Amerie's one of those artists who keeps doing just well enough to get another record released, but never quite well enough for the masses to take notice. The last time we heard her--on the storming "1 Thing"--we said the exact same thing we're saying now: "She made the record Beyoncé should have made."
Amerie kicks off the campaign behind her third album Because I Love It with yet another club banger in "Take Control." Riding a dirty little guitar lick and insistent percussion, Amerie (with co-production assistance from Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo) doesn't break new ground here, but she offers a top shelf ass-shaker and a sad reminder that if she could've found (or written) 3 or 4 tracks of this caliber every album, she'd have knocked Beyoncé, her alter ego Sasha and Daddy Knowles right off the tip of everyone's tongues by now.
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