Robin Thicke
Something Else
BY Jason Anderson
October 08, 2008 11:10
How can one man be so damn smooth? Given his parentage and growing resemblance to his pops Alan, we know that Robin Thicke cannot give credit to good genes. (That said, the possibility of a world of Robin clones suggested by the godawful cover art boggles the mind.) All we can know for sure is that he will do all he can to get into our collective pants. If the retro-Off the Wall disco strutting of “Magic” fails to seduce, then there’s always the buttery crooning of “You’re My Baby” and “The Sweetest Love.” But best of all is the newest addition to Thicke’s hustla’ playbook: the horny and horn-laden funk of “Shadow of Doubt” and “Hard On My Love.” While nothing here can touch his ’06 masterstrokes “Lost Without U” or “Shooter” (with pal Lil Wayne, whose pensive Carter III post-Katrina lament “Tie My Hands” is included here), Something Else is an essential accoutrement for today’s righteous boudoir.
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