With the exception of "Promise," The Evolution lacks clear-cut highlights on the level of "Goodies," "1, 2 Step," and "Oh," but there are fewer outright disposables. (Even the album's sleek cover, somewhere between Robocop and the Pointer Sisters' Break Out, has a devolved look.) Those who can disregard the discrepancies between the pronouncements and the actual content will find an album that's on equal footing with Goodies. Yet, for all the talk of developing and being different, one might expect an album not as firmly rooted in electro and early '80s R&B as Goodies. The song is tremendous, one of the sexiest, slow-tempo, non-breakup songs of the past ten years. Take "The Evolution of Music," where she states, "I feel like music is so different than what it used to be, and because of that, I was inspired to do something different this time around." And then in comes "Promise," yet another song referencing Kraftwerk and Zapp, and it also takes cues from prime Janet Jackson and Aaliyah - so, no, it's not different at all. Ciara's second album, The Evolution is held together by a handful of immaterial monologues that would be best left to an interview disc. Evolution is a slow process, so it shouldn't be startling that The Evolution is not a quantum leap forward from Goodies.
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