Puffy's Bad Boy protege debuts with full-length 'Loon,' not half bad

Cop it or drop it

Ratings
4 stars = cop it
3 stars = play it
2 stars = ok it
1 star = drop it

"Loon"
Loon
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Bad Boy After being featured on many songs over the last couple of years, New York native Loon has finally come out with his self-titled debut album.

As a member of the P. Diddy, camp the album was sure to have at least one song with P. Diddy in it. "Can't talk to her" was not one of my favorites, and the album could have done without it. An array of head-bobbing beats on the album keep listeners interested in what comes next. The musical expertise of popular artists such as Missy Elliot, Kelis and Trina are featured on "Loon."

Although Loon is a rap artist his album has an R&B feel. "How you want that," a hit single off of the album featuring Kelis, is a great song to get up and groove to. It keeps you moving without being ready to change to the track before the song is over.

Loon brings us back a couple of years with "Things you do," featuring Aaron Hall; not too bad for a 19-track debut album.
-- Andria Banks

 

"Everything to Everyone"
Barenaked Ladies
*
Reprise The Barenaked Ladies have come out with its third and hopefully last album of its career. "Everything to Everyone" proves the band's inability to produce a song worthy of listening to the whole way through.

The lyrics make absolutely no sense, and the music that accompanies the lyrics isn't much better either.

The lead singer's cartoon animated voice doesn't compliment the more serious songs on the album. The songs with catchy beats and somewhat descent melodies are about shopping and chimpanzees.

This Canadian-pop alternative band has been around making albums since the late '80s and at a very slow pace. You would think that with all of the time in between albums they would be able to come up with at least one more hit like the one that made them popular in the first place.

If you were previously a Barenaked Ladies fan, brace yourself for disappointment, and if you like the album's current single, "Another Postcard" that has gotten some radio play, that doesn't mean that the rest of the album is going to have the same success.
-- Emily Campoy