When Sean Kingston first burst on to the music scene with 'Beautiful Girls', I really didn't like him. Part of it was because I was expecting this long-braided hair middle aged guy who really was from Jamaica to be singing the song, and when I turned on MTV one day, I was greeted with the sight of a rotund American guy(of Jamaican descent) who's head was shaved, and was my age.
Then 'Beautiful Girls' kept climbing the charts, and so was played more and more and I got over my initial annoyance at it, and began to see why it was good, and in the end I liked it! And then he followed it up with the remix of Fergie's 'Big Girls Don't Cry', and then 'Me Love' and I was hooked. I'm not a fan of HIM, but of his music.
And so, I listened to his self-titled album, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually quite good! My favourite song on it is 'Take You There'. Its really heavy, and in this one he raps more, and its now on my 'Top 25 Most Played' songs on my Ipod.
Since his is a debut album, and I don't know how else to compliment it, so I'm gonna compare it with Hil's first album.
Incidentally, I just found out that Hilary's album was the highest opening week sales figure by a female artist in history. Anyway,
After some time to get over my love for 'Take You There', I realised that I would regret it if I said that any part of it was better than Metamorphosis, so I'm willing to say that if Metamorphosis was a benchmark, Sean Kingston would get a 90%, which is still very good!
Besides, Metamorphosis sold more on its first week of release than Sean Kingston did in 3 months (a.k.a since it was released). But unlike my first opinion of him, Sean Kingston (real name Kisean Anderson) actually does have a few ounces of talent in there.
I think he'll reach platinum eventually (Metamorphosis went close to 4x platinum - 3.7 million copies sold by March 2007), and maybe he should ring up Hilary's management team for some advice.
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