The opening cut, Got to Get Up, is a fresh, buoyant, and tasty an example of current black synthdance music as you'll hear anywhere.

I reckon it's pretty astonishing that none of us did go off the rails. There really was no telling how any of us would deal with the pressures and the fame.

Down there on the stage Furtado twizzled her shiny jet ringlets around her tiny digits and wobbled off stage in her stilty white stilettos.

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