Tempted | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Genre | Dance | |||
Label | Kinetic/ Sire/ Reprise [1] | |||
Producer | Ray Carroll | |||
Waterlillies chronology | ||||
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Singles from Tempted | ||||
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Tempted is the second, and last, album by the American dance duo Waterlillies. [2] [3] It was released in 1994. [4] The title track was a top 10 hit on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. [5]
The album was mostly produced by Ray Carroll. "Take My Breath Away" was written and produced by Sandra Jill Alikas. [6] Tempted includes an a cappella cover of the Carpenters' " Close to You". [7]
The Junior Vasquez remix of "Never Get Enough" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for a week in April 1995. [8] It reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[ citation needed]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [11] |
Knoxville News Sentinel | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Trouser Press called the title track "a rousing dance track that garnered a fair share of radio and club play," writing that, "except for a wholly unnecessary a cappella rendition of Bacharach/David’s 'Close to You', the Waterlillies’ sophomore album stretches the boundaries of a limited aesthetic palette with greater returns than the debut." [1] Entertainment Weekly thought that, "on its own, singer-producer Sandra Jill Alikas' voice, a stock-still alto not unlike Enya's, would be just another aural massage, but instrumentalist-producer Ray Carroll’s gently boinging tracks add all sorts of shadings—wanton desire in 'Tempted', all-enveloping warmth in 'I Wanna Be There', sorrow in 'Never Get Enough'." [11] Billboard deemed the title track "a jiggly dance/pop number," writing that "Alikas is an angelic, compelling presence." [13]
The Miami Herald called the album "hypnotic," writing that the musicians "somehow manage to inject heat and heart into mid-tempo dance tunes despite using the tools of the trade—synths and drum machines." [14] The Record determined that "Carroll revels in early-Eighties synth-pop, creating dreamy, if uninvolving, melodies, with drum-machine tracks and the occasional hip-hop rhythm." [15] The New Yorker opined that Tempted "happily evokes both the glory days of the electronic eighties and the recent work of other dance-floor mavens, like Saint Etienne and Opus III, but without their nostalgia." [16]
AllMusic wrote that, "what sounds at first blush like just one more formulaic house-beats-plus-diva dance album turns out, on second listen, to be something a bit more subversive than that." [9]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Tempted" | |
2. | "I Wanna Be There" | |
3. | "Never Get Enough" | |
4. | "Free" | |
5. | "I Don't Want Your Love" | |
6. | "Nolion Doll" | |
7. | "Take My Breath Away" | |
8. | "Supersonic" | |
9. | "She Must Be in Love" | |
10. | "How Does It Feel?" | |
11. | "Work It Out" | |
12. | " Close to You" |
Tempted | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Genre | Dance | |||
Label | Kinetic/ Sire/ Reprise [1] | |||
Producer | Ray Carroll | |||
Waterlillies chronology | ||||
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Singles from Tempted | ||||
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Tempted is the second, and last, album by the American dance duo Waterlillies. [2] [3] It was released in 1994. [4] The title track was a top 10 hit on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. [5]
The album was mostly produced by Ray Carroll. "Take My Breath Away" was written and produced by Sandra Jill Alikas. [6] Tempted includes an a cappella cover of the Carpenters' " Close to You". [7]
The Junior Vasquez remix of "Never Get Enough" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for a week in April 1995. [8] It reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.[ citation needed]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [11] |
Knoxville News Sentinel | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Trouser Press called the title track "a rousing dance track that garnered a fair share of radio and club play," writing that, "except for a wholly unnecessary a cappella rendition of Bacharach/David’s 'Close to You', the Waterlillies’ sophomore album stretches the boundaries of a limited aesthetic palette with greater returns than the debut." [1] Entertainment Weekly thought that, "on its own, singer-producer Sandra Jill Alikas' voice, a stock-still alto not unlike Enya's, would be just another aural massage, but instrumentalist-producer Ray Carroll’s gently boinging tracks add all sorts of shadings—wanton desire in 'Tempted', all-enveloping warmth in 'I Wanna Be There', sorrow in 'Never Get Enough'." [11] Billboard deemed the title track "a jiggly dance/pop number," writing that "Alikas is an angelic, compelling presence." [13]
The Miami Herald called the album "hypnotic," writing that the musicians "somehow manage to inject heat and heart into mid-tempo dance tunes despite using the tools of the trade—synths and drum machines." [14] The Record determined that "Carroll revels in early-Eighties synth-pop, creating dreamy, if uninvolving, melodies, with drum-machine tracks and the occasional hip-hop rhythm." [15] The New Yorker opined that Tempted "happily evokes both the glory days of the electronic eighties and the recent work of other dance-floor mavens, like Saint Etienne and Opus III, but without their nostalgia." [16]
AllMusic wrote that, "what sounds at first blush like just one more formulaic house-beats-plus-diva dance album turns out, on second listen, to be something a bit more subversive than that." [9]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Tempted" | |
2. | "I Wanna Be There" | |
3. | "Never Get Enough" | |
4. | "Free" | |
5. | "I Don't Want Your Love" | |
6. | "Nolion Doll" | |
7. | "Take My Breath Away" | |
8. | "Supersonic" | |
9. | "She Must Be in Love" | |
10. | "How Does It Feel?" | |
11. | "Work It Out" | |
12. | " Close to You" |