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What a letdown. After a year filled with controversy, allegations, and investigations, Murder Inc label head Irv Gotti finished it on Ashanti's Christmas with his least slick and least satisfying production work. Ashanti's voice fits sweet holiday music well, and she could deliver an excellent Christmas album given the chance, but it seems Gotti can't be bothered to surround her with anything worthwhile. Multi-instrumentalist Demi "Doc" McGhee provides the accompaniment in total, and the poor guy has to emulate a whole orchestra with what sounds like a lone synthesizer. McGhee's piano is hollow and synthetic, and the arrangements are uninspired. Ashanti contributes four new compositions with "Christmas Time Again" and "Sharing Christmas" being simple and sweet, but her "Hey Santa" is a materialistic embarrassment that begs the big guy for a "baby blue convertible." A drum machine that chugs on and on before someone has the good sense to turn it off takes up the last 30 seconds of the 20-minute album. It's a perfectly lifeless moment that caps off a perfectly humdrum album. According to the rumors, relations between Ashanti and Murder Inc had gone sour. Ashanti's Christmas sounds like the standard contractual obligation getaway.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Andre Parker, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, ComposerLyricist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Chink Santana, Producer - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mel TORME, Composer - Robert Wells, Author - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Kalle Moraeus, Arranger, Work Arranger - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bengan Jansson, Arranger, Work Arranger - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, ComposerLyricist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Donny Hathaway, ComposerLyricist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine McKinnor, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti, MainArtist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 Def Jam Records
Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, ComposerLyricist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Joseph Mohr, Author, Original Text Author - Franz Xaver Gruber, ComposerLyricist - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Isaac Watts, ComposerLyricist - Lowell Mason, ComposerLyricist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Felix Bernard, Composer - Richard B. Smith, Author - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, ComposerLyricist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, MainArtist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry 'T-Mac' Herbert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Demi Doc McGhee, Producer - Demetrius McGhee, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Nick Cannon, Arranger, Work Arranger - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Irv Gotti, Producer - Ashanti, MainArtist - Doug Holzapfel, Arranger, Work Arranger - Kevin Milledge II, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
Album review
What a letdown. After a year filled with controversy, allegations, and investigations, Murder Inc label head Irv Gotti finished it on Ashanti's Christmas with his least slick and least satisfying production work. Ashanti's voice fits sweet holiday music well, and she could deliver an excellent Christmas album given the chance, but it seems Gotti can't be bothered to surround her with anything worthwhile. Multi-instrumentalist Demi "Doc" McGhee provides the accompaniment in total, and the poor guy has to emulate a whole orchestra with what sounds like a lone synthesizer. McGhee's piano is hollow and synthetic, and the arrangements are uninspired. Ashanti contributes four new compositions with "Christmas Time Again" and "Sharing Christmas" being simple and sweet, but her "Hey Santa" is a materialistic embarrassment that begs the big guy for a "baby blue convertible." A drum machine that chugs on and on before someone has the good sense to turn it off takes up the last 30 seconds of the 20-minute album. It's a perfectly lifeless moment that caps off a perfectly humdrum album. According to the rumors, relations between Ashanti and Murder Inc had gone sour. Ashanti's Christmas sounds like the standard contractual obligation getaway.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:29:11
- Main artists: Ashanti
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: I.G. Records, Inc. - Universal Records
- Genre: Ambient/New Age Christmas Music
© 2003 M.I. Records, LLC. ℗ 2003 M.I. Records, LLC.
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