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Masterpiece Theatre

 
Album Review: Masterpiece Theatre

  • Artist: En Vogue
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: May 23, 2000
  • Total Time: 4:39
  • Genre: Rhythm & Blues

Review

Whether it was caused by Dawn Robinson's absence or the questionable manipulations of their production team, En Vogue's first release as a trio, EV3, was a disappointment. Masterpiece Theatre, their second album since Robinson's departure, shows the group in much finer form. The silky-smooth harmonies are still there, combined with forceful solos and sassy and intelligent lyrics. "Love U Crazay" and "Those Dogs" both explore the liabilities of love in an aggressively funny way, set to famous classical music melodies, while still keeping funky R&B flavors. More traditional love songs pepper the rest of the album, but throughout, Masterpiece Theatre manages to accomplish what few albums do -- being clever and classy at the same time. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Riddle (Lyrics) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Maxine Jones, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (5:10)
No No No (Can't Come Back) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Maxine Jones, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (3:09)
Falling in Love (Lyrics) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Maxine Jones, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (4:08)
Suite Intro (Dialogue) En Vogue (:26)
Love U Crazay (Lyrics) Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy En Vogue (4:19)
Sad But True (Lyrics) Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy En Vogue (4:08)
Love Won't Take Me Out (Lyrics) Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy En Vogue (4:59)
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Maxine Jones, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (4:43)
Suite Outro En Vogue (:05)
Beat of Love (Lyrics) Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy En Vogue (4:13)
Latin Soul (Lyrics) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Maxine Jones, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (4:32)
Work It Out (Lyrics) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (4:27)
Those Dogs (Lyrics) Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Maxine Jones, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron, Robert Page En Vogue (4:09)
Number One Man (Lyrics) Curtis Mayfield, Marlon McClain, Terry Ellis, Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Cindy Herron En Vogue (4:39)

Credits

En Vogue (Main Performer), Marlon McClain (Guitar), Marlon McClain (Producer), Marlon McClain (Engineer), Marlon McClain (Drum Programming), Marlon McClain (Keyboard Programming), Steve Counter (Engineer), Mark Elliot (Associate Producer), Denzil Foster (Producer), Denzil Foster (Executive Producer), Denzil Foster (Drum Programming), Denzil Foster (Keyboard Programming), Wayne Jackson (Associate Producer), Ken Kessie (Mixing), Thomas McElroy (Producer), Thomas McElroy (Executive Producer), Thomas McElroy (Drum Programming), Thomas McElroy (Keyboard Programming), Sauce (Drum Programming), Alli (Art Direction), Alli (Design), James Earley (Guitar (Electric)), Steve Genewick (Engineer), Mike Bozzi (Assistant Engineer), Chuck Amos (Hair Stylist), Tony Woods (Rap), Markus Klinko (Photography), Robert Page (Rap)
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Masterpiece Theatre
Studio album by En Vogue
Released May 23, 2000
Recorded September 1999—March 2000
Genre R&B
Label Elektra
Producer Denzil Foster & Thomas McElroy
Professional reviews
En Vogue chronology
EV3
(1997)
Masterpiece Theatre
(2000)
The Gift of Christmas
(2002)

Masterpiece Theatre is a studio album by American R&B group En Vogue, released in 2000 by Elektra Records. They took famous classical music ("masterpieces") and put their own R&B flavor on it. It was originally set to be titled "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue".

The first single was "Riddle", remixed for radio by Stargate. "Riddle" was set to be followed by a mini-film containing the En Vogue Love Suite ("Love U Crazay" "Sad But True" "Love Won't Take Me Out" "Que Sera, Sera") but plans fell through. Plans for the second single "Love U Crazy" were scrapped after weak commercial performance of the album in the US.

The album was originally set to include a track called "I Love You More" (also in a remixed form), which were leaked on the initial advance version of the album. However, due to uncleared sample of "The Godfather" theme, the two versions of the songs were replaced by the addition of "Love U Crazy". Another song "It's On" was also on the album sampler, but was removed from the final album for unknown reasons.

Track listing

  1. "Riddle"
  2. "No No No (Can't Come Back)"
  3. "Falling in Love"
  4. "Suite Intro"
  5. "Love U Crazay"
  6. "Sad But True"
  7. "Love Won't Take Me Out"
  8. "Whatever Will Be Will Be"
  9. "Suite Outro"
  10. "Beat of Love"
  11. "Latin Soul"
  12. "Work It Out"
  13. "Those Dogs"
  14. "Number One Man"
  15. "Riddle (Red Zone Remix)"

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