

Here’s Ciara at her album release party here in NYC, at right with Ludacris. Here’s a piece on “Fantasy Ride” by my girl Clover Hope, an editor at XXL and freelancer extraordinaire:
Her pop-star façade, on the other hand, is ill-fitting. R&B singers tend to come wrapped in a nice, predefined persona— for better or worse—but Ciara’s was always vague and undefined.
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