{"id":12470,"date":"2012-06-26T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2020-11-06T23:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T04:48:57","slug":"audio-review-write-me-back-album-r-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=12470","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Write Me Back ( album ) &#8230; R Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/12470.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : Write Me Back ( album ) ... R Kelly\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>R Kelly put a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcellee.com\/?p=95183\" title=\"audio review : Love Letter ( album ) ... R Kelly\">Love Letter<\/a> in the mailbox a couple of years ago. It was dedicated to the ladies. This is the follow-up entitled Write Me Back because, as far as he&#8217;s concerned, the best albums were made before email and phone texting. It&#8217;s a record of new soul songs that sound like old soul songs, a trip back to the 1970s and 1960s, and, like that last album, it&#8217;s a case of style over substance.<\/p>\n<p>R Kelly handles almost all of the production and that&#8217;s fantastic. He&#8217;s always been his own best musician. The instrumental backing sounds gorgeous, sometimes perfectly so. The first song captures the magic of Marvin Gaye. It&#8217;s the vocal melodies that are lacking and that&#8217;s a shame because catchy vocals were a given back when the singer made albums with no special formulas or gimmicks.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R Kelly put a Love Letter in the mailbox a couple of years ago. It was dedicated to the ladies. This is the follow-up entitled Write Me Back because, as far as he&#8217;s concerned, the best albums were made before email and phone texting. It&#8217;s a record of new soul songs that sound like old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=12470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Write Me Back ( album ) &#8230; R Kelly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[238,102],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-r-kelly","tag-romance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101388,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/101388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}