Life
This is full-frontal Ginuwine.The Lifehas 15 crisp and  clean tracks, three ballads, two mercifully brief interludes, and,  praises be, onlyoneguest appearance. With the exception of one  or two tracks, the album's subject matter crystallizes Ginuwine's shiny  digitized persona: the iced-out, ghetto-down-yet-sensitive, pretty-boy  player with a pocket full of money. As a flesh-and-blood artist,  Ginuwine is a reasonably talented, trend-conscious love man with the  ability to turn fairly ordinary songs about two-way pagers, g-strings,  and the myriad pressures of being a hard-working sex symbol intoBillboard-bound hits. Even though he focuses on adult topics,  Ginuwine's songs seem to center around the type of fantasies  15-year-olds indulge in while watching MTV on a school night. Five of these  tracks are up-tempo rump shakers and 10 are turbo-charged,  up-on-the-downstroke slow jams. The party songs are cluttered with drum and bass,  whistles, mediocre Spanish guitars, and other gimmicks that merely  distract from Ginuwine's capable midrange vocals. Stick with the slick  slow jams, and he might just get your heart racing.--Rebecca  Levine