Clothes Drop

2005 studio album by Shaggy
Clothes Drop
Studio album by
Shaggy
ReleasedSeptember 2, 2005
Length61:29
LabelGeffen
Producer
  • Armando Colon
  • Sly Dunbar
  • Michael Fletcher
  • Anthony Kelly
  • Tony "CD" Kelly
  • Robert Livingston
  • Shaun Pizzonia
  • Robbie Shakespeare
  • Dwayne Shippy
  • Soulshock & Karlin
  • Scott Storch
  • will.i.am
  • ZLink
Shaggy chronology
Lucky Day
(2002) 		Clothes Drop
(2005) 		Intoxication
(2007)
Singles from Clothes Drop
  1. "Wild 2Nite"
    Released: September 5, 2005
  2. "Ultimatum"
    Released: 2005

Clothes Drop is the seventh studio album released by Jamaican singer Shaggy. It was released by Geffen Records on September 2, 2005. When the album was released promotionally in 2004, it was debated that the album would not be commercially released. However, over a year later, the album was officially released.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(61/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Billboard(favorable)[3]
Blender[4]
Entertainment WeeklyC−[5]
The Guardian[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
Vibe[8]

Clothes Drop garnered positive reviews from music critics who praised the diverse avenues of dancehall and pop music the tracks go through. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 61, based on 7 reviews.[1]

Rob Kenner of Vibe gave praise to Shaggy's dynamic vocal delivery and his taste for old-school dancehall in romantic dance tracks and depth-filled social tunes, saying that "Clothesdrop seamlessly blends Shaggy's sharpest pop sensibilities with his (much slept-on) roughneck pedigree."[8] Rolling Stone's Christian Hoard felt the album carried an amalgam of tracks ranging from hip-hop-styled and club-oriented to mind-numbingly generic and a bit preachy, saying that "[T]he entire album has a mixed-bag feel, but "Would You Be" shows that his gift for winsome melody and R&B clarity is mostly intact."[7] Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian said that "Clothes Drop is a typically canny and diverse selection: bona fide dancehall cuts interspersed with hooky pop."[6] Entertainment Weekly's David Browne said that despite tracks like "Repent" that better display his talents, he found Shaggy trying to regain his hit-making glory days with middling results, concluding that "Maybe he should lose the monotonous, low-rent beats and banal-hook girls (and boys)."[5] Writing for Blender, Jon Caramanica heavily criticized Shaggy for attempting to showcase his dancehall credentials with a grating voice and without a featured artist to work lyrics off like Rikrok, saying that "Instead, there’s a Black Eyed Pea (“Shut Up and Dance”), a Pussycat Doll (“Supa Hypnotic”) and the palpable sweat of a man trying to figure out what he’s good at, a decade too late."[4]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Clothes Drop"
  • Dunbar
  • Shakespeare
  • ZLink
4:04
2."Ready fi di Ride"
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Maurice Gregory
  • Anthony Kelly
Kelly3:34
3."Broadway"
Shippy2:35
4."Wild 2nite" (featuring Olivia)
  • Colon
  • Shaun "Sting Int'l" Pizzonia
3:29
5."Back in the Days" (featuring Rayvon)
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Michael Fletcher
Fletcher4:00
6."Supa Hypnotic" (featuring Nicole Scherzinger)Soulshock & Karlin3:35
7."Would You Be" (featuring Brian "Gold" Thompson)
  • Burrell
  • Christopher Birch
  • Colon
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
  • K.B. Robinson
  • Thompson
  • Colon
  • Pizzonia
4:16
8."Stand Up" (featuring Natasha Watkins)
Livingston3:34
9."Repent"
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Gregory
  • Tony "CD" Kelly
  • Pizzonia
Kelly3:42
10."Luv Me Up"
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Gregory
  • Kelly
  • Pizzonia
Kelly3:31
11."Ahead in Life"
  • Burrell
  • Colon
  • Ducent
  • Kelly
Colon3:16
12."Ultimatum"
  • Burrell
  • Colon
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
  • Pizzonia
  • Colon
3:33
13."Shut Up & Dance" (featuring will.i.am)
will.i.am3:24
14."Don't Ask Her That" (featuring Nicole Scherzinger)
  • Storch
  • Thom Panunzio[a]
4:25
15."Road Block" (featuring Rikrok)
Pizzonia3:32
16."Gone with Angels"
  • Burrell
  • Colon
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
  • Pizzonia
  • Fletcher
4:05
17."Letter to My Kids"
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
  • Pizzonia
  • Fletcher
2:54
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
18."Hold Me"
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
Pizzonia3:03
UK bonus tracks[9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
18."Goodie Goodie""
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
Pizzonia3:20
19."Sexy Gyal Whind"
  • Burrell
  • Ducent
  • Pizzonia
Pizzonia3:03

