Sean Kingston

Thank goodness there are still artists, in the rap field, who don't feel it necessary to fill their CD's with argumentative and swear word filled tripe. This was a wonderful debut album for a very young (17, I believe) artist, and I'm pleased to enjoy his hits: Take You There, I Can Feel It, and Beautiful Girls, as well as all the other non-filler hits.

Congratulations, Mr. Kingston! You are a success!!!

hi.
i got this album when it got released, and i havent stoped listening to it since.
it really sounds like he fakes his accent, espicially on the 2nd track when he raps he has no accent. but who cares?! he's accent is good, sounds really good.
i really like "i can feel it" "take you there" "kingston" "changes" and well...all this album!
so if you liked "Beautiful Girls" and looking for more of the same style songs, get this album!

I do not like rap that well that I would buy a whole CD but I wanted to take a chance with this Cd and it was well worth it. All the songs are great even the intro is great. There is only 1 complaint I have the Cd says it has There's Nothin (featuring The DEY and Juelz Santana) (new album version) but it is with paula deanda but you can buy the other song on iTunes. I wouldn't buy the CD just because they don't have the song. Buy it is well worth it.

I first heard Sean Kingston because of song "Beautiful Girl" but I love this CD - especially the Phil Collins remix song.

I loved every song on this album. I will keep buying CDs from Sean Kingston!!!

So, I'm sure young Sean did not write this for a grandma but I really do like this CD. I like rap cd's that have a story to tell like this one, Eminen and Kanye West's first CD. Sean Kingston's CD has no cursing, and no disrespect for women.

I won't waste time describing what this sounds like, because I'm going to take it for granted that you've heard this "Beautiful Girls" atrocity already. You turn on the radio and it's THERE - the lazy, uninspired "Stand By Me" riff (he actually heard it one day and thought it would be good to sample - God, how cynical is THAT?), not to mention his stupid, faux-Jamaican accent, with a voice that sounds like a frog holding its nose. You turn on any music channel and he's THERE, with a fat, grinning face only a mother could regret squeezing out. So, yes, we all know of this song.

And what a piece of garbage it really is. For one, the actual lyrics make NO sense. Call me old-fashioned, but I expect that when someone sings a song, whether they wrote it or not, you can't just punch holes in it the minute you hear it. That's why I wouldn't expect, say, Prince, to start singing about his time in World War II, or for Michael Jackson to sing songs about having sex with someone he wouldn't go to prison for. That's just common sense, right?

So you'll forgive me for laughing at Sean Kingston then. One of the lines contains this classic: "It was back in '99, watching movies all the time, oh when I went away for doing my first crime." Uh-huh. Did I mention Sean is actually 17 years old? So, um, he was put in jail when he was nine, was he? That can't be true. Or is it just that "crime" rhymes easily with "nine" and so it was too tempting to use? Ding - right answer.

And then there's the chorus, which, for the baffling success of this song, seems to have won the hearts of a million stupid girls the world over. "You'll have me suicidal when you say its over." Awww - how sweet. Although isn't that train of thought along the same lines as "if you leave me I'm going to slit my wrists." Sniff - how romantic - in a creepy, rabid, desperate sort of way.

You know what, though? I'm not too bothered about Sean Kingston. True, he's a below-average talent with a rubbish song and a worse pretend accent, but I think we can all agree that we're not really going to be dealing with him after this one hit single. He's such an obvious one-trick pony he might has well have a nosebag over his face. Which he probably wouldn't mind much...

I think not, words cannot describe the absolute contempt that I hold this song. Why on earth is it rammed down our throats almost every hour on daytime radio. Avoid at all costs.

This cd is three songs - the album/radio version, the instrumental version and the cappella version. All three are different enough to keep it incredible yet similar enough to make you feel at home with Sean.