UNEXPECTED
Michelle can't help but win with this album!!!!
*****
By: WayneDaStar
The album starts off with the Unexpected Intro in which Michelle states, “You didn’t expect me…Did you expect….oh nooo….” And then immediately runs into the club banging ode to heartbreak “Hello Heartbreak”. It seems most would run away from any heartache but in the lyrics Michelle proclaims, “I’ve got a strange connection to pain…I’m always running into danger zones..It cut’s me deep but I’m still wanting more” and in the chorus she belts out, “Hello heartbreak, it’s good to see you, happiness came, but it just lets me down..”
She keeps up the dance pace with the first single, “We Break The Dawn” and then Slows it down with the silky “Lucky Girl Intro”, but quickly speeds back up again with the actual “Lucky Girl” track. Michelle really showcases the unexpected with lyrics such as, “He works me like a full time job, but I love it when he takes me down…”
This album screams CLUBBANGER. The sweaty phasered, “Hungover” drips with body grinding sweat and sex. You can’t help but feel the bass bumping throughout the track. Michelle coos over the track throughout the verses. She doesn’t go to hard with the track, but rides it like a wave. It’s like a battle. Michelle’s sweet vocals and the angry beat. Clearly Michelle comes out on top. Her sexual prowess is in full force, but yet she exudes class at the same time. I know what you’re thinking, Michelle Williams??!! Yep. That’s her.
The title track, “Unexpected” is a take my guitar and leave your ass kiss-off to an ex lover who didn’t see the breakup coming. She sings, “So unexpected, the tables have turned, I’m laughing now, because the joke is on you…” She seems so confident and so focused. Like she’s found her niche in the music biz. From what the showcases with this album, it pretty much seems so.
The album also boasts plenty more body bumpin, dance grooves such as “We Break The Dawn Pt. 2” (Feat. Flo-Rida), a very “UNEXPECTED” collab, and HIT! It’s undeniably great.
With all the dance tracks, you would think that ballads would have no place in this party, well that is not so. Michelle delivers the mid-tempos and ballads flawlessly. Tracks like, the Stargate produced, “Stop This Car” and “The Greatest” hold their own throughout the album. With “Too Young For Love” Michelle shows versatility. She blends in with the pop crowd. The track could go toe to toe with, Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and Nelly Furtado’s “Say It Right”.
The two standout tracks from this album would have to be euro pop transfused, “Til The End Of The World” and “Thank U”. In ‘End Of The World” Michelle asks, “Would you be my lover, forsakin’ all others?” She then goes on to sing, “What if they put me in prison, for reasons that you’d never know, would you stand beside me and call me your wifey, would you love me forever, or would you go?” She asks many questions, and is looking for answers, and by listening to the song, you can’t help but want to answer. It’s a track that stands out in a world full of crap and redundant hits, and would last throughout time. It’s a classic in it’s own right. And in “Thank U” Michelle is accompanied by a beautiful acoustic guitar, and starts off with, “bet you’re surprised, to see me waiting up for you…” Her vocals are amazing. They ooze with passion and emotion. And not just the vocals, the lyrics are on point and she sounds believable. She goes on to sing, “I wanna thank U for the times you cheated on, cause I almost loved you forever, never woulda found someone better….” Note to whoever she’s thanking, “WHAT AN ASS!!” You can’t help but to feel like one if you listened to that track, knowing it was about you….
This is hands down a classic. The production is flawless, and so are the vocals and LYRICS. It’s great to have great dance material, but what makes it even better, is that the lyrics are intelligent and actually mean something. Go and get this quickly!!!
