Cassie - "Cassie"(2006)

[Wave.]

Released: August 7, 2006
Billboard 200: #4
321,000+ to date

Singles:
"Me & U"(US #3)

"Long Way 2 Go"(US #97)


Love this album so much. Underrated imo. "Kiss Me" & "Can't Do It Without You" is my favorites.

[Caviar]

"Long Way 2 Go" still bops.

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Besides Long Way 2 Go and Me & U, I only liked this album for Ryan Leslie's production.

I won't say that she can't sing, because she can technically. But here, her voice was just so lifeless and untrained that she just sounded like a demo singer on all of these songs. The material was good but she doesn't add anything to it so it comes out as kind of a mediocre final effort imo.

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This was a great album for Ryan Leslie.

[Me. I Am Justin...]

"Miss Your Touch" <3

[Linnethia Monique]

Besides the singles, Ditto and Call U Out minus Yung Joc were my jams. Also some of the unreleased tracks as well.

[Live Your Life]

Feb 22, 2014 15:11:23 GMT -5 @jazzysoul47 said:

This was a great album for Ryan Leslie.

Basically.

AllMusic gave the album 4/5 stars:

By the time Cassie's first album was released in August 2006, her first single had been on the Billboard pop chart for nearly four months and reached nine million plays through her MySpace page. The page, set up in late 2005, was part of a strategy that sparked a lot of chatter and eventually landed the model-turned-vocalist on Diddy's Bad Boy label. With plenty of anticipation already in place, Diddy stepped aside, and allowed his new signing -- along with her musical partner, Ryan Leslie, a studio do-it-all with credits on songs by Britney Spears and Donell Jones -- to run her course. "Me&U," the decidedly unwholesome track that excited so many MySpace users, became one of the spring/summer hits of 2006, following the likes of Ciara's "Goodies" and Teairra Marí's "Make Her Feel Good" as a sexy, assertive single with an intricate and space-filled arrangement that doesn't batter the ears into submission. The looming synthesizer patterns, along with Cassie's upfront vocal, combine with an ice-cream-truck melody to give it a slightly twisted and threatening edge contained by none of its like-sounding predecessors. The second single, the snapping and swirling "Long Way 2 Go," is just as irresistible in its flippant playfulness. Cassie scolds a hopeless suitor with such cutting nonchalance -- she's basically swatting a fly -- that you can see her delivering the lines by cellphone as she eyes a display of designer shoes. As a vocalist, Cassie has enough character and ability to sell her material without fail. And there will never not be a need for a vocalist who doesn't handle each stage of a relationship as if her life depends on it.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Great album! The great production surely made up for her flat, monotonous vocals.