10.25.03:
Producers: The Underdogs
Writers: Mischke, H. Mason, D. Thomas, the Underdogs
Publisher: Various
Beat Club/Interscope (CD promo)
While 20-year-old Timbaland signee Kiley Dean's first single "Make
Me a Song" was generic by today's hip-pop standards, follow-up
"Who will I run to?" demonstrates vocal prowess that should make
Christina Aguilera shake in her strap-on stilettos. It's not
often that the urban camp produces a delicious power ballad, but then
again, it's unusual among today's crop of R&B bathing beauties to
possess chops capable of tearing into such challenging material.
"Run is absolutely lovely and simply produced, with the kind of bridge
that makes you want to wave your hands to the sky and sing right along.
todays kids don't know what they're missing-but with radio's potent
support, they will, making Arkansas native Dean a deserving star in the
process-CT