It's not bad for a debut, but it leans a bit too much on the Motown imitations.
While borrowing so heavily from the Motown playbook isn't bad -- the songs are catchy and even entertaining -- it does simply make me want to play the classic songs that she's referencing rather than listen to her tracks.
When she finally steers a bit away from the Motown sound, her songs are sometimes and more point to potentially good albums in the future.
It's a slightly welcoming detour in that she simply doesn't mimic the styles of most R&B-pop female singers these days, but her other tracks tend to sound like Alicia Keys and, at this album's worst, generic pop R&B.
She's a name to look forward to, and hopefully the label will give her chances to grow on subsequent albums, something that labels don't seem to do much anymore.
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