Robin Thicke – Sex Therapy: The Experience (Album Review)
Robin Thicke – Sex Therapy: The Experience
(Release Date: December 15, 2009)
Nu America, Star Trak, Interscope
Robin Thicke’s Sex Therapy the Experience is quite the experience. Musically it is the tale of two albums fighting each other to figure out where they fit in and to me they don’t fit. I’ve always been a fan of traditional R&B music I’m not even talking about going way back to Smokey Robinson I’m just talking about singing about love. Today’s R&B is so “love” deficient right now you would think it was allergic to it. Robin Thicke brought some of that with his previous efforts and honestly I loved it pardon the pun. Today it’s almost impossible to find a album that doesn’t feature autotune or some dufus singing about how hard he is on the block hustling. What happened to music I’ll never know I do know I don’t like it and not only will I not support it but I hope it falls flat on its face.
Now what on earth does that have to do with Robin Thicke you ask, well for parts of this album he stepped out of his lane and tried his hand at what everybody else is doing. In a word I HATED the experiment. Robin is one of those artists that I appreciate him for trying not to be like everybody else, so for him to go this route 3 albums in the game was a head scratcher. Unlike most of the bums making music right now Robin didn’t get carried away, there is still a lot of really good music on here. It was just so jarring to hear him curse and do songs with Jay Z, Game, Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj then switch back to ballads… shrugs it is what it is. I can’t tell him as a artist what to do and not do I just know what I like and those brief indiscretions with crappy music aside this album is ok not great just ok. I probably would have respected it more had Mr Thicke gone in musically like Kanye West on the 808 album committed to it instead of just sticking his big toe in.
On a side note to singers please stop F#@K’n C#rsing its annoying as hell, and who ever that guy is that works with the Dream that keeps making those Prince sounding songs please stop dude.
$$1/2 out of $$$$$
