to be quite the expert in this category. I’ll stop by more often.