Album review: Jamie Foxx's 'Intuition'

Jamie Foxx would be justified in continuing his efforts as a singer if for no other reason than as fodder for more videos as charming and lightly humorous as the one for "Just Like Me," the first single from his sophomore album.

The track itself is one of five on the album co-written and produced by Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, the team behind, among their other recent successes, Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)." It's rooted in a nicely syncopated bass-and-drum rhythm track dusted with celestial keyboards and percolating acoustic guitar accents, Foxx and guest rapper T.I. trading lines that detail his worries about the girl who's doing him wrong.

"Intuition" presents a sampler of contemporary R&B styles from producers including Timbaland, Just Blaze, Butter Beats and Calvo Da Gr8, giving the collection a disjointed air. Foxx's identity as a musician isn't any clearer than it was on his double platinum debut album, "Unpredictable."

Foxx briefly resurrects his ability to channel Ray Charles in "I Don't Need It," while "Digital Girl," another from The-Dream and Tricky, takes him into the world of dreamy dance pop and gets an assist from Kanye West. "Blame It" (featuring T-Pain) goes more deeply into techno with heavily processed and staccato vocal edits over a metal-shop clanking beat track from producer Christopher "Deep" Henderson.

You'd have a hard time telling who's at the center of most of these state-of-the-art but undistinctive concoctions. Unless, of course, Foxx turns them into videos.

--Randy Lewis

Jamie Foxx
"Intuition"
(J Records)
** Two stars

Comments

[Erica]

I LOVE IT!!!!, i LOVE of course "She got her own", "Weekend lover", and "Slow" go get ....!!!!!!!!!

[Brittany]

I've been a fan of Jamie for quite some time now but, i'm a slow/love song fan more than I am club. So I slightly enjoyed "Unpredictable" more than his recent album. Don't get me wrong I love this album and intend on buying some copies for my friends. Out of all the tracks my Favs were "She got her own", "Overdose", "I don't need it", "Digital Girl" and "number one".

[Elena]

I think this is a great sophmore album... i didnt really like the first 5 tracks.. i dont think he needed to use that voice changer like T-Pain. I did notice that the songs that i really like are the ones that Jamie wrote himself... not as great as Unpredictable.. but still really good..

[Volt]

I agree with the previous comments and find this album a bit worse than those that came out earlier. But in general, rather good and qualitative, by the way, this alsum is accessible in good quality at http://rapidqueen.com/?q=jamie+foxx+intuition

[DT]

i think it was let down, even more so because unpredictable was sooo gud, i couldnt tell you a song off thwe top off my head that i do like from the new one although there are a couple, nothing on it at all is spectacular

[Joker]

i really like jamies new album more than unpredictable because i like elecro R&B pop mixed together unpredictale was a good album but this one is better i like the songs "Blame It" with t pain and "Just Like Me" with T.I it is a freat album get it off itunes or buy a copy.

[Janelle]

I really love Intuition. Unpredictable is great and I loved every track, but Jamie took the initiative to update with Intuition, hence the voice changer, etc. I also love all the songs on Intuition, but the ones that stick out are "Overdose," "Slow," "Weekend Lover," and "Love Brings Change." I definitely recommend buying the whole CD because you will fall in love with every song even if you don't completely like them at first.