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Label: Blackground Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,795
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001364502
UPC: 602527237732
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ASIN: B002QGUFWO
Release Date: December 8, 2009
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 Timbaland does it again, not a Vol 2 of Shock Value but a new kind of Shock Value December 9, 2009
Farhan Latif (Milpitas, CA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
From start to end Timbaland will keep your system bumping with this one. The album starts and ends hard but you have to get the Deluxe Edition. Highlights: Intro, Carry Out, Lose Control, Say Something, The One Symphony.
 Timbaland lost or forgot the Shock December 8, 2009
Eric G. Kiura (Toronto, ON)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had high expectations for this album because I was impressed and loved shock value 1.Timbaland's use of auto tune was too much for my liking. Timbaland has a unique voice that adds a different attitude to a song so I was disappointed to hear him using auto-tune on almost every song. His voice could have worked without all that computer enhancement.
I wasn't expecting the album to be lyrically enhancing based on the first album so I was hoping for the music to impress. The instrumentation is Timbaland at his best. The beats and rhythm are on point. If this cd was an instrumental I would have insisted on ten stars but since lyrics and melody have to play a part it fell flat on its behind. Carry out features Justin, Maybe I was expecting a lot based on the previous efforts of Give it To me and Release but this track is one of many on here where Timbaland is just talking about himself. Can he be that self gratifying that he needs a 2nd album centering around him and his achievements? I already read all that on Wikipedia. Timothy Where Have You Been is a song he should have sang in the shower.
The stand out tracks for me on this album are Undertow feat the Fray and Esthero, Marching On with One Republic.If he only lost the auto tune on Marching On and kept his involvement to a minimum like on Apologize this song will be a shoe in for the chart as its the only song that has good lyrics obvious credit goes to Ryan Tedder.
In Shock Value 1 there was a bit of variety with style of music and the artists that were featured also brought a different feel to the album. He had good cross genre tracks like Throw it on me with The Hives and One & only with Fall Out Boy. These tracks gave you a taste of rock/alternative as he managed to mix it a little of both hip hop and rock. Come around with M.I.A was also a good track. In Shock value 2 has the variety of artists but the music was the same all way through. When I read Chad Kroeger (Nickleback's front man), Daughtry & Esthero(Toronto's trip hop princess) were featured, I was excited to see what Tim could be brewing this time? There was no experiments with these artists. The tracks were basic and they didn't enhance this album or the songs at all they came of as remixes instead. I also didn't get why Miley Cyrus, Jojo and Kat Perry were on here was Timbaland trying to win the younger crowd? I doubt he'll get them.
All in all the album is ok not terrible but not great either. Its another album with meaningless lyrics and over used autotune maybe so that most of these tracks can find a home on a lot of DJ spins. So I'm giving it a 2.5 to 3 stars just for his beats. Good luck beating Shock Value 1 Tim.
Carry Out From the Cheese Factory January 21, 2010
Flap Jackson (State Road, NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ever since Santana brought down the musical house with his guest-heavy comeback album, he and others have tried to recapture the magic, to little success. Timbaland only hopes to recapture the music from the first Shock Value which was a hit 5 years ago, but he can't even do that much. The result is a shocking hit and miss that is as cheesy as all get out, and just plain stupid in parts.
Highlights Include:
Carry Out
Morning After Dark
If We Ever Meet Again
Timothy Where Have You Been
With lines like "Baby you're looking fine, I'll have you open all night like an IHOP." and "All we got is one chance & it's sink or swim. So, why rock the boat and make waves?" what exactly was Timbaland going for here? Did he really think this was some good, serious, relationship-themed R&B he was making? Maybe he just put up with some shoddy lyrics in hopes that his guests just shine through it all, but no artist saves a song, but instead contributes to the delinquency of cheesiness. In fact, a lot of talent is flat-out wasted here, i.e. The Fray, Justin Timberlake, Chad Kroeger. Thankfully, the music saves it in spots & provides from some nice groove, but then again even that devolves by the end of the album. The last two track are slower more ballady/soft pop pieces, with some Will Smith-style rapping mixed in for good measure. Really, Timbaland is a TERRIBLE rapper here and it's only Jet that reminds us that this is just a cheesy piece of pop, and not crap.
Overall, if you take as just a cheesy R&B/pop effort, then you'll have some fun with it. It's not as bad, as much as it is badly executed. And in this respect, it is shocking. So better luck next time Timbaland... Hopefully there won't be a next time.
Definitely not Shock Value 1 January 4, 2010
Michael G. Hoelen (Pirmasens, Germany; Merritt Island, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a big fan of Timbaland, this is definitely a new project for him. It's more pop oriented, focuses a lot on heavy vocoder use, and seems to be (what everyone else thinks about the album) aimed at the younger audiences compared to the Shock Value album. I read that he's also done with hip hop because a lot of rappers that he worked with are gone so now he's focusing more on producing than rapping. For those hoping to expect the same type of material from the first Shock Value, you'll be disappointed. He works with artists like Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Nickelback, Nelly Furtado, etc. This has more of a bubblegum pop sound (like I stated before). Not too bad but not that great either.
A Shocking let down from Timbaland December 8, 2009
Eric G. Kiura (Toronto, ON)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had high expectations for this album because I was impressed and loved shock value 1.Timbaland's use of auto tune was too much for my liking. Timbaland has a unique voice that adds a different attitude to a song so I was disappointed to hear him using auto-tune on almost every song. His voice could have worked without all that computer enhancement.
I wasn't expecting the album to be lyrically enhancing based on the first album so I was hoping for the music to impress. The instrumentation is Timbaland at his best. The beats and rhythm are on point. If this cd was an instrumental I would have insisted on ten stars but since lyrics and melody have to play a part it fell flat on its behind. Carry out features Justin, Maybe I was expecting a lot based on the previous efforts of Give it To me and Release but this track is one of many on here where Timbaland is just talking about himself. Can he be that self gratifying that he needs a 2nd album centering around him and his achievements? I already read all that on Wikipedia. Timothy Where Have You Been is a song he should have sang in the shower.
The stand out tracks for me on this album are Undertow feat the Fray and Esthero, Marching On with One Republic.If he only lost the auto tune on Marching On and kept his involvement to a minimum like on Apologize this song will be a shoe in for the chart as its the only song that has good lyrics obvious credit goes to Ryan Tedder.
In Shock Value 1 there was a bit of variety with style of music and the artists that were featured also brought a different feel to the album. He had good cross genre tracks like Throw it on me with The Hives and One & only with Fall Out Boy. These tracks gave you a taste of rock/alternative as he managed to mix it a little of both hip hop and rock. Come around with M.I.A was also a good track. In Shock value 2 has the variety of artists but the music was the same all way through. When I read Chad Kroeger (Nickleback's front man), Daughtry & Esthero(Toronto's trip hop princess) were featured, I was excited to see what Tim could be brewing this time? There was no experiments with these artists. The tracks were basic and they didn't enhance this album or the songs at all they came of as remixes instead. I also didn't get why Miley Cyrus, Jojo and Kat Perry were on here was Timbaland trying to win the younger crowd? I doubt he'll get them.
All in all the album is ok not terrible but not great either. Its another album with meaningless lyrics and over used autotune maybe so that most of these tracks can find a home on a lot of DJ spins. So I'm giving it a 2.5 to 3 stars just for his beats. Good luck beating Shock Value 1 Tim.
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