Like Mary J.
Blige, Price has a big, bad, beautiful voice.
And like Blige, she often chooses smart material to go along with that big, bad, beautiful voice.
On her second album, she goes through many R&B motions -- over-singing, pallid bedroom songs, tuneless tales -- but still manages to sound like a genuinely thrilled diva in the process.
Filled with slow jams, slick hip-hop, and gospel, Mirror Mirror is a more rounded record than Price's debut.
Best is a cover of Shirley Murdock's "As We Lay" played like a Broadway curtain-closer.
It reveals Price's penchant for theatricality and demonstrates her warmth as a singer.
She puts an individualist's stamp on the album, a looking glass, if you will, into her soul.