April 14, 2009

Forever In A Day26


Diddy's "Making the Band" history hasn't been very creditable. His platinum selling female group 'Danity Kane' has also suffered from the Making the Band curse and has disbanded. No one thought it would ever happen because they had exceeded their first album. Shortly after Danity Kane's first album, Diddy began to form an all male group. The process of Danity Kane's sophmore album and the formation of Diddy's third band, was aired on MTV as Making the Band 3. The male group consisted of five members-Willie Taylor, Robert Curry, Brian Andrews, Michael McCluney, and Qwanell "Que" Mosley.

Since Danity Kane disbanded, Making the Band 4 has aired on MTV, showing the process of Day26 creating their sophmore album. Those who have watched, know what I'm talking about when I say "Que" has been wilin. This season's MTB4 has really gotten up close and personal with the guys. Although not everything is recorded, you really begin to see the band members for who they really are. Personally all of Que's outburts, portrayed a negative perspective on the band. Que's behavior was an example of someone letting the money get to their head. I haven't seen such dramatic, egotistical, childish behavior in a new celebrity before. I mean like, just a couple of months ago you were trying to make it like everyone else. People just take shit for granted sometimes and don't realize that as soon as you made that band, your ass could be disbanded...remember you were apart of Diddy's making the band, there's a huge possibility that your career could end just like the last.

Everyone thought that after Que's antics that Diddy would kick him out the group. Well obviously he didn't because Que is on their sophmore album "Forever In A Day" which dropped today, April 14th, 2009. Their debut single "Imma Put It On Her" feat. Yung Joc and Diddy was released about two weeks ago. I'm in the process of reviewing the album now because I just bought off iTunes..so far, so good. I do realize that Que is on a lot more songs than he was on the last album. Diddy said so himself, Que made the band by the skin of his teeth and he mostly made it because he could dance. I will admit though, he doesn't sound too bad, especially being the weakest vocally. Kudos Que. Que also had a lot more say so on this album and you can definitely tell. The rest of the guys believed in making another R&B album because they are indeed an R&B group but Que believed in doing what the mainstream does in order to change the sound and sell records. He wanted to move from R&B to Pop, which is too much of a big transition especially for your sophmore album. But on certain tracks like "Shawty Wats Up" feat. T-Pain, you can here the boys using the Auto-Tune with T-Pain on the vocoder. We'll see how the record sales look during this week. But I won't front on it, go out and buy it, download it, whatever. The album features T-Pain, P.Diddy, Yung Joc, Lloyd, Lil Wayne, and Jermaine Dupri.

1 comment:

  1. I can't say I agree completely with your take on the new album...overall it's a good one, but nothing that I can see myself bumping in the long run. More power to them for sticking it out and staying with their own sound and not falling into Que's antics for a more pop driven album. R&B is where it's at,do like they did, just add a lil pop track here and there and it's cool.

    Anyhoot, enough of me going off...the album is good,not great, but good. Hopefully they'll have some longevity and they're not cursed by Bad Boy...

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