Magic Moment is not a place where Cee Lo Green has arrived by virtue of evolution. An album of strictly Christmas fare. No one else on contemporary pop radio carries the torch for true soul singing and vintage R&B hooks like he does. OnMagic Moment, Green does a lot of broad-strokes Motown. There is the playful jazz shuffle-cum-melismatic exercise of "Baby It's Cold Outside”, featuring Christina Aguilera, the heavy Christian mojo of "Mary, Did You Know?".The avec Rod Stewart "Merry Christmas, Baby",its airlessness cementing a hallowed space on Lite FM from now until the sun swallows the Earth. Magic Moment's most curious collaboration is with the Muppets on his original, "All I Need Is Love", which is built on a sample of their beloved "Mahna Mahna". Green sounds like he really has been waiting all year to trap unsuspecting people under the mistletoe; clawing his presents open like a wolverine. He's so motherfucking cheery he makes Burl Ives seem like Michael Gira. Still reminding us that despite all this Christmas ham, the closet freak is still in there somewhere.
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