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A brash and tightly knit female quartet, not a soft drink, with the worst name for an R&B group since MoKenStef or maybe even Po' Broke & Lonely?, Electrik Red danced behind several high-profile acts (Usher, Ciara) prior to recording their debut album. Pointedly titled How to Be a Lady, Vol. 1, they knocked it out within the span of two weeks with sovereign songwriting/production team Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, with Carlos McKinney in place of Stewart on two tracks. While How to Be a Lady could almost pass as a Naomi Allen solo album -- she takes the majority of the leads, occasionally sharing them, with a teasing yet frank huskiness not unlike that of Kelis or the offspring of Millie Jackson -- the presence of her partners is almost always felt, and together they make like an all-conquering crew of maneaters who do precisely what they want without taking themselves too seriously. This is most bluntly exemplified on "W.F.Y." (as in "we f*ck you), a sleek thump-and-glide in which a mate is compared to a stray dog, among other things: "You was like Flash in the sheets/So fast I had to finish when you leave." There's also the riotous "Kill Bill," the best female R&B revenge fantasy since Brooke Valentine's "I Want You Dead.
Condition: NEW. Punched upc.
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Muah 3:56
2 So Good 3:25
3 Devotion 4:34
4 Freaky Freaky 4:17
5 Bed Rest 4:30
6 Friend Lover 3:44
7 P Is for Power 3:49
8 W.F.Y. 3:58
9 9 to 5 3:33
10 On Point 3:08
11 Drink in My Cup 3:34
12 Go Shawty 3:00
13 Kill Bill 3:21
14 So Good Remix 3:29
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