Album Review: Tomorrow by Sean Kingston

The good news is that with Tomorrow, the Jamaican-born, Miami-raised singer Sean Kingston has matured from the precocious 16-year-old found on his debut into the much cooler and natural 19-year-old found here. Musically, he hasn't evolved a lick. This means the highly polished, Island-flavored, hip-hop-influenced R&B of his debut is back, although this time the gimmicky ideas come off as more clever than cute.

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Is Sean Kingston the new Haddaway? With his mindless Euro-dance-inflected FM reggae club bangers, it's easy to imagine the next generation's A Night At The Roxbury dudes accosting women on the dance floor to the incessant thump of Kingston's latest hit, Fire Burning. [rssbreak] And, like Haddaway asking that timeless question What Is Love? in 93, 19-year-old Kingston spends much of his sophomore album considering the same conundrum over 808s and neon synths, Auto-Tune cranked to 11. Face Drop sees Kingston's ex-girl getting her comeuppance for underestimating him, while Why U Wanna Go finds the singer bartering promises of Gucci for his woman's affection.

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The teen behind 2007’s ”Beautiful Girls” has already scored another hit with ”Fire Burning.” Kingston spends the rest of his sophomore album, Tomorrow, further exploring that tune’s vaguely reggae-flavored brand of sub-T-Pain electro-pop. Though he’s got plenty of hooks, personality is in much shorter supply. No self-respecting artist should have to rely on appearances from the likes of Good Charlotte and Wyclef Jean to break up the monotony of his own performances.

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