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Herald rating: * *
Review: Russell Baillie
As the cover sticker says: "Mr Boombastic is back." Which means that dancehall reggae's most commercial voice, ex-US Marine Orville Richard Burrell, is applying his lugubrious baritone bark to yet another album which will feature a couple of blatantly sampled insta-hits.
In this case that's Dance and Shout, which is the young Michael Jackson's Shake Your Body given the raggamuffin-meets-R&B treatment by producers Jam & Lewis, closely followed by Angel (Angel in the Morning in a former life).
Elsewhere, Shaggy spends most of the 14 tracks having ongoing discussions with the "laydeez" about living up to the first syllable of his name and he gets to play gangster, badly, on Why Me Lord? Nice enough, in a poolside'n'cocktail kind of way, but also rather thin-sounding and uninspired.
<i>Shaggy:</i> Hot Shot
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