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ONE OF HER WORST!

ianphillips@uk.dreamcast.com | BOLTON, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND | 09/22/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"As a huge Diana Ross fan i have always enjoyed her albums and whilst some have been better than others there normally are a handful of tracks that i do like. However this album emerges as her most indistinctive work of the 80's. To be fair there are two great tracks that save this from being given one star- MUSCLES (written by Michael Jackson and a huge seller on both sides of the Atlantic) and I AM ME. SO CLOSE and IN YOUR ARMS are fairly good but the rest of the album is dreamy and ponderous. This was followed by an even worse album ROSS (1983). These are the only two albums of Diana Ross that i barley ever listen to. The soul seems to have drained from this album to a more light rock sound or in the case of FOOL FOR YOUR LOVE very heavy rock to which Ross undoubtedly has the vocal abilities to carry it through but is simply not the Diana Ross we all know and love. On the whole the album is mediocre with the exception of the few tracks mentioned."