Jennifer Hudson returns to the music scene with her sophomore album, I Remember Me. In the last few years, her life has experienced love, loss and motherhood. After the tragic murders of her mother and nephew, and the overwhelming change in her look, it came as no surprise that this album would be conceptualized to account all those experiences. She explains that the album is an attempt to bridge the old and new Jennifers.
Hudson recruited some of the industry's best to help her work on this album. R. Kelly, Ne-Yo, Rich Harrison and Polow Da Don are some of the people who worked with her on this album. The sound direction of this album is typical Jennifer, no pop records, no overly-sexed records and no club-friendly songs. All we get are strong, powerful vocals and quite a number of gospel-like ballads.
It is a pretty solid album for the main fact that Hudson maintains her sound, this album sounds no different from her Grammy-award winning debut album. In the music atmosphere out there right now, I think you have to continue to re-invent yourself and not sound the same way. Yes, her voice is out of this world, and yes, she is sticking to the sound people like to hear from her but her material needs more edge and substance.
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