Much of his material is of a “grown folks’ R&B ” ilk, but never sounds stodgy, taking pages more from the John Legend and (occasionally) Justin Timberlake playbooks. Did I mention he plays piano, guitar, and drums as well? Yeah, Thicke’s got talent. (He’s also got Prince’s unfortunate predilection for “to = 2” and “for = 4,” but that’s easily ignored.) Also like Prince, he (co-)produces and (co-)writes his own material, and sounds effortless doing it. Following on from the promise shown in his debut single, 2003’s “When I Get You Alone,” Evolution shows that while Thicke’s not quite to greatness yet, he’s on his way.įirst of all, Thicke’s got a falsetto just as sweet as Prince’s, and maybe even creamier.
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His father is sitcom star (and TV theme penner) Alan Thicke, while his mother is former soap star (and TV theme penner, really) Gloria Loring, who had a #2 single in 1987 with the so-overblown-even-Celine-Dion-wouldn’t-touch-it Carl Anderson duet “Friends & Lovers.” Shouldn’t that make their son Robin something along the lines of, say, Vanilla Ice? Or even Pat Boone? Fortunately, that’s not the case at all, as his long-delayed sophomore effort, The Evolution of Robin Thicke, is almost ridiculously soulful.
Y all rights, Robin Thicke should be damned near the whitest man alive.
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