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies additional producer

Sample credits

  • "Broadway" contains a sample of "Broader than Broadway" as written by Barrington Levy.
  • "Stand Up" contains a sample of "Stop That Man" as written by Derrick Harriott.
  • "Shut Up & Dance" contains elements of "Genius of Love" as written by Tom Tom Club.

Credits and personnel

Credits lifted from the liner notes of Clothes Drop.[10]

  • C. Duck Anderson – Background Vocals
  • Alex Cantrall – Producer, Musician
  • Chico Chin – Musician
  • Armando Colon – Producer, Engineer, Musician
  • Heather Cummings – Background Vocals
  • J. Curtis – Guitar
  • Sly Dunbar – Producer, Musician
  • Cliff Feiman – Production Coordination
  • Neal Ferrazzani – Assistant
  • Michael Fletcher – Producer, Musician
  • Chris Gehringer – Mastering
  • Brian Gold – Background Vocals
  • Tony Gold – Background Vocals
  • Tony Green – Musician
  • Maurice Gregory – Musician
  • Damion Hall – Engineer
  • Nellee Hooper – Vocal Producer
  • Kameron Houff – Engineer
  • A. Kelly – Musician
  • Tony Kelly – Producer, Engineer, Musician, Revision
  • Martin Kierszenbaum – Keyboards, A&R
  • Robert Livingston – Producer, Overdubs, Executive Producer
  • Robert Lyn – Musician
  • Thom Panunzio – Producer, Mixing
  • Shaun "Sting Int'l" Pizzonia – Producer, Engineer, Overdubs, Executive Producer, Mixing, Musician
  • Claude "Weakhand" Reynolds – Mixing
  • J. Peter Robinson – Art Direction
  • Robbie Shakespeare – Producer, Musician
  • Fabian Smith – Keyboard Overdubs
  • Soulshock – Producer, Engineer, Musician
  • Scott Storch – Producer
  • Lincoln Thomas – Guitar
  • Gita Williams – Product Manager

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Clothes Drop
Chart (2005) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[11] 61
French Albums (SNEP)[12] 70
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13] 62
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[14] 31
US Reggae Albums (Billboard)[15] 2
US Billboard 200[16] 144

References

  1. ^ a b "Reviews for Clothes Drop by Shaggy". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  2. ^ Jeffries, David. "Clothes Drop - Shaggy". AllMusic. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
  3. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (September 24, 2005). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ a b Caramanica, Jon. "Shaggy - Clothesdrop". Blender. Alpha Media Group. Archived from the original on November 30, 2005. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Browne, David (September 16, 2005). "Clothesdrop". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  6. ^ a b Lynskey, Dorian (September 16, 2005). "Shaggy: Clothes Drop". The Guardian. London. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  7. ^ a b Hoard, Christian (September 22, 2005). "Shaggy: Clothes Drop". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  8. ^ a b Kenner, Rob (November 2005). "Shaggy 'Clothesdrop'". Vibe. 13. Vibe Media: 147–148. ISSN 1070-4701. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  9. ^ "Clothes Drop by Shaggy on Amazon Music - Amazon.co.uk". Amazon UK.
  10. ^ Clothes Drop (booklet). Shaggy. Geffen Records. 2005.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  11. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Shaggy – Clothes Drop" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  12. ^ "Lescharts.com – Shaggy – Clothes Drop". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  13. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Shaggy – Clothes Drop" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  14. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Shaggy – Clothes Drop". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  15. ^ "Shaggy Chart History (Reggae Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
  16. ^ "Shaggy Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
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