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| The urban pop blockbuster debut from a sizzling singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist. Includes the Top-Ten hit Birthday Sex, plus My Ride, Imma Star..., Runway, etc. |
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| 1 That Body |
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| 2 Birthday Sex |
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| 3 Break Up to Make Up |
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| 4 Runway |
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| 5 Raindrops |
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| 6 Starting All Over |
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| 7 Imma Star (Everywhere We Are) |
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| 8 Jumpin |
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| 9 Hatin' on Me |
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| 10 My Sunshine |
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| 11 My Ride |
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| 12 Buh Bye |
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| 13 Birthday Sex [Up-Tempo][*] |
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Album Review
There's more to Jeremih's debut album than "Birthday Sex," a bedroom ballad that became a major summertime crossover hit a la J. Holiday's "Bed." Outside of the startlingly direct delivery of its title and the stuttering effect that comes into play whenever Jeremih sings lines like "I know you want to cry-y-y out" and "Girl you know I-I-I" -- a twist on the-Dream's oft-deployed stammer -- "Birthday Sex" is a basic but ingratiating slow jam built over Mick Schultz's gently rocking lullaby beat, rather "Bed"-like. Schultz, who met the singer in college, produces the whole album. Despite being a mere upstart who takes many cues from the hottest pop-savvy R&B producers running, including Tricky Stewart, Carlos McKinney, Danja, and Timbaland, he supplies his partner with a set of backdrops that covers all the bases, from low-slung Southern trunk rattlers to glossy Euro-flavored pop. Jeremih's charmingly sly voice, somewhere between One Twelve's Slim and a young Raphael Saadiq, is hard to not like, especially when he tempers his cockiness with a little sensitivity -- best heard in "Break Up To Make Up," the song that also bears the album's sharpest hooks. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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• Biography
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