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The emotional core of Talk A Good Game is “Dirty Laundry,” a plea for honesty. (Her song with Beyonce and Michelle, from Destiny’s Child, evokes ‘90s hip-hop soul.) Instead of focusing on escape through pleasure, Talk A Good Game concentrates on conversation, and when necessary, confrontation. There are plenty of buzzing synths and chattering drums, but Rowland’s up-to-date R&B sound rarely slips into the speedier world of clubs. An abundance of thumping electronics worked to fit the album into the pop-scape, and Rowland tried to establish herself as self-aware-“I’m not cocky, I just love myself”-sexual, and in control-“I’mma be your motivation,” “I’m Dat Chick,” “Down For Whatever.”īut on Talk a Good Game, Rowland largely ignores the dance floor, and after the initial burst of libido in the opening songs-“Freak” and “Kisses Down Low”-she doesn’t go in for heavy breathing either.

Rowland’s previous album, Here I Am from 2011, fluctuated between seduction on the dance floor and in the bedroom, exhortations to potential dancers and lovers. She brings in some high profile collaborators, like Pusha T, Wiz Khalifa and the Dream, but this is all about Rowland looking for closure, turning away from a cycle of lies, omissions and half-truths.

This is an album about working things through, coming to grips with bad relationships, sexual or platonic-“Love is pain and pain is love, got me fucked up,” sings Rowland. On Talk A Good Game, the latest album from Kelly Rowland, the singer finally emerges from the long shadow of her friend, fellow Destiny’s Child alumna and pop’s reigning queen Beyoncé.

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