The other night, I got a tweet from Carly to listen to Omarion's new mixtape "The Awakening", Omarion seems to want to revamp his image and start with new music. There has been recent uproar about him doing remakes of the R&B classics "Come & talk to me" by Jodeci and "One in a Million" by Aaliyah. Honestly, the Jodeci I feel he should have left alone because of the changing range of his voice. He went from singing high to low and I hated it. When people do remakes I hope they know people compare them to the original. If I was to put the two tracks side to side Jodeci would reign supreme. The Aaliyah track however, he did not sound too bad on.
'The Awakening" has 19 tracks and some made an impression while others were skipped. Songs that made my list were: Battle feat. Red Cafe, Guilty, Beg feat. M$NEY, Get it on feat. Red Cafe, Cut a Rug, Pleasure and Pain feat. K-Mac, and Wet. Wet is a track from Ollusion album that is always in constant rotation.
Overall, Omarion made a good impression. According to datpiff.com which was doing the promotion of the mixtape, it received a 4 out of 5 stars. Omarion continues to fight for the R&B throne. Listen to the mixtape and make your own list.
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