Track Listing 1. What's a Man to Do? 2. Won't Change - (featuring Gemini) 3. Interlude 4. We Still 5. Wanna Know 6. Diggin Your Style - (featuring Baby Bash) 7. Don't Wanna Try 8. Just the Way - (featuring Gemini) 9. Be Home Soon 10. Drinks on Me - (featuring Baby Bash) 11. From the Outside Lookin In - (featuring Russell Lee/Max Minelli) 12. Ya No es Igual
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Baby Bash, Gemini, Max Minelli, Russell Lee | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Frankie J (vocals); Gemini, Baby Bash, Russell Lee, Max Minelli (rap vocals); Happy Perez (various instruments); Andy Quinn (guitar); Don Quinn (bass); Ritz Murphy, F. Bautista (background vocals). Producers: Jaime Galvez, Frankie J, Happy Perez. Although Frankie J's WHAT'S A MAN TO DO is pushed along by hip-hop-derived rhythms and production, he's an old-school soul singer at heart. That's not to say that there are homages to Marvin Gaye or Al Green here, simply that J eschews the hyper-melismatic approach of many lesser contemporaries in favor of a smooth, understated style that values hooks and melody over vocal showboating. Frankie's first and foremost a romantic balladeer, and while there are a couple of percolating tracks, this is mostly an album of slow jams built on and for intimacy. J knows just how much to put into his performances without overextending himself, and he remains a believable seductor throughout. Things end on a nice touch with the Spanish-language, piano-based ballad "Ya No Es Igual," hinting at the possibilities of a Latin-pop crossover.
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