Rolling Stone Reviews The-Dream's Love vs. Money

Rolling Stone magazine reviewed The-Dream's new album "Love vs. Money". The album will release TOMORROW, March 10.

But with his second CD, the man born Terius Nash leaps into another league.
These 14 songs draw on pro forma R&B subject matter: sex, sex in VIP rooms,
breakup sex, makeup sex. But the combination of classicist songcraft, wild sound
collage and a muse that partakes equally of the sensual and the silly makes Love
vs. Money far more than just an accomplished genre piece. The most obvious model
is R. Kelly, whom Dream name–checks in the swirling slow-jam "Kelly's 12 Play,"
a tale of a musically enhanced sexcapade. "Sweat It Out" is a hilarious conceit
about sex and grooming that begins with Dream cautioning, "Girl, call up Tisha,
your beautician/'Cause your hair is gon' need fixin'."

Tricky's beats
call to mind both Timbaland and Trent Reznor, filled with blasts of dissonance,
jazzlike chord changes, and background shouts and hisses that ricochet across
the stereo spectrum, and in the six–and–a–half–minute mini–epic "Fancy," a
symphonic multitracked chorale. The end result is genuinely odd: at once
avant-garde dance music and radio-friendly pop, sex farce that is genuinely
sexy. There isn't a weak song on Money; most of them are unforgettable. "Cupid
ain't got shit on me," Dream sings. In 2009, Cupid's not alone.
4 1/2 Stars

Written by Jody Rosen for RS

Music Addiction's favorite tracks are Walkin' On The Moon and Rockin' That Thang. To preview the album on imeem.

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