Return - Winans (The)

Advantages: a good album from a talented artest
Disadvantages: a couple of the songs spoil the flow

...It takes a brave man in the world of R&B to sample Enya, no offense to fans of the great lady, but Mario Winans has pulled this off credibility intact for the first release from his new album "Hurt no more". "I don’t wanna know" is a pained yet beautiful number where Mario pleads his woman to keep her infidelities "on the low" so as not to cause him further heart break. Although this is undoubtedly not a good foundation for Mr Winans to build a solid long term relationship on, one thinks they need to have a bit of a chat, it does make for a really emotive track. Particularly if you’ve just been dumped or cheated upon and need something to cry along too! Unfortunately Winans is not so successful at the bad boy tunes, "Pretty Girl Bullshit" feels rather out of place. However, this aside, Hurt No More has a beautiful and emotive... Read review

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Advantages: Great upbeat songs
Disadvantages: dissapointing followup to On The 6

..., and has a music career of her own and presents Wannabes for MTV. This song is about being in a club and the feeling you get when the DJ plays your favourite song and when it stops wishing that they would play it again. Track 4. Walking On Sunshine Walking On Sunshine was written by Jennifer Lopez, Sean Combs, Mario Winans, Michael ‘Lo’ Jones and Jack Knight. It was recorded at Daddy’s House Recording Studios in New York and Sony Music Studios in New York and produced by Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs for “The Hitmen”/Bad Boy Entertainment, Mario ‘Yellow Man’ Winans for Yellow City Entertainment/”The Hitmen”/Bad Boy Entertainment and Cory Rooney for Cory Rooney Entertainment. The background vocals on this song were sung by Karen Anderson and Adonis Shropshire. This song is about a couples... Read review

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Advantages: souful, great voice, some classics
Disadvantages: it almost feels like there wasn't enough tracks to fill the album

...Mario Winans is undoubtedly a great artist. His range in voice reminds me somewhat of a young R-Kelly however... The album titled "hurt no more" began to hurt... Although there are some great tracks on here the album lacks in quality due to the fact there simply aren't enough good quality tracks. I could count the number of good ones on the fingers of one hand which pains me to say cos I actually rate Mario Winans VERY highly from his previous black label stuff! Overall? I'd buy it again but to be honest I wish I'd listened to it before... Some of the stuff on here is awful - some brilliant. Mario if you ever read this - speak to your producer and ask for some more decent tracks to record not just album fillers!... Read review

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