Fantasy Ride

Fantasy Ride is the third studio album by American singer Ciara, first released on May 3, 2009, by Jive Records, LaFace Records and Sony Music Entertainment. The album was recorded between 2007 and 2009. Ciara was executive producer on the album along with co-executive Mark Pitts and, Ciara worked with several record producers, including Blac Elvis, Benny Blanco, Blade, Jasper Cameron, The Clutch, Darkchild, Danja, Dr. Luke, Jason Nevins, Jim Beanz, Los da Maestro, Ne-Yo, Osinachi Nwaneri, Polow da Don, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain. The album featured several guest appearances from several different R&B and hip hop artists like Timberlake, Ludacris, Chris Brown, Young Jeezy, The-Dream, Missy Elliott. Musically, Fantasy Ride is a departure from Ciara's crunk sound, which was on her first two albums and features a mixture of R&B, hip hop and dance music in the album's overall sound. For the album, Ciara created a super hero character called "Super C" who "is a character that people will learn more about on this record. That is my alter ego. Super C doesn't hold back. She is definitely aggressive. She goes hard. Super C can do some magical and funky things. She works hard. She dances to the 10th power. She does everything to the 10th power."
Critical reception
Fantasy Ride received mixed reviews from music critics.
Track listing
Standard editions
Deluxe editions
EP version
Notes
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Personnel
Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica - audio mixing , additional production , recording engineer
Chris Athens - mastering
Jim Beanz - vocal arrangement
Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin - drums, keyboards, programming, producer
Derek Blanks - photographer
Brandon "Blade" Bowles - music producer
Chris Brown - vocals, vocal arrangement
Bernard Chang - illustrations
Aubry Delane - assistant recording engineer
Carlos "Los da Mystro" McKinney - music producer
Mike Donaldson - recording engineer, audio mixing
Mike Elizondo - instrumentation
Paul Foley - recording engineer
Yolonda Frederick - make-up
Serban Ghenea - audio mixing
Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald - guitar, drums, keyboards, music programming, production
Tatiana Gottwald - assistant recording engineer
Matty Green - audio mixing assistant
Mariel Haenn - stylist
Christy Hall - production assistant
John Hanes - additional Pro-Tools recording engineer
Kuk Harrell - vocal producer , vocal recording engineer , mixing technician
Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins - music producer, audio mixing, vocal producer
Rob Knox - instrumentation
Giancarlo Lino - audio mixing assistant
Carlton Lynn - recording engineer
Andile Majozi - assistant
Terius "The-Dream" Nash - songwriter , co-producer , vocals , vocal arrangement
Candice Nelson - songwriter, vocal arrangement
Jared Newcomb - audio mixing assistant
Osinachi Nwaneri - music producer
Carlos Oyanedel - audio mixing assistant
Dave Pensado - audio mixing
Mark Pitts - executive producer
Jamal "Polow da Don" Jones - producer
Ramon Rivas - assistant recording engineer
Tim Roberts - assistant Pro-Tools recording engineer
Todd Rubenstein - assistant recording engineer
Becky Scott - production coordination
Kelly "Becky 4 Real" Sheehan - instrumental recording engineer
Vanessa Silberma - production coordination
Gary "G" Silver - production coordination
Spike Stent - audio mixing
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart - music producer
Phil Tan - audio mixing
Faheem "T-Pain" Najm - producer
Brian "B Luv" Thomas - instrumental recording engineer
Pat Thrall - instrumental recording engineer
Randy Urbanski - audio mixing assistant
Courtney Walter - art direction, design
Elvis "Blac Elvis" Williams - producer
Emily Wright - recording engineer, vocal editing
Kiyah Wright - hair stylist
Andrew Wuepper - audio mixing assistant
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
2009 albums
Ciara albums
Hip hop albums
Dance albums
R&B albums