Kelly Rowland: Here I Am – review

(Universal/Island)Pity the woman destined to be compared with Beyoncé for the rest of her career. On Rowland's third solo album, however, it's not her Destiny's Child BFF you hear but another R&B queen bee. Full of new-found sauce and assertiveness, Rowland seems to have learned a thing or two from Rihanna. Sadly, much of the material is generic: bland Euro bangers such as the abjectly titled "Down for Whatever" abound, but sometimes, as on the sex-soaked Lil Wayne collaboration "Motivation", R...

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