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14-497: [REDACTED] Look up struggle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Struggle may refer to: Film and TV [ edit ] Struggle (2003 film) , an Austrian film Struggle (2013 film) Struggle (TV series) , 2007 Chinese TV series Music [ edit ] Struggle (Nonpoint album) , 1999 release Struggle (Woody Guthrie album) , 1990 "Struggle",

28-475: A statement, and its high point – the prettily emotive ballad " The Way That I Love You " – isn't enough to unseat the Beyoncés and Mary J. 's of the world." Rolling Stone ' s Christian Hoard thought that Ashanti "is still doing the diva-by-numbers thing, alternating between angry-at-her-man anthems and lovey pleasantry [...] But even with A-list producers like Babyface, Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins,

42-661: A track on Ashanti's 2008 album The Declaration "Struggle", a 1989 song by Keith Richards "Struggle", a 2002 song by Radio 4 See also [ edit ] Class struggle , a key concept in Marxism Conflict My Struggle , or Mein Kampf , book by Adolf Hitler Struggle , newsletter of the Southern Africa Support Project The Greek War of Independence was referred to by Greeks in

56-422: A track on Ashanti's 2008 album The Declaration "Struggle", a 1989 song by Keith Richards "Struggle", a 2002 song by Radio 4 See also [ edit ] Class struggle , a key concept in Marxism Conflict My Struggle , or Mein Kampf , book by Adolf Hitler Struggle , newsletter of the Southern Africa Support Project The Greek War of Independence was referred to by Greeks in

70-557: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages struggle [REDACTED] Look up struggle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Struggle may refer to: Film and TV [ edit ] Struggle (2003 film) , an Austrian film Struggle (2013 film) Struggle (TV series) , 2007 Chinese TV series Music [ edit ] Struggle (Nonpoint album) , 1999 release Struggle (Woody Guthrie album) , 1990 "Struggle",

84-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Declaration The album includes the single " The Way That I Love You ". Ashanti said during her June 2 appearance on the television program 106 & Park that she recorded fifty-two tracks for the album, of which fifteen—including the bonus tracks "Why" and " Hey Baby (After the Club) "—were used. This

98-402: Is her last album to be released on Irv Gotti's label The Inc. Records . The Declaration received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 52, based on 11 reviews, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Dan Gennoe of Yahoo! Music UK felt that the album

112-413: Is indeed growing up." AllMusic editor Andy Kellman found that "even though this album marks a nearly complete break from The Inc., it's very much in line with what came before it, hardly a major departure [...] This is neither a great nor a poor Ashanti album. It's decent, just like the rest of them." Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly wrote that The Declaration "simply doesn't make much of

126-537: Is unlikely to reclaim her spotlight." The Declaration debuted and peaked at number six on the US Billboard 200 , selling 86,000 copies in its first week of release. It marked Ashanti's lowest opening sales for a regular studio album to then and was a considerable decline from her previous effort Concrete Rose , which had opened to sales of 254,000 units in 2004. On the Top R&;B/Hip Hop Albums chart

140-525: The 19th century as the Αγώνας, Agonas , "Struggle" The Struggle (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Struggle . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struggle&oldid=1180581943 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

154-525: The 19th century as the Αγώνας, Agonas , "Struggle" The Struggle (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Struggle . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struggle&oldid=1180581943 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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168-547: The beats stick to straightforward bounce or subdued ballads. And Ashanti doesn't offer any more personality." Shanel Odum of Vibe gave a mixed review to the album, writing that "her voice is pleasant if sometimes uninspiring, but on soulful songs like "You’re Gonna Miss," the pain in her sweet-as- Smarties voice is definite. But even with all the emo-passion, nearly half of this album is lukewarm." Now writer Benjamin Boles found that it's "all too evident why The Declaration

182-518: Was "surprisingly short of anything even approaching a commercial hit [but] even without instant hooks to grab on to, it's amazingly compelling." He called The Declaration a "supremely subtle and sophisticated record" as well as "the best album of Ashanti's career." Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine felt that while "past releases have displayed an ostensible desire to follow in the melodramatic steps of Mary J. Blige and much of Declaration continues in that quest," it also "aims to prove that Ashanti

196-503: Was delayed. Producer LT Hutton is behind most of these beats, and it’s easy to see why he hasn’t had a hit in years. A few bigger names drop in (Nelly and Akon might as well be sleepwalking here), but none sound like they’re putting much into their appearances. Ashanti’s still got a decent voice, but she’s badly in need of a better songwriting and production team." The Boston Globe remarked that "after four years away, Ashanti declares that she's back, but this middling, familiar set of songs

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