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    Akon - Freedom

    12/02/2008 | Umvd Labels 

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    Lyrics from Freedom

  • Troublemaker
  • Keep You Much Longer
  • Beautiful
  • Right Now (Na Na Na)

    • Videos from Freedom

    All Music Guide Review

    Akon spun off two number one pop hits and one number two from Konvicted, so he couldn't be blamed for working the same tricks on his third album, yet Freedom is a major change of pace -- the kind of drastic switch-up that normally happens after reaching a creative and commercial dead-end. Hip-hop and R&B are all but scrapped entirely. The set instead is rooted in the gleaming synthesizers and spring-loaded dance beats of Euro-pop. (That slamming jail-cell door trademark, deployed as much as ever, doesn't quite have the same alarming effect.) Akon sounds more comfortable than expected, and he reduces the lechery in favor of longing ("I wanna make up right now") and awe ("When I see you, I run out of words to say"). At times, the tensionless backdrops don't inspire Akon to do much with his pen; the chorus of "Beautiful" is basically "You're so beautiful, so damn beautiful," while falling for a stripper in "Against the Grain" is conveyed with "The way she drop down won't allow me to close my drawers." Even so, there's much more charm here than expected. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

    Freedom Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Right Now (Na Na Na)
  • 4:00
  • Sound Clip for Right Now (Na Na Na) from Freedom

  • Lyrics for Right Now (Na Na Na) from Freedom

  • 2
  • Beautiful
  • 5:12
  • Sound Clip for Beautiful from Freedom

  • Lyrics for Beautiful from Freedom

  • 3
  • Keep You Much Longer
  • 4:20
  • Sound Clip for Keep You Much Longer from Freedom

  • Lyrics for Keep You Much Longer from Freedom

  • 4
  • Troublemaker
  • 3:57
  • Sound Clip for Troublemaker from Freedom

  • Lyrics for Troublemaker from Freedom

  • 5
  • We Don't Care
  • 4:16
  • Sound Clip for We Don't Care from Freedom


  • 6
  • I'm So Paid
  • 4:23
  • Sound Clip for I'm So Paid from Freedom


  • 7
  • Holla Holla
  • 3:00
  • Sound Clip for Holla Holla from Freedom


  • 8
  • Against the Grain
  • 4:04
  • Sound Clip for Against the Grain from Freedom


  • 9
  • Be with You
  • 3:51
  • Sound Clip for Be with You from Freedom


  • 10
  • Sunny Day
  • 5:12
  • Sound Clip for Sunny Day from Freedom


  • 11
  • Birthmark
  • 4:23
  • Sound Clip for Birthmark from Freedom


  • 12
  • Over the Edge
  • 4:26
  • Sound Clip for Over the Edge from Freedom


  • 13
  • Freedom
  • 6:45
  • Sound Clip for Freedom from Freedom


  • 14
  • (CD-Rom Track)

    • Freedom Notes

    Upfront/Konvict/SRC/ Universal Motown multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer, Akon burst out of the starting gates with the winningly melodic and compulsively danceable single "Right Now (Na Na Na)." The song is sparking up the charts in a record-setting pace that's familiar to Akon's millions of fans worldwide.

    "Right Now (Na Na Na)" is the lead track from Akon's 3rd upcoming album FREEDOM. The infectious song is the #1 Most Added at Rhythm Crossover radio stations in its first week of release. The digital single immediately moves into the top 10 of iTunes as the most-downloaded Top Songs. FREEDOM will feature collaborations with Hip-Hop's "man of the hour" Lil Wayne ("I'm So Paid") and Akon's platinum artist T-Pain ("Holla Holla").

    Akon broke out on the music scene in 2004 with the platinum album TROUBLE that featured singles, "Locked Up" and "Lonely." He returned in 2006 with the triple-platinumcertified KONVICTED CD. The Senegalese native broke chart history in 2007 as the first artist to simultaneously hold the #1 ("I Wanna Love You") and #2 ("Smack "That") positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart twice. He went on to become Billboard Magazine's Top Artist of 2007, the #2 Hot 100 Producer of the Year, and #2 Hot 100 Songwriter of the year.

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