Search - Day26 :: Forever in a Day

A Fast Paced Day

Styleon R. Jones | Irving, TX USA | 04/14/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This year I came out of the closet and told my friends that I was a Day 26 fan. I found out they were too!! The debut album is still in the cd changer so I was very eager to purchase new music from this VERY talented group of guys. I have listened to a few tracks via MTV's leak but I wanted to save the rest for the release date. I'm only on my third listen and the album is good but I would prefer a few more ballads. I guess Que got what he wanted with an up-tempo album but there is nothing like listening to Day 26 harmonize and wreck a slow song.



Best Song: Perfectly Blind is my favorite on the album. Que and Dawn vocally produced a sultry song.



Worst Song: Need That is absolutely terrible. Thank God it is only 2:30 long.



The Good (9/10)

Imma Put it on Her- Brian's ad-libs are amazing



Stadium Music- Best way to describe it is colossal. I like it!



So Good- B. Cox never disappoints. He is R&B through and through. The guys work well with him.



Girlfriend- Tank helped the guys deliver a great song.



Babymaker- Glad I'm on birth control because this is definitely a baby maker.



The Bad

Shawty Wats Up- The song is past the whole vocoder phase. I'm too tired to even listen. Besides, with voices like that, why distort them?



The other songs on the album are non skippers but don't stand out as much as the good, the bad, the best, or the worst.



With the vocal talent that Day has, I wish them all the best. This was a good sophomore effort and I look forward to what else they have in store. While this album is not as great as the first, I feel that it will catapult them into another realm and an audience that didn't take them serious at first.

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Not bad...

T. Taylor | Brooklyn, NY | 04/16/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I became a HUGE Day 26 fan because of their first album. Honestly..I've never bought a CD where I loved EVERY single track. But..that's exactly how I felt about that 1st album. I still listen to it!!!



As for their sophomore album, I'm sorry to say, only a few tracks caught my attention. Not sure what happened here, but I still give it an "A" for effort.



Out of the 15 tracks, only the ones below caught my attention. Whether it was in a good/bad way.





My absolute FAVORITE track...



Track 11 - Then There's You(Love it!!!!)





Wouldn't mind hearing on the radio...

Track 2 - Imma put it on her

Track 8 -So Good

Track 9 - Girlfriend

Track 14 - Your heels





WHY THE HELL is this on the album...

Track 3 - Shawty Wats Up

Track 12 - Need That"

From Good to a Little Better.

Eddie Yarbrough | Orlando, FL | 04/15/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"There has been a lack of great R&B in the universe since the demise of "Neo-Soul" music. Let's face it, we wish Erykah Badu, John Legend, Music Soulchild, India.Irie, and Jill Scott were still making it hard for people to make sub-par, over produced, pop (bubble gum) R&B albums. Few have tried to find the soul in R&B music recently (Lyfe Jennings, J. Holiday, Robin Thicke) but have not found the popularity or radio and video circulation of the Ushers and Justin Timberlakes of the world.

Enter Day 26. We know the story of 5 young musical upstarts who were chosen by music mogul/svengali P. Diddy to be the next big stars on his label Bad Boy Entertainment via the uber popular, mind numbing MTV show Making the Band 4. (The season that also gave birth to ever struggling artist Donnie Klang.)The debut album entered the charts at #1 and was touted by some as "better than we thought it would be".

With the group's second offering, Forever In a Day, the guys sound more mature with some of the best harmonies heard from a "boy band" (Let's face it, they're a boy band!) since Boys II Men. Tracks like the lead single "Imma Put It On Her" and "Stadium Music" showcase the guys vocals eloquently. "Bipolar" is a standout track with both a peculiar production by C-Major accented by odd vocal choices that somehow work.

The down side to Forever In a Day is it's failure to move past the group's debut album. Vocally the album features a little growth, but not so much you notice on the first listen. We know these guys have insane vocal ability but somehow there's the sneaking suspicion that there's more. The content of the album, though, is simple and yet more of the bump 'n grind R&B.

If anyone has watched this season of MTB 4 you're familiar with the struggle within the group over the direction of this album. What has resulted with the final product of Forever In a Day confirms that one embattled member of group may have been right about Day 26 taking more risks.

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