3LW
Now That's What I Call Music! 7
Albumkritik
Plattenfirma: Virgin Records
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Albumkritik
These Now compilations sell through the roof, and why shouldn't they? They minister to the pop flock the way Top Forty radio used to, combining big hits from all over the music spectrum into one blowout fiesta. And since you can't buy singles anymore, Now is a cheapskate's chance to get skintight with flavor-of-the-weak hitmakers worth knowing one song at a time. If you only listen to your local rock station, you've missed out on 3LW and Mystikal; if you're into the hip-hop station, you haven't had the pleasure of Mandy Moore or American Hi-Fi. But thanks to Now, we all get a late pass. The latest volume compiles nineteen hits for a state-of-the-mall sampler of the pop machine circa 2001 - the good, the bad and the Britney.
Now 7 rounds up some of the year's choicest singles so far: Destiny's Child speak out boldly against Christianity-compromising and Internet-dissing in "Survivor," Mystikal puts in a good word for ass in "Danger (Been So Long)," the Britster shows us what she's working with in "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" and Nelly does it all for the mon-nay in "Ride Wit Me." Aerosmith score with "Jaded," one of the saddest and prettiest rock ballads to grace the radio in years, while Eve bonds with Gwen Stefani for the mildly obscene "Let Me Blow Ya Mind." Of course, the fun wouldn't be complete without filler, so there's buttock-clenchingly loathsome crapola from S Club 7 and Lifehouse. But what the hell - Now 7 even lets you catch up with goodies that slipped past you on the radio, like 3LW's fabulous R&B melodrama "Playas Gon' Play," which in truth wasn't much of a hit - it fizzled at Number Eighty-one in Billboard - but belongs here anyway. And what do you know: At a party like this, even Jennifer Lopez sounds OK.
ROB SHEFFIELD
(RS 875 - August 16, 2001)
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