Keri Hilson's No Boys Allowed Album Review

That joint was sick, yo!

And I have not always been a Keri Hilson fan. Actually, after her train wreck of a first album, which, to my own personal opinion, was hyped up entirely way too much, this sophomore effort was what should have been released the first time. I guarantee it that Keri Hilson would have been a little more appreciated and relevant right now.


Okay...let's start from the beginning.

'No Boys Allowed' starts off with Buyou, which is a song about how a dude better have his life correct before he even has a THOUGHT about stepping to Keri, which I think is a little appropriate despite the fact that people seem to be on Keri's bumper lately about her contradictory lyrics. I mean, Keri is probably pulling a lot of dough on her end, what she look like trying to settle for a broke ass dude? What the heck did you expect, her to have songs on how it doesn't matter if you're a garbage man, its what's on the inside that counts?

C'mon, son...

If you are a barber, expecting to have a shot with Keri Hilson, I'm sorry, but you are definitely poorly mistaken.

Next on the album is Pretty Girl Rock, which everyone knows by now is supposed to be a women's empowerment anthem, or something like that, which I guess serves its purpose in some kind of way...Hey, it IS on my iPod, right next to Fancy by Drake, so I can't hate...at all.

Following that is the ever talked about The Way You Love Me. Okay. I had a very negative view of the song in the beginning, seeing as I saw it with the music video and was blinded by the p*ssy displayed on the screen, and the sleezy clothing, and the yelling that was on the friggin song! It was enough to make your eyes and ears bleed. BUT, after hearing Keri explain it on Perez Hilton's interview, I gotta admit it, y'all...She got me. I understood completely. It was a cocky ode to just wanting to have sex, rough, dirty, uncensored without all of the foreplay BS that men think we want ALL THE TIME. She was just saying, "Nigga, just freakin' stop caressing me and let's do what it do!" Its very hard to talk about this and stay clean...LOL

Next is Bahm Bahm (Do It Once Again)/ I Want You. To me, this was an epic fail, the only track I hated. I love me some Carribean style music, I do. But if you can't do it right? Then don't do it at all. To me, I found myself saying, maybe it woulda been a little better if Rihanna did it. She had no accent, which is not to say that you need one, but it just sounds better if you had one and wasn't trying so friggin hard to fake it. IDK, the accent thing made it super hard to listen to, and I bet it Rock City chose another artist to shop the song to, maybe it would have sounded a little better, you know? But this got some thimbs down for me.

One Night Stand is my SHIT! I may be slightly biased because Chris Brown is my baby-daddy, but hey, he jump on a track, and normally, usually, its a hit. And it just to me sounded good.

Okay, this is taking forever, so I'm bout to speed it up.

Lose Control and Gimme What I Want are excellent party songs just talking about what The Way You Love Me and One Night Stand are talking about. They just want you to dance and she wanna take control and all that. Both songs I like the sound and feel of.

Toy Soldier, Beautiful Mistake and All The Boys are great ballads that I feel speak to any normal girl's soul. They give me life in the best way possible. Like from the beginning til the end, I was captivated and I fell in love with those songs, All the Boys being my favorite.

Breaking Point is ...eh. It's aight, I just don't like how it sounds, but I like what it says, because its true. But the sound is a bit whiny to me. SO, the jury is still out on THAT one.

So, all in all, in my opinion...Keri Hilson's album is definitely goin in my chill playlist alongside Miguel's All I Want Is You and Jazmine Sullivan's Love Me Back. I give it a thumbs up :)