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Highly recommend.


G   September 22, 2002
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Gerald Levert's doing a bit of experimenting on his third solo album, but he's played it safely. He's nabbed the producer of "My Body," his hit with LSG members Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill, and even produced a few songs in his traditional, thick-souled, hooping and hollering vein. But Levert's at his best when exploring more bluesy styles.

G's first three songs on the album attempt to recapture the appeal of last year's "My Body," his ...syncopated hit with LSG (Levert Sweat Gill). The best of the three, "Nothin' To Somethin'," happens to be the album's lukewarm debut.

Fortunately the record gets better as the sappy lyrics and formulaic production fade. Surprisingly, Levert seems more comfortable revisiting older styles, namely bluesy ones showcased on a good portion of the album. "Strings, Strings," "She Done Been" and "Misery" convincingly capture relationship heartache. Levert displays a pleasurable falsetto on "Baby U Are," which at times reminds of the Dramatics's "In The Rain," and warrants attention for the jazz-overtoned spoken word offering "Somebody's Baby."

Since the bluesy and retro numbers aren't destined for radio, Levert's included a few traditional types. "These" happen to be the record's straightforward R&B ballad, and "Heart Don't" is the catchy-chorused mid-tempo cut.


"G" is for "Good lawd!!!"   August 20, 2002
  1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I heard that this album was supposed to come out in 1999, with its lead-off single, "Nothin to Somethin". But that song received a lukewarm response (even by me, although it grew on me a lot by now), so Gerald went back to the studio and came back in Spring 2000 with G, the follow-up to his dark-but-still-good Love and Consequences.

I still play this album to this day, even more than his latest album, Gerald's World (that too, is still a very good album). But I just think that he had a lot of good days on this album (he's even cheesin' on the album cover for once). Check out "Application (Lookin' For a New Love)", a brilliant metaphor on treating a relationship like a search for an employee (for the women who were offended when Gerald, a father, said that he didn't want a woman with no kids, lighten up, it's just a song).The down-home blues of "Misery" finds Gerald waving a finger at a man who didn't treat his girl right, while "Strings, Strings" and "Don't Take it Away" find G, as usual, trying to get his lover back. And don't forget the song, "Mr. Too Damn Good", which had even men on the block singing the lyrics. Hey, by the way, does anybody know what in the world "It Hurts Too Much to Stay" is about?? This duet with Kelly Price finds Kelly saying at the end, "Goin' to jail because I killed your girl", at least, so I thought.

I love every song on here, even though his aching falsetto on "Baby U Are" kinda rubbed me the wrong way; sorry, Gerald, stick to tenor vocals. But overall, G stands for another thing: great.