Ameriie Discography
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 AmerieIn Love & War Release Date 2009 11 03 Label Def Jam Rating:  After &"1 Thing" hit the Top Ten of the Hot 100 during the spring of 2005, Amerie was basically invisible. A follow-up single only grazed the Hip-Hop/R&B chart. Released in 2007, the adventurous Because I Love It, the singer's next album -- and, ironically, best work -- wasn't even issued in the U.S., possibly because its lead single slid off the chart within two weeks. Now on Def Jam, Amerie returns with In Love & War, an album that is much more creative than its title indicates while also playing out a bit like Because I Love It redux. Even with a few recycled ideas and the unlikeliness that she'll have another &"1 Thing," the singer has made a second excellent album without the help of Rich Harrison. She works with another assortment of co-producers and co-writers, including Eric Hudson, Sean Garrett, Warryn Campbell, Rico Love, Jim Jonson, Bryan-Michael Cox, and even Teddy Riley. As on Because I Love It, all the high-energy material is packed into the first half, where Amerie lays down the law, accosts, and flirts, and she even manages to seem in control when she falls into a romantic trap. &"Why R U" is a reminder that no one is better when it comes to breathing new life into a familiar breakbeat, while &"Higher" is surprisingly rocking, reined in just before spinning out of control. The first half is even better when it cools down a few degrees, as on the rewrite of Mint Condition's &"Breaking My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)," featuring Trey Songz, and &"More Than Love," where Amerie rides more Kool & the Gang horns and gets into an amusing spat with Fabolous. &"Swag Back" through &"Dear John" is all subdued and deals mostly with the war side -- accepting a lost cause, escaping "a living hell," and recovering from it -- though &"You're a Star" and &"Red Eye" provide a reprieve, with the latter the album's only true slow jam. Its alluringly bleary synthesizer cleverly enhances Amerie's half-awake mile-high-club state of bliss. Heartbreak ballads like &"The Flowers" and the &"Paint Me Over"-like &"Different People" might put off those who have an aversion to melodrama, but they are as well constructed as anything earlier in the set. Andy Kellman, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Tell Me You Love Me | Amerie Mi Marie, Freeman, Lowe, Riley, Scott, Prolifix | 3:07 |
| 2 | Heard 'Em All | Amerie Mi Marie, Garrett, Hudson | 3:23 |
| 3 | Dangerous | Amerie Mi Marie, Jeberg, Serrano | 2:48 |
| 4 | Higher | Amerie Mi Marie, Campbell | 2:52 |
| 5 | Why R U | Amerie Mi Marie, Johnson, Miller, Rooney, Thornton | 3:17 |
| 6 | Pretty Brown | Allen, Amerie Mi Marie, Landon, Lewis, Serrano, Waddell, Williams | 4:02 |
| 7 | More Than Love | Amerie Mi Marie, Bell, Brown, Jackson, Mickens, Nicholson, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Westfield | 4:14 |
| 8 | Swag Back | Amerie Mi Marie, Jonsin, Love, Siegel, Scheffer | 4:29 |
| 9 | You're a Star (Interlude) | Amerie Mi Marie, Nicholson | 1:52 |
| 10 | Red Eye | Amerie Mi Marie, Cox | 4:11 |
| 11 | Flowers | Amerie Mi Marie, Barias, Haggins | 5:16 |
| 12 | Different People | Amerie Mi Marie, Landon | 3:55 |
| 13 | Dear John | Amerie Mi Marie, Nicholson, Richards, Rumsey | 4:12 |
| 14 | Heard 'Em All [Remix] [*] | Amerie Mi Marie, Carter, Garrett, Hudson | 3:56 |
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