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Toni Braxton
Snowflakes
Arista, 2001
Aside from tourism, Jamaica's two growth industries are coffin-building and training guard dogs. This doesn't worry R&B singer Toni Braxton much. In "Christmas in Jamaica" she's looking forward to staying in bed all afternoon and making out to reggae tunes - not a bad way to go. For Braxton, Christmas is all about s-e-x, meaning that her album isn't for the fiercely independent, fanatically religious or terminally lonely. In the unlikely event the kids leave you alone long enough to make do in front of the fireplace, though, Snowflakes won't distract you from business at hand - Braxton is sultry throughout. The disc's production is ultra smooth, and the only quandary comes on "Santa Please ...," when the singer wonders whether Saint Nick will turn her sleigh into a cab so that she can see - you guessed it - her baby. That's one way to shake the Christmas Eve blahs. For the rest of us, there are always sleeping pills.
C. Bottomley
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