ciara - promise



ciara's janet tribute is still better than janet's janet tribute!

anyway. wow this is aces. ciara builds up two years worth of spazzy electro rnb and bloody bubblecrunk notoriety, then sort of flicks at it like it's a load of well organized dominoes. any expectations you may have about a new ciara single work in favour of swaying-on-the-spot, bjork-drummed devotional ballad "promise" cos a) you will be totally confounded which is usually quite nice, and b) ciara's voice will make everything seem 10x more pop than it really ought to be anyway.

and if you dont give a toss about ciara's career arc, all i can say is this is a very real and very beautiful song. and i love that guitar-synth sound in the chorus. and i love her spoken word declaration to 'never... never EVER hurt you.' quite scary!

(i feel bad for paul poli cos now when someone like mariah picks up the phone and says 'get me that polly pauly polow guy' she's probably gonna get polow da don)

(but polow da don is very good)