The Heat

The Heat Artist: Toni Braxton
Label: Arista
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 730082606929
EAN: 0730082606929
ASIN: B00004R7SN


Release Date: 2000-04-25

The Heat


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Tracks:

  1. He Wasn't Man Enough
  2. The Heat
  3. Spanish Guitar
  4. Just Be A Man About It
  5. Gimme Some
  6. I'm Still Breathing
  7. Fairy Tale
  8. The Art Of Love
  9. Speaking In Tongues
  10. Maybe
  11. You've Been Wrong
  12. Never Just For A Ring

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  5. The Boy Is Mine

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After a nearly four-year absence from recording, Toni Braxton returns with <I>The Heat</I>, her third album. Full of drama--sometimes melodrama--it unsurprisingly puts Braxton's rich voice and command of nuance front and center of one state-of-the-art track after another. Unfortunately, <I>The Heat</I> plays up her taste for ballads to such a point that the disc bores itself into a quiet-storm rut. The big exception is the Rodney Jerkins-produced first single, "He Wasn't Man Enough." The song's smoldering rebuff and Jerkins's measured funk make a perfect match for Braxton's matter-of-fact hauteur. She also delivers a tough take on reality with "Just Be a Man About It," which pits her against Dr. Dre in a breakup scenario that carries much more force than weightless trifles such as the filler sex-me-up "The Art of Love" and Diane Warren's "Spanish Guitar." <I>--Bob Roget

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Toni's Changed Her Style, But Still Good.......2007-03-16

After Toni's bankruptcy trial, she came back with The Heat a great album but if you're looking for another Secrets then you'll be disappointed. The album's opener "He Wasn't Man Enough" was a banger and all women could relate to this track and Toni was looking sexy in the video, the title track was good and ballads "Spanish Guitar", and "Fairy Tale" are good listens but the best one was without a doubt "Speaking in Tongues" and it should've been released as a single. This album was pretty solid but the last two track should've been left off. But Toni fans won't be disappointed.

4 out of 5 stars ..........2006-12-04

I was reluctant to bring this out of the vaults, because I remember how everybody said this album was terrible. I guess I took their opinion as mine and just forgot about this album. But when I finally started listening, I was pleasantly surprised. No, this is not another Secrets or even her debut album, but it is still very good. She manages to keep her old style while still incorporating new ideas. There are a few minor missteps, and "The Art of Love" should have just been left off completely, but the rest is quality. It makes me sad that she went from this to More Than A Woman...

4 out of 5 stars The voice speaks for itself. . . ........2006-09-06

Like a great many Black female R&B vocalists these days, Toni Braxton can't seem to keep enough of her clothes on (see Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson). Braxton is now approaching 40 and it's almost as if she--like Carey and Jackson--doesn't trust her voice or music enough to stand on its own without that tired marketing gimmick of skin-baring (one of the sexiest photos of her was the back cover of her debut album, a stunning shot of her tastefully dressed in a simple yet elegant black mini-dress, her hair stylishly cropped) . Fortunately, "The Heat" proves that Braxton can still sizzle if given the right material. To be sure, the CD has more than its share of filler material, but when Braxton is on, she's great! For me, the highlights included the title track, the feisty uptempo "He wasn't man enough," the Babyface-inspired "Fairytale," "Just be a Man About It" (in which she offers an indignant call-and-response to a wayward Dr. Dre) and the tongue-twisting "Maybe." I also loved the pulsating groove of "The Art of Love," a song that is about as steamy and sexy as an instrumental can get. I hope Braxton is around for the long haul, but someone should tell her (maybe her husband?) that there is nothing more sexy than the imagination--something you can't literally see. She should leave the striptease act to non-singers like Britney Spears. Braxton's voice is more than enough to satisfy. . . .


1 out of 5 stars BAD.......2006-03-24

SHE ISN'T A GOOD VOCALIST, THIS CD IS A WASTE OF MONEY, BUY INTO SOMEONE GOOD. I'D RATHER BUY COUNTRY WESTERN MUSIC.

5 out of 5 stars The heat that grows on you.......2005-10-27

"The Heat" is Toni's best album, with more mid-tempo songs than her last one, it's my favorite album. There's people who thinks that Hip-Hop doesn't go with her, but everyone has the freedom of taste new sounds, and this was her case.
This 3rd album was Toni's transition into a Gangsta R&B, saddly many fans and Toni herself said that it isn't her style... Anyway, if I liked it that's my business, don't you think so?
The lead single "He Wasn't Man Enough" (produced by Rodney Jerkins) was a hit; saddly the other singles only had moderate success. "Gimme some" and "Speaking in tongues" deserved to be commercially released.

HE WASN'T MAN ENOUGH +5/5
The song that started it all, I remember it when I was on the 7th grade
THE HEAT 4/5
The main title of the album, it's cool
SPANISH GUITAR +5/5
...Me gustar?a tenerte en mis brazos amor...
JUST BE A MAN ABOUT IT Featuring Dr. Dre +5/5
I love it. It grew on me
GIMME SOME Featuring Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC +5/5
Featuring some rhymes by her, the song is one of the bests of the album
I'M STILL BREATHING 5/5
It grows on you, beautiful lyrics courtesy of Dianne Warren
FAIRY TALE +5/5
That's another highlight. Grew on me
THE ART OF LOVE +5/5
A semi-instrumental track, like Madonna's "Justify my love"
SPEAKING IN TONGUES +5/5
Toni wrote this one. The best song of the album, to me her best to date. This song serves to do a lot of things (With your girl/boy or alone).
MAYBE +5/5
Amazing song, it grew on me too
YOU'VE BEEN WRONG 3/5
This song is weak, a bit odious too
NEVER JUST FOR A RING 4/5
Simply good

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