Ever check out what other folks think of an album on Amazon.com? I have just read reviews of J.Lo's Rebirth, and they left me in stitches. What a good laugh. I'm especially fond of the one that said "two words: hot garbage". Better yet, the one that retitled it "Still Born". She truly seems to lack the voice needed to pull of what I heard in the sound clips.
[Edited 3/1/05 22:01pm]

I always do.
sometimes there's honest reviews of the products, and sometimes it's just plainly an opportunity to bash someone.

I often write out reviews for amazon

She's a has-been, March 2, 2005
Reviewer: Brandon L. Harlow (Colonial Heights, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This broad is so ovah it isn't even funny anymore! She started out with a bright acting acreer ahead of her. Selena & Out of Sight were fantastic and even her first CD, On The 6, was spectacular.

Then something went horribly wrong. She became a media ho.

Next thing we know she is running from gun toting rappers and selling perfumes that smell like someone urinated a bottle of Cuervo Gold.

Then she dated perpetual loser/has-been Ben Affleck and sand about still being "from the block" eventhough she has millions dollars and is better than those people.

This CD is a mammoth failure both artistically and commercially. The girl is OVAH!

VoicesCarry said:

I can only hope you're right. I'd like nothing more than to see Britney "ovah" too.

shit. u don't have to read amazon.com to find about that j.lo's new cd is a hot mess. here's the review in today's washington post:

Jennifer Lopez wants to be a pop star so badly it seems almost impolite to deny her. But four albums into an inexplicably lengthy musical career, and despite access to the highest caliber producers, samples and vocal technology, she has yet to make a great record -- or even a particularly good one

Lopez's albums have always suffered from her pronounced lack of naturalism or, at the very least, her inability to fake it.

"Rebirth," the latest campaign in her forced march toward musical immortality, isn't performed as much as assembled. Its strained, stitched-together feel is most evident in its lead single, the now-ubiquitous "Get Right." A chaotic conflation of Chi-Lites-reminiscent horn samples, tinny vocals and a guest rap servicing a circular, two-note groove, "Get Right" owes such a great debt to "Crazy in Love" that Beyonce might want to call her lawyers.

The disc has its moments: The bustling, percussion-heavy "Whatever You Wanna Do" is pretty irresistible; "Cherry Pie" is a vaguely funky, sort-of-rock track that lightly evokes "Purple Rain." Lopez is a game, likable presence throughout, but even the moderate funkiness necessary for the disc's mostly middle-of-the-road R&B tracks doesn't seem to come easy to her, and her voice is ill-suited to the maudlin ballads that clog the album's midsection. The worst, "I, Love," is a pledge of romantic fealty ("Love you / Like a queen would love her king") that anyone who recalls "Dear Ben," 2002's infamous ode to Affleck, will find scarily familiar.

I used to like writing those reviews but that's before everyone got into it and there would be like 1000 reviews for something. I like when people actually like a full review better than just two words saying it sucks or rocks. What's even worse is the fact that must people usually don't even have or have listened to (read, saw, etc.) the product in question.

I always read reviews on amazon. I think it's cool to see what "regular" people think of albums, as well as music crtitics but sometimes the reviews are stupid. The words will be spelled wrong and the letters are in cap letters. Still a cool concept though.