 CD Review: Robin Thicke – Sex Therapy
By Joe Diedericks
Robin Thicke is to R&B what Woody Harrelson was to basketball in the 1992 movie White men can’t jump. He shouldn’t sound this smooth, he shouldn’t dress this cool and he shouldn’t be number 1 on the Hip Hop charts... yet he is all these things.
Sex Therapy breaks away from the normal depressed sound Thicke gave us in the last few years and we hear a man who is confident about his sexuality and what he can offer the ladies. The difference between Thicke and his gangster contributors (Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and Kid Cudi) is that he makes it sound stylish and almost achievable to the man on the street. Mixing various styles of music together, Thicke found perfect harmony between R&B, soul and hip hop, and that requires natural talent.
Listening to Rollacoasta and It’s in the morning, you can’t help but move along with the beat and bop your head. If this is the new direction Thicke is heading in, we can expect some big things in the future.
Pros: More upbeat and listenable than previous albums
Cons: You can’t listen to this when your kids are in the room; they might learn too much
Digital Life says: There should be a law against being this smooth
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