Kelly Rowland: Here I Am – review
Between Kelly Rowland’s profile-raising stint as an X Factor judge and the ubiquity of her autumn hit Down for Whatever, this album should have been packed with enough “plot” to send it straight to the top 10. Yet it stalled at 43 (though it reached No 3 in the US), and that is regrettable; it’s a confident, forthright collection that puts paid to the perception that she is Beyoncé Knowles’s former sidekick. Though not the most characterful singer, Rowland compensates by choosing expressive, memorable songs (including the lewdly pulsing All of the Night, which contains the head-scratching line: “It’s going ...
