Just a Rolling Stone

Performer: Donnie Klang
Artist: P. Diddy
Engineer: Andrew Wuepper
Producer: Souldiggaz; Jim Beanz; C. "Tricky" Stewart; The-Dream; Young Boyz; Corte Ellis; Danja; Jack Knight; Mario Winans; Mary Brown; P. Diddy; The Fliptones; Ralph Kearns; Seven Aurelius; Yinon Yahel; Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson; Mo Chedda; Channel 7
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Iyanna Dean (vocals, background vocals); D. Woods (vocals); Mario Winans (various instruments); Mike Wideman (guitar); Ken Lewis (guitars); Sean Alexander (keyboards); Drew Ryan Scott, Corte Ellis, James Burney (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Jaycen Joshua; Dave Pensado; Rich Trevali; Matthew Testa; James Wisner; Ken Lewis ; Mario Winans. Arrangers: Donnie Klang; Corte Ellis; Iyanna Dean; Jack Knight. As champion of Making the Band 4, Donnie Klang proved his vocal abilities on P. Diddy's reality show. On his debut album, JUST A ROLLING STONE, the Levittown, Long Island native proves himself in the studio, working with producers Channel 7, Mario Winans, Soul Diggaz, Danja, the Young Boyz, Bryan-Michael Cox, and the-Dream. JUST A ROLLING STONE includes the hit single "Take You There." A prot�g� of hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, R&B vocalist Donnie Klang was also a member of the fourth season of Diddy's MTV show Making the Band. A fan favorite, Diddy ultimately didn't pick Klang to join his boy band, but instead offered the burgeoning idol a solo contract on Bad Boy records. 2008's Just a Rolling Stone is the product of that signing and positions Klang as a kind of lesser Justin Timberlake or less amusing Robin Thicke. In any case, the results on Just a Rolling Stone are less interesting than either of those aforementioned R&B crooners and more along the lines of a Color Me Badd-reboot. Which is to say, Klang's music is oddly outdated and sounds too much like the thin, studio-driven early-'90s pop Timberlake helped SNL-comedian Andy Samberg satirize with the "Dick in a Box" video. Replete with spoken word interludes in which Klang answers the question, "Have you ever had your heart broken?" and "Do you want to find love?," -- the answer is yes, but ever the romantic, Klang says he doesn't want to force it but wants to, "meet a girl out of nowhere and be like, wow like, this was unexpected." -- the album generally plays to Klang's intended audience of dewy-eyed teen girls enamored with Klang's nasally vocals and gelled-up hairdo. That said, Just a Rolling Stone does feature a few catchy tracks like campy, club-ready "Dr. Love" and silly if admittedly fun "Hollwood Girl" an obvious ode to club girls who aspire to live lifestyles similar to those detailed on MTV's The Hills -- "director's movie script, champagne take a sip" anyone? But really, it's pretty clear that nobody, P. Diddy included, probably expected Klang to register much farther than his built-in MTV/TRL audience,and that alone may be enough for Just a Rolling Stone to drop with less of a thud and more of a Klang. [A Circuit City Exclusive was also released.] ~ Matt Collar A prot�g� of hip-hop mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, R&B vocalist Donnie Klang was also a member of the fourth season of Diddy's MTV show Making the Band. A fan favorite, Diddy ultimately didn't pick Klang to join his boy band, but instead offered the burgeoning idol a solo contract on Bad Boy records. 2008's Just a Rolling Stone is the product of that signing. Replete with spoken word interludes in which Klang answers the question, "Have you ever had your heart broken?" and "Do you want to find love?," -- the answer is yes, but ever the romantic, Klang says he doesn't want to force it but wants to, "meet a girl out of nowhere and be like, wow like, this was unexpected." -- the album generally plays to Klang's intended audience of dewy-eyed teen girls enamored with Klang's nasally vocals and gelled-up hairdo. Just a Rolling Stone features a few catchy tracks like the campy, club-ready "Dr. Love" and silly if admittedly fun "Hollwood Girl," an obvious ode to club girls. ~ Matt Collar

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