Besides title song, “Talk Dirty” album disappoints

Elena Wandzilak | TV Editor

I am going to be frank with you all: I love Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty.” I love the version featuring 2 Chainz. I love the version with the saxophone break instead of 2 Chainz. I even love the Spanish version. As soon as that little laugh comes through my car radio, I am 100-percent ready to “get jazzy” with Jason.

Yes, “Talk Dirty” (the song) is not an award-winning masterpiece. It talks about “booties” too much and defines women by just their body parts and probably inspired my favorite “Saturday Night Live” sketch, “Dongs All Over The World,” but you have to admit that it’s fun. The beat is pretty banging. It’s a great song for highway driving or late-night dancing.

The rest of Jason Derulo’s new album, “Talk Dirty,” however, is not my cup of tea.

Aside from the three released singles—“Talk Dirty,” “The Other Side” and “Marry Me”—the other eight tracks spent a majority of the time discussing rear ends and sounding similar to one another. “Wiggle” and “Bubblegum” seemed focused exclusively on praising women’s rear ends, and you know you have an awful album when lines like “you know what to do with that big fat butt” and “shawty right there got a ghetto booty” aren’t even some of the worst on the album.

Many of the tracks start to sound the same as pop-dance tracks with some hip-hop influence, and while they may be fun to dance to for a short time at a party, they are mostly forgettable. Tracks follow one after another without too much individuality, and when there is a break from the typical dance track, like “Vertigo,” featuring “American Idol” winner and long-time Derulo girlfriend Jordin Sparks, I was still disappointed. Derulo seems to be following the pop trend of repeating the same phrases over and over again, which helped me quickly learn the lyrics but left me unsatisfied with his writing ability. He also spends time mentioning other artists like Kanye West, Katy Perry and Coldplay as ways to describe the girl he is talking to, which unfortunately reminded me that I would rather be listening to their songs than his. Derulo also manages to sing about the iPhone 5 and Instagram, so maybe he is catering toward the social media crowd?

If you like 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, Tyga or Kid Ink, you are in luck as they all are featured on this album, adding their vocals to tracks “Talk Dirty,” “Wiggle,” “Bubblegum” and “Kama Sutra,” respectively.

Basically, Jason Derulo’s album will be good to turn on when you want to get up and shake your rump for a little, but aside from that, I would stick to listening to the tracks that are already on the radio and picture Bill Clinton playing the trumpet during the saxophone break of “Talk Dirty,” just like I always do.

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