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Track List
01) Finally Made Me Happy
02) Shoo Be Doo
03) What I Gotta Do
04) Okay
05) Glad You're Here
06) Ghetto Love
07) One For Me
08) Strange Behavior
09) Slowly
10) Get Out
11) Treat Me Like Your Money
12) Everybody
13) AEIOU
01) Finally Made Me Happy
02) Shoo Be Doo
03) What I Gotta Do
04) Okay
05) Glad You're Here
06) Ghetto Love
07) One For Me
08) Strange Behavior
09) Slowly
10) Get Out
11) Treat Me Like Your Money
12) Everybody
13) AEIOU
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First Released
2007
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Good Natured
Urban/R&B
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In March, Gray released her fourth studio album (sixth overall), entitled Big. Two singles, "Finally Made Me Happy" and "Shoo Be Doo", have been released from the album. "What I Gotta Do", another track from the album, is featured on the Shrek the Third soundtrack. It is considered Gray's comeback album, after a four-year hiatus since her last studio album. The album was critically acclaimed and seen by some as her best work to date. It featured collaborations with Natalie Cole, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, and will.i.am, who co-executive produced the album with Gray. The album was moderately successful in the U.S., where it debuted and peaked at #39 on the Billboard 200, becoming Gray's highest-charting album since The Id. Big reached #62 on the albums chart in the UK, her lowest-charting UK album, but it did achieve some success in several other countries including Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Finland, reaching the top forty of their album charts.
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Don’t mess with Macy Gray. Four years away from the recording scene have not mellowed her one iota, and on her comeback album she’s got some scores to settle. Her gripes, as ever, are with a multitude of feckless men. Take opening track ‘'Finally Made Me Happy'’, in which Gray thanks her hopeless ex-husband for walking out as the only good thing he ever did.
There’s a cutting sense of humour at work. ‘'Strange Behavior'’ sets the bleak story of a wife who kills her husband before he kills her first against a dreamy Motown beat. And ‘'Treat Me Like Your Money'’ satirises the guys who treat their girlfriends like possessions (‘I love you like money cuz I love you a lot’). The voice is still extraordinary, modulating between a ferocious feline rasp and an alien newly arrived on Planet Earth. It’s at its most cartoonishly extreme on ‘'Ghetto Love'’, one of the best tracks on the album, about a gangsta’s girl you definitely shouldn’t mess with.
The production values are grandiose, creating a voluminous, layered sound with no respect for genre. Big mashes up 1970s soul, with funk and rap, throwing in 1950s swirls and samples of Dead Or Alive and Run DMC for good measure. And Gray is ably abetted by some A-list collaborators: Natalie Cole, rapper Nas, Fergie and will.i.am, who also produces. It may not always come off (the more conventional tracks are the least successful), but a sense of liberation shines throughout. Feisty, funky and as scarily full-on, it looks like Macy is back in a big way.
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In March, Gray released her fourth studio album (sixth overall), entitled Big. Two singles, "Finally Made Me Happy" and "Shoo Be Doo", have been released from the album. "What I Gotta Do", another track from the album, is featured on the Shrek the Third soundtrack. It is considered Gray's comeback album, after a four-year hiatus since her last studio album. The album was critically acclaimed and seen by some as her best work to date. It featured collaborations with Natalie Cole, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, and will.i.am, who co-executive produced the album with Gray. The album was moderately successful in the U.S., where it debuted and peaked at #39 on the Billboard 200, becoming Gray's highest-charting album since The Id. Big reached #62 on the albums chart in the UK, her lowest-charting UK album, but it did achieve some success in several other countries including Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Finland, reaching the top forty of their album charts.
User Album Review
Don’t mess with Macy Gray. Four years away from the recording scene have not mellowed her one iota, and on her comeback album she’s got some scores to settle. Her gripes, as ever, are with a multitude of feckless men. Take opening track ‘'Finally Made Me Happy'’, in which Gray thanks her hopeless ex-husband for walking out as the only good thing he ever did.
There’s a cutting sense of humour at work. ‘'Strange Behavior'’ sets the bleak story of a wife who kills her husband before he kills her first against a dreamy Motown beat. And ‘'Treat Me Like Your Money'’ satirises the guys who treat their girlfriends like possessions (‘I love you like money cuz I love you a lot’). The voice is still extraordinary, modulating between a ferocious feline rasp and an alien newly arrived on Planet Earth. It’s at its most cartoonishly extreme on ‘'Ghetto Love'’, one of the best tracks on the album, about a gangsta’s girl you definitely shouldn’t mess with.
The production values are grandiose, creating a voluminous, layered sound with no respect for genre. Big mashes up 1970s soul, with funk and rap, throwing in 1950s swirls and samples of Dead Or Alive and Run DMC for good measure. And Gray is ably abetted by some A-list collaborators: Natalie Cole, rapper Nas, Fergie and will.i.am, who also produces. It may not always come off (the more conventional tracks are the least successful), but a sense of liberation shines throughout. Feisty, funky and as scarily full-on, it looks like Macy is back in a big way.
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