Music Review: Omarion- “Ollusion”

Omarion is back with a new album “Ollusion”. Following the release of his, “21″ album which featured the infectious “Entourage” and “Ice Box” and his collab album with Bow Wow “Face Off”, Omarion comes with his first album to sport a Parental Advisory sticker. After seeing the videos and hearing the singles, I was kind of apprehensive about this one. However, the slow numbers definitely makes up for the cheesyness like “I Get It In”. Check out our track by track review after the jump.

“I Get It In” ft. Gucci Mane : This was the first single. Yep, the one with that cheesy video that proved Omarion could still dance…I guess. Not really feeling this one. earStyle.NET rating :

“Last Night (Kinkos)”: I am going to give him a thumbs up for this slow number. Very repetitive, but the song does have “Kinkos” in the title…Copy machine? Over and over…creative I guess lol. earStyle.NET rating:

“Hoodie” ft. Jay Rock: Don’t like this at all. earStyle.NET rating: 

“What Do You Say”: A nice little slow number about him offering a girl a chance to get to know him better. THe beat is kind of lullaby-ish, but with a little umph to it. “Lets talk about the birds and the bees and being grown/What Do You Say?” earStyle.NET rating:

“Speedin’”: Omarion’s doing 90 on the highway to make love the way it used to be. Probably one of my favorite songs on this album. Omarion sings over a Piano, electric guitar, and snare drum with urgency as he tries to recover what he had. Check out the MJ growl at the end lol.  earStyle.NET rating:

“Temptation”: Here’s a track about those girls who breaks up that happy ending. Those “Kiss and never tell girls” as Omarion calls them. “Temptation” calls Omarion on this slow number. Very nice and smooth track. Nice ending to the track to. earStyle.NET rating:

“Sweet Hangover”: I feel like I’ve heard this track before, maybe it’s just because T-Pain produced it so it has that whole feel to it like “Buy U A Drink”.  Dude even sounds like T-Pain on this track…Autotune? I guess. It’s not a bad track though. earStyle.NET rating:

“Thee Interlude” ft. Marques Houston: Very short interlude with cousins/brothers/whatever they are Marques Houston and Omarion. While it’s a cool interlude it just seems very random. This is already a very short album. earStyle.NET rating:

“Wet”: Hot song! Really don’t have to go into much details about this one. Use your imagination with the title folks lol. This one is the Baby maker of the album. earStyle.NET rating:

“I Think My Girl Is Bi”: Maddscientist really came through on this track. If he wanted to release an uptempo, it definitely should have been this track. One of my favorites on the album, and my favorite since it leaked a year ago. The chorus is very catchy and the beat is infectious. “Sometimes she can’t keep her pretty hands off me/But when shes with her girlfriend she don’t even speak/She can spot a pretty girl faster than I can/Tells me that she loves me but I’m trying to understand” earStyle.NET rating:

“Code Red”: Here’s a song about those girls you don’t bring home to Momma.  Those very freaky girls. That even uses some lyrics from Gucci Mane’s “Freaky Girl”. Awful way to close the album in my opinion. Therefore….earStyle.NET rating:

Overall, the album was not as bad as I thought it would be, but it’s a far cry from Great. There’s a few tracks that definitely made the iPod. With some tweaking and a bit more creativity Omarion can definitely pop out another solid album sometime in the future. Maybe he needs to wait for some of these musical fads to die down first, before he gets too caught up in them like he did on this album.

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