"Most pop/hip-hop collaborations don't qualify here commissioning a verse from a rapper to increase your single's reach does not a duet make but Lights On does. It moves back and forth between both participants, and moreover, it's superb: a perfect evocation of the night ending before the stimulants have worn off."
"The whole of Gentry and Campbell's eponymous duets album is a delight, but if you had to pick a highlight, their version of the Gentry-penned Morning Glory is the one. It's a spectacularly lovely song, its drowsy but glowing mood a one-night-stand gone right, a rarity in pop amplified by the twin vocals."
"The kind of improbable masterpiece that only Prince in his pomp could have dreamed up, then executed so convincingly: funk with squealing rock guitars, former MOR favourite Sheena Easton recast as strutting temptress, the whole thing held together by spoken-word sections that compare sex to baseball. The end result is, unaccountably, incredible."
Most pop and hip-hop collaborations often feature a commissioned rap verse rather than true duet interplay. Lights On exemplifies a genuine duet by alternating vocals and capturing the feeling of the night ending while stimulants still linger. Gentry and Campbell's duets album contains delights, with Morning Glory noted for its drowsy, glowing mood amplified by twin vocals. Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle's Picking Up After You offers weary after-hours jazz that dissects a stale marriage. Otis Redding and Carla Thomas's Tramp uses argumentative interplay and a funky breakbeat, with Thomas's disparaging vocal undercutting Redding's soul-man image. Prince with Sheena Easton and Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway provide further standout duet moments.
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