Album Review: Jamie Foxx - Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses

Is there an easier target than an actor cum musician?

To be fair, Jamie Foxx has proven robustly skilled with four albums behind him so this fifth — a semi-autobiographical Hollywood star’s break-up concept — is slickly produced and demands little to get into. When he’s funking, he’s funking good (Tease, Baby’s In Love) and In Love By Now is as sympathetic as this gets, but mostly it’s unsexy gurning trying to rival Justin Timberlake and Kanye West’s most cringeworthy spunkings. Hollywood’s fakeness comes across as the musical equivalent of TV’s The Bachelor.