The Singles Jukebox

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Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland – Gone

Better be a floating car in the video, babe…



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Jer Fairall: A ridiculously belated, completely uncalled-for and at best pleasantly forgettable sequel — the musical equivalent of Another Stakeout, basically.
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Josh Langhoff: Less a sequel than a re-imagining: what if “Dilemma” didn’t have a hook?
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Alfred Soto: Nine years after “Dilemma,” the prince and princess of adolescent robo-soul return with an even more rote duet, but there’s a difference: while Kelly remains a cipher, Nelly can’t resist singing his ass off or gamely treating his vocal. “Can we be serious for a minute?” the girl asks. “Sure,” the boy says, farting. A classic scenario.
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Martin Skidmore: I like Kelly’s vocal, but it’s mostly him, and he is dull, not helped by a kind of soporific retread of its predecessor’s beats.
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Zach Lyon: Maybe it’s selfish, but I’d rather have a washed-up commercially-unsuccessful Nelly with a personality than this faceless R&B singer crud he’s set on now. And I don’t remember Rowland sounding this shrill in “Dilemma,” where they actually had something of a working dynamic together.
[3]

Anthony Easton: The generic plainness and lack of effort here prove why Kelly Rowland and Nelly are hasbeens.
[4]

Chuck Eddy: I didn’t think 5.0 was all that bad an album. “1000 Stacks,” with Biggie and Diddy, was the best track. This one and the one with Keri Hilson were the longest.
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