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| Artist: Toni Braxton
Label: Arista
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
Buy Used: $0.43
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Rating:  303 reviews
Sales Rank: 74301
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 26069
UPC: 730082606929
EAN: 0730082606929
ASIN: B00004R7SN
Release Date: April 25, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
... December 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was reluctant to bring this out of the vaults, because I remember how everybody said this album was terrible. I guess I took their opinion as mine and just forgot about this album. But when I finally started listening, I was pleasantly surprised. No, this is not another Secrets or even her debut album, but it is still very good. She manages to keep her old style while still incorporating new ideas. There are a few minor missteps, and "The Art of Love" should have just been left off completely, but the rest is quality. It makes me sad that she went from this to More Than A Woman...
The voice speaks for itself. . . . September 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like a great many Black female R&B vocalists these days, Toni Braxton can't seem to keep enough of her clothes on (see Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson). Braxton is now approaching 40 and it's almost as if she--like Carey and Jackson--doesn't trust her voice or music enough to stand on its own without that tired marketing gimmick of skin-baring (one of the sexiest photos of her was the back cover of her debut album, a stunning shot of her tastefully dressed in a simple yet elegant black mini-dress, her hair stylishly cropped) . Fortunately, "The Heat" proves that Braxton can still sizzle if given the right material. To be sure, the CD has more than its share of filler material, but when Braxton is on, she's great! For me, the highlights included the title track, the feisty uptempo "He wasn't man enough," the Babyface-inspired "Fairytale," "Just be a Man About It" (in which she offers an indignant call-and-response to a wayward Dr. Dre) and the tongue-twisting "Maybe." I also loved the pulsating groove of "The Art of Love," a song that is about as steamy and sexy as an instrumental can get. I hope Braxton is around for the long haul, but someone should tell her (maybe her husband?) that there is nothing more sexy than the imagination--something you can't literally see. She should leave the striptease act to non-singers like Britney Spears. Braxton's voice is more than enough to satisfy. . . .
 BAD March 23, 2006
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
SHE ISN'T A GOOD VOCALIST, THIS CD IS A WASTE OF MONEY, BUY INTO SOMEONE GOOD. I'D RATHER BUY COUNTRY WESTERN MUSIC.
 The heat that grows on you October 27, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"The Heat" is Toni's best album, with more mid-tempo songs than her last one, it's my favorite album. There's people who thinks that Hip-Hop doesn't go with her, but everyone has the freedom of taste new sounds, and this was her case.
This 3rd album was Toni's transition into a Gangsta R&B, saddly many fans and Toni herself said that it isn't her style... Anyway, if I liked it that's my business, don't you think so?
The lead single "He Wasn't Man Enough" (produced by Rodney Jerkins) was a hit; saddly the other singles only had moderate success. "Gimme some" and "Speaking in tongues" deserved to be commercially released.
HE WASN'T MAN ENOUGH +5/5
The song that started it all, I remember it when I was on the 7th grade
THE HEAT 4/5
The main title of the album, it's cool
SPANISH GUITAR +5/5
...Me gustar?a tenerte en mis brazos amor...
JUST BE A MAN ABOUT IT Featuring Dr. Dre +5/5
I love it. It grew on me
GIMME SOME Featuring Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC +5/5
Featuring some rhymes by her, the song is one of the bests of the album
I'M STILL BREATHING 5/5
It grows on you, beautiful lyrics courtesy of Dianne Warren
FAIRY TALE +5/5
That's another highlight. Grew on me
THE ART OF LOVE +5/5
A semi-instrumental track, like Madonna's "Justify my love"
SPEAKING IN TONGUES +5/5
Toni wrote this one. The best song of the album, to me her best to date. This song serves to do a lot of things (With your girl/boy or alone).
MAYBE +5/5
Amazing song, it grew on me too
YOU'VE BEEN WRONG 3/5
This song is weak, a bit odious too
NEVER JUST FOR A RING 4/5
Simply good
A Warm Album August 27, 2005
Toni's third album is a rich one full of good songs and for the first time she mixed both trademarks ballads and uptempo songs, more stright forward sexy then previous album "Secrets" but goes one step forward and explored other styles. "The Heat" is both self secure and sensual. A great list of songwriters also contributed to the track list here. Jerkins produced "He Wasn't Man Enough" was the big hit here, a catchy uptempo song about the a bad man. That song had something we couldn't expect from her some years before. "Heat" is a sexy midtempo soul number while Diane Warren penned "Spanish Guitar" is a good ballad. "Gimme some" is a catchy uptempo song co-written by Babycace that also wrote the song "Fairy Tale" that is more chilled down. Austin's "Just be Man about it" which also was single released follows the trend of quality soul here. While the heat may not exactly be groundbreaking it's defenitely a good soul album that mixes alot of diffrent kind of songs into one great concept. Highly recommended. Soon a new album out called "Libra"
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