'Not too many good girls...got their own flow...'
Breezy, easy, light, frisky, jazzy, that's about how I would describe this cd!! It's a great listen when you wanna just mellow out with enough energy to vibe to!! Great debut!!! My favorite would have to be 'Good Girls'! I loved the message, the rhythm, everything about that cut!! Truthfully, she did a super job on all the songs!

Subconsciously, I find myself rocking with the beats and on certain tracks, her voice takes me to a Billie Holliday song!! Bluesy yet intoxicating!

I will mos def be looking for her in the future! Great job!

Golden voice, simply irresistible!
Some artists are born musicians and others are just entertainers with good looks or dance moves. Chrisette Michele is simply a musician blessed with a juicy voice and great songwriting skills and with such an incredible album; she proves she doesn't need to emulate Madonna in order to deliver quality stuff. It's important to note that Chrisette cowrote all songs on this album and her talent is felt in songs like the Grammy nominated "If I have my way" which is one of my favorites.

She also managed to build a great team behind her project with legendary producer/songwriter Babyface who's the architect of some of the best moments on this album, the poignant "Best of Me" and the tribute to her father "Joy". Trust me, when Face is really brokenhearted, he can seriously drop honest and poignant lines... "Loved you, lost you thought I'd give you all the best of me... We departed broken hearted, I need to be free. What we had was Oh so lovely I'll swallow my pain... It's my time to find the best of me".

Will.i.am joins the party and brings the funk touches on I Am with "Let's Rock" and is featured on the Bob Marley-ish "Be OK" - it reminds me of "Could you be loved".
My man John Legend wrote and played that piano on "Love is you", a beautiful song which brings to mind his platinum hit "ordinary people". On the Salaam Remi produced ill track "Good Girl", Michele defines what makes a man golden and she insists she's ain't looking for his dough!

There is another decent slowjam called "Mr. Radio", simply irresistible!

This is in my opinion one of the best R&B albums of 2007; it is soulful, mature, pleasant and I still can't get enough of it which I must admit is rare with 00s releases. I strictly recommend this masterpiece and I pray that artists like Alicia Keys, Jill Scott and Chrisette Michele keep making soulful music to save the pollution caused by artificial cats like Pussycat Dolls or all these other J-Los wannabes.

She Sure Is
Wow, I am SO late to the Chrisette Michele party. I recently picked this up and was amazed when I finally listened to it. Michele's vocals are a weird mix of Phoebe Snow, Erykah Badu, Billie Holiday, but it works for her. She shines on Your Joy, Mr. Radio, Golden, and If I Have My Way, but the rest of the disc is not slacking in any way. The uptempo tracks Let's Rock, Be OK, and Good Girl will surely have you bobbing your head and singing along. Lyrically clever and thought-provoking, with some fun thrown in, Michele has done her debut proud! Silly me, I should have picked this up when it first hit the store shelves.

She has a light and airy beat
She has a nice light airy sound. She learned pretty well from the great vocalists Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and Natalie Cole, but if you listen to her she has a style of her own apart from these great ladies.

A Gift
I bought this for my fiance and she loves it! She will play the cd at least once everyday and just when we gave up on today's artist this young lady graced us with her melodic sound. Miss Michele has a gift and I hope that she can use it to continue to produce excellent music.