In Unpredictable, other R&B is dismissed as "mundane" and "the same old thing". Anyone who read the 38-year-old describe himself as "R&B's saviour" in the Guardian on Monday should note that this was one of his more unassuming pronouncements. Sorry: including hiring a fairground barker, who interrupts proceedings with a cry of: "All aboard the spontaneous express! Next stop the g-spot!" By the time he arrives, his services are virtually superfluous, such is the degree of self-aggrandisement emanating from Foxx. On the opening title track he does everything to draw attention to his alleged musical genius short of hiring a fairground barker. This advice doesn't seem to have reached Foxx, a man who, according to the sleevenotes of second album Unpredictable, counts Helen Mirren among his "Ride Or Die Homies". You would be well advised to keep things restrained and discreet, thus enabling you to make a quiet and dignified exit should everything go wrong. After all, you don't want to join those would-be polymaths who suffered ignominious failure in the charts - there were few takers for Minnie Driver's singer-songwritery album Everything I've Got in My Pocket, Russell Crowe's pub-rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts or, indeed, Foxx's debut album, 1994's Peep This. Lesser men might have attempted a low-key transition from Oscar-winning actor to R&B vocalist. Y ou could never accuse Jamie Foxx of hiding his light under a bushel.
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