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Ashanti CD proves a guilty pleasure
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As a singer-songwriter, Ashanti has all the substance of a vat of
cotton candy. Her voice is pleasing yet thin, her music often relies
on R&B hooks from the past, and her songs are lyrically weak (if she
couldn't use the word baby, many of her songs might be
instrumentals).
But despite all its fluff, cotton candy...
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