EMUSIC

The Little White Boy That Could wants to use his magic to saturate panties all over the world.

Robin Thicke had mild success with “When I Get You Alone,” a successful sample of Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven,” which clearly samples Beethoven.  He lookeded a hot mess though.

Fast forward a couple years later and a makeover that makes you wonder if his father, Growing Pains’ Alan Thicke, is a DILF and you have The Evolution of Robin Thicke (both literally and album-wise).

Unknown hit “I Wanna Love U” simply failed.  Spending more than 9 months promoting it and adding Busta Rhymes to the remix did absolutely nothing for this Neptunes track.  Nothing.

So Thicke released “Lost Without U,” a song that exemplifies what he does best - sing in a falsetto so grown n’ sexy it makes that of Justin Timberlake look like a Rugrat.

Press skip on both singles that followed and play a year later on new single “Magic.”  Sophisticated and well-orchestrated, “Magic” is almost a toned-down version of Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got,” keeping Thicke’s vocals simple and the music complex to make a combination that is simply beautiful.

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