Most modern-day female pop singers start their careers doing their sexy, stylish dance-oriented material then settle into a career as an adult contemporary crooner. Toni Braxton didn't follow that route. She started the '90s singing elegant, refined quiet storm ballads and ended it singing sleek dance-pop tunes as she slinked around in skimpy ...
Toni Braxton's second album, Secrets, follows through on the promise of her eponymous debut. Like her first album, the majority of Secrets was co-produced by Babyface and his partner L.A. Reid, while the material is divided between songs written by outside songwriters like R. Kelly, Tony Rich, and Diane Warren and originals by Braxton and Babyface ...
Toni Braxton is both an elegant and earthy songstress, nicely balancing those seemingly divergent sentiments on her self-titled debut disc. Braxton's husky, enticing voice sounds hypnotic on "Breathe Again," dismayed on "Another Sad Love Song," and disillusioned on "Love Shoulda Brought You Home." But she's never out of control, indignant, or so ...
Toni Braxton went through a lot in the years separating her star-making Toni Braxton and her 2000 comeback The Heat. Yes, she became a star, but she also went through a painful bankruptcy that delayed her sequel for years. Fortunately, you wouldn't be able to tell that there was so much behind-the-scenes drama from The Heat -- it's a confident, ...
If there's any problem with More Than a Woman, Toni Braxton's fourth album, it's that it's so consistent, so much a continuation of its predecessor, The Heat, that it may be hard to pinpoint distinctive characteristics. Unlike that album, it lacks a single as undeniable as "He Wasn't Man Enough," yet much of this album is in a similar sexy spirit. ...
A collection of traditional and original holiday songs makes up this release from BMG/Jive Records. Contemporary hitmakers TLC, 'N Sync, Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, and others perform their own takes on Christmas cheer. While the majority of the artists are bright pop stars or soulful urban vocalists, the Christian ...
Totally Hits 3 doesn't have quite the variety of its predecessors, since it completely excises the hard rock/heavy metal wing of previous installments (which, granted, had already dwindled on the second volume). What's left is a selection of dance-pop, urban R&B, adult alternative rock, and a touch of contemporary country -- and, actually, the ...
Un-Break My Heart: The Remix Collection is a nice change of pace from the typical patched-together cash-in compilation of remixes. Hex Hector is brought in to mix ten of the best-known club mixes done for Toni Braxton, and he does so in a way that allows enough room for the bulk of each track to play, rather than showing off quick-wristed skills ...
The Essential Toni Braxton amounts to an expanded update of 2003's Ultimate Toni Braxton, nearly doubling the content and digging deeper into the discography of one of the biggest R&B artists of the '90s. With the exception of favoring the R. Kelly remix of "How Many Ways" over the original, this set retains Ultimate's core 15 tracks while wisely ...
Toni Braxton's second album, Secrets, follows through on the promise of her eponymous debut. Like her first album, the majority of Secrets was co-produced by Babyface and his partner L.A. Reid, while the material is divided between songs written by outside songwriters like R. Kelly, Tony Rich, and Diane Warren and originals by Braxton and Babyface ...
BMG Heritage released Toni Braxton's Platinum & Gold Collection in 2004, a good time for a sweeping roundup of the singer's bounty of hits from the mid-'90s. Her once chart-topping career had gone from red-hot to a bare simmer by this point. Her last substantial hit, "He Wasn't Man Enough for Me" (from her lukewarm album The Heat), had come in ...
It's hard to pull off a tribute album to a recently deceased celebrity with grace and style, but Diana's Tribute works extraordinary well. None of the songs on the two discs are explicitly about Diana, but the generally wistful, melancholy tone captures the feeling of mass mourning and regret. And, on the most basic level, it offers a collection ...
A budget-priced compilation, Breathe Again: Toni Braxton at Her Best contains ten songs. Though Braxton had nearly 20 charting singles through 2002's More Than a Woman, nearly half of the songs on this disc are album cuts. So, instead of "Another Sad Love Song" or "He Wasn't Man Enough," you get "Candlelight" and "Always." "Un-Break My Heart," ...
A La Face Family Christmas is a collection of soulful renditions of holiday songs by famous R&B artists. Big names like Usher and TLC make their presence known on a few songs, but the album is surprisingly average. Toni Braxton's jazzy rendition of Mel Tormé's "Christmas Song" is a highlight, as well as Outkast's quirky "Player's Ball." But other ...
Ultimate Divas captures every aspect of pop music's queens, reaching back to Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow" and Lena Horne's "Stormy Weather," and flashing forward into the present with songs by Annie Lennox and Tina Turner. In between one finds great performances like Billie Holiday's "My Man," Ella Fitzgerald's "Someone to Watch over Me," and ...
Ultimate Dance Party 1998 is an entertaining, continuous-mix party album that features such hits and club staples as Mark Morrison's "Return of the Mack (C&J Edit)," and Real McCoy's "One More Time," Crystal Waters' "100% Pure Love," Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart (Uptempo Mix)," Gina G's "Ooh Aah Just a Little Bit," La Bouche's "Sweet Dreams ...
Included on this collection of Grammy hopefuls are "Give Me One Reason" (Tracy Chapman), "Change the World" (Eric Clapton), "Ironic" (Alanis Morissette), "1979" (Smashing Pumpkins), "Stupid Girl" (Garbage), "Reach" (Gloria Estefan), "Spiderwebs" (No Doubt) and music from Celine Dion, Jewel, LeAnn Rimes, the Tony Rich Project, Toni Braxton and ...
Released in 2006, The Collection bundles 1996's Secrets, 2000's The Heat, and 2002's More Than a Woman -- Toni Braxton's second through fourth albums. Unlike some three-in-one packs that skimp on the liner notes and artwork, this one contains the three discs as they were originally released, and they're in individual cases, so the flimsy paper ...
Provided you can find it -- it's an import, specifically from South America via BMG -- Artist Collection is an alternative to the more widely available Ultimate Toni Braxton. On the surface, it appears to only be a shortened version of Ultimate Toni Braxton, with four less tracks, but a deeper look reveals a very different compilation. This set is ...
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