Jennifer Lopez "Rebirth" Album

	Title: Rebirth Format: Album Label: Sony Released: 2005-03-01
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Tracklisting & Lyrics

1. Get Right lyrics »
2. Step Into My World lyrics »
3. Hold You Down lyrics »
4. Whatever You Wanna Do lyrics »
5. Cherry Pie lyrics »
6. I Got You lyrics »
7. Still Around lyrics »
8. Ride or Die lyrics »
9. I Love lyrics »
10. He'll Be Back lyrics »
11. (Can't Believe) This Is Me lyrics »
12. Bonus Track: Get Right featuring Fabolous lyrics »

Reviews

Love her or loathe her, uber-diva Jennifer Lopez knows how to deliver on record. She understands how to make the most of her limited vocal range, choosing to surround herself with able producers Rodney Jerkins, Timbaland, Big Boi and Cory Rooney, who oversaw Lopez's first album, On the 6. The mix makes Rebirth far more enjoyable than it should be, coasting on midnight-groove ballads and polished dance tracks. Lopez's fourth studio album offers little insight into her much-gossiped-about persona, but it's an undeniably fun ride anyway. A blaring James Brown horn riff drills first single "Get Right" into your head almost immediately, and soon enough, you'll find yourself bopping to the beat. The Middle-Eastern flavor of "Step Into My World" is undeniably seductive, and it's actually enhanced by Lopez's wisp of a voice. "Whatever You Wanna Do" and "Cherry Pie" are solid dance tracks, the kind of grooves Janet Jackson made before she became a Superbowl afterthought. Elsewhere, the album is peppered with R&B ballads, much like Lopez's 2002 opus, This Is Me ... Then. Rebirth is hardly a groundbreaking affair, but it continues to showcase Lopez's skillful trend of producing solid, catchy, R&B-laced records. Nothing here ever sounds forced or canned, and in the world of MTV and radio edits, maybe that does make Lopez a bit of a revolutionary after all. ~Joey Guerra, Amazon.com

The universal mauling of 2003's dire rom-com "Gigli" must have come as something of a shock to Jennifer Lopez. It was the first clear sign that J. Lo the brand wasn't bullet proof. And while everyone's entitled to a stinker now and then, for Lopez there was more than pride riding on her continued success. Figurehead for the ultimate multi-media empire - comprising film, music, perfumes and lingerie - she can't afford to be anything other than A-list.
Time to reassess then, be more discerning and, in musical terms, not rely so heavily on a handful of good singles to add to her sales of 35 million disappointing albums. For her fourth long player she's finally turned the autopilot off and decided to take her pop career seriously. The album's called "Rebirth" for a reason.
It's not a perfect album, but she's made worse - let's not forget that 2001's J. Lo needed the combined talents of Ja Rule and Ashanti to come in and salvage its lacklustre tracks just to fulfil its three single quota. Certainly, immediate, unshakable tunes like that of first single, the phenomenal hip-hop hip-shaker "Get Right", are thin on the ground; it's far and away the best thing here. But there's a higher than average count of worthy runners-up.
Keeping the twee ballads to a minimum, and proving that she means business, Lopez has amassed an impressive team to give her something more interesting to murmur breathlessly to. Timbaland ushers in his unmistakable skittering beat for the melancholic "He'll Be Back". Outkast's Big Boi puts a spring in the step of the blissfully loved-up "Still Around" and even Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins bucks his recent trend for second rate R&B, digging deep for the dreamy Arabian strut of "Step Into My World" and "I Got U"'s sunny block party sway.
Still, anyone thinking that she's turned over a completely new leaf can think again. Focused, slick and likable as "Rebirth" undeniably is in places, the fact that the Limited Edition comes with a sample of Ms Lopez's new "Miami Glow" fragrance, confirms, that it's still just another shameless exercise in brand extension. ~Dan Gennoe, yahoo.com