My Everything

Rhythm of Love Anita Baker is a legendary vocal embellisher; she can hold the end of a line and bend that final syllable through several notes in her trademark smokey alto, thus giving the lyric an extra emotional twist. Audiences love this sort of vocal ornamentation, and a singer must resist ...	Rapture Soul has been through a lot of changes of late, and if there seems to be an oversupply of young divas-in-waiting today, you can probably thank Anita Baker for it. Baker was one of the few singers that bridged the old school to the new, and this 1986 album was--and is--a true soul...	Giving You the Best That I Got	Compositions	The Songstress Baker's deservedly obscure 1983 debut was reissued in 1991, long after her 1986 Rapture CD had garnered a Grammy and established her as a sophisticated, sensuous balladeer. Baker's smoky alto is recognizable enough, but it lacks the emotional immediacy and dramatic phrasing of he...
The Best of Anita Baker	Christmas Fantasy Last fall, eight-time Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker returned to the pop music scene after a ten-year hiatus with a gorgeous new album released on Blue Note Records entitled My Everything. After a triumphant year, Baker is back with a brand new holiday album: Christmas Fantasy...	A Night of Rapture - Live	Toni Braxton The perfect matchup of singer, song, and producer is a wondrous thing, and no more so in the producer-driven realm of black pop. Such a wonderful moment was the debut from Toni Braxton who, in Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, had an uber lord who tapped into the dark yet radio-friendly ...	The Best of Sade With her exotic beauty and steamy voice, Sade couldn't help but be a star. Taking the more sensuous elements of island beats, smooth jazz, and R&B, Sade scored major hits with the continental feel of "Smooth Operator" and the sultry stylization of "Your Love Is King." Her voice w...

A MOST WELCOMED RETURN FOR THIS SOUL LEGEND, AND HOPEFULLY WE WON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS BEFORE WE GET THE NEXT ONE
Nothing different, just Pure/Simple Anita Baker! No Guest Rappers (Thank God). Smooth and breezy from start to finish! It seems like Anita Baker & Blue Note work well together (The company DID put some serious Marketing & Promotion behind this project). Key Cuts: The Title Track, "Like You Used To" (A Duet With Babyface), "How Could You", and the cute: "Men In My Life". A Straight Jazz album would be reallllll nice....She's at the right label.

Boring!!! Nothing groundbreaking here.
I was looking forward to this and was disappointed to hear a new album that sounds like more of her old stuff. :-(

Don't burn your brigdes behind you!!
Babyface sued singer Anita Baker for allegedly failing to pay him for a song he produced for her. He filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against fellow R&B artist Anita Baker alleging she owes him at least $250,000. Babyface co-wrote and produced the incredible song "Like You Used to Do,". It's kinda hard to beleive this, but it seems Anita decided to con her producer even if the album went gold with 500,000 sold copies. I purchased this CD because I had heard about this duet with Babyface and "Like You Used to Do" is the best track on the album.

Lei e' bravissima,ma l'album e' irritante e quasi insolente...
Abbiamo tutti aspettato 10 anni per il nuovo CD di Anita ! Lei e' splendida,ha una voce staordinaria e molto evocativa.Peccato che 'My Everything' non sia all'altezza dei suoi dischi precedenti. Tutto e' molto scontato in questo CD,tra l'altro cortissimo,soli 43 minuti! Come prevedibile,si e' trattato piu' che altro di un puro 'esercizio'...commerciale,un accordo furbissimo tra la Blue Note e la vocalista americana...per accontentare la grande massa di fans adoranti... Niente di speciale,di stupefacente,o semplicemente degno di essere ricordato.Anzi,anche dopo ripetuti ascolti,si rimane un po' perplessi,perche' non si ricorda un brano invece di un altro... La produzione e' piuttosto mediocre,solo le Perri Sisters(come background vocals) danno un grande contributo all'ascolto. Un errore non secondario e' che la Baker,che e' una grandissima interprete,ha voluto,preteso ed ottenuto di co-scivere i brani !! Peccato !! Molto probabilmente sara'anche stato un grande successo commerciale,ma dal punto di vista artistico,direi che si tratta di un CD molto mediocre.Anche il duet con Babyface 'Like We used To' e' banale,e non capisco come mai sia stato inserito in'My Everything'...Lo stesso brano , con un altro titolo 'Still My Boo',e' stato inciso da Babyface e un'altra vocalista,Mycale, per il CD del cantautore-produttore nero con il titolo 'A Love Sory'...Strano,questo CD non ha mai visto la luce del sole ( in Giappone,soltanto,credo sia stato pubblicato ) , dopo mesi di pubblicita'..Incredibile.. Quanto ai fans di Anita,suggerirei di comprare il CD 'The Best of Anita Baker' invece di 'My Everything'. Se poi si vuole cercare qualcosa di veramente straordinaio,originale,con una produzione perfetta e interpretazioni da capogogiro e fortemente emotivo,allora suggerirei di optare per un CD assolutamente imperdibile(nella medesima categoria di Soul/Jazz) : il nuovo straordinario album di Regina Belle 'Lazy Afternoon'.

Very nice CD !
I love Anita but I am not crazy about her latest one! It's too short and doesn't add anything to her discography. But I like it the same,because I like her voice. It has been long time that I play it ! I have to admit that my favorite album ,at the moment,is the fantastic 'LAZY AFTERNOON' by another great Lady,Regina Belle. Have you tried it ? Do it,you'll love it.....