A Nu Day

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A Nu Day
Studio album by Tamia
Released	October 10, 2000
Genre	R&B
Label	Elektra
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Entertainment Weekly [1] newburycomics [2]
Tamia chronology
Tamia (1998)	A Nu Day (2000)	More (2004)

A Nu Day is Tamia's second solo album. It was released on October 10, 2000. This is Tamia's most successful album to date (both critically and commercially) thus far, selling over 764,000 copies to date and receiving generally favorable reviews. It debuted and peaked at #46 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The record spawned Tamia's most successful single, " Stranger in My House", which reached #10 on the Hot 100 and topped the dance charts for several weeks.

Amazon.com said that Tamia's sophomore effort begins with the singer's crisp, angelic voice a cappella, wrapped around a mournful interlude about a relationship gone awry. It's a gorgeous intro, and put there perhaps to remind listeners that the 24-year-old vocalist from Windsor, Canada, can sing like nobody's business when given the opportunity. Unfortunately, most of the tracks on A Nu Day deny Tamia the chance, with ho-hum, practically rote R&B fare produced, surprisingly, by some of the best in the biz. When Missy Elliott brings her production skills to the table on the album's first single, Can't Go for That (Missy Elliott also produces four other cuts), it's as if the tune is running on automatic, with all of Elliott's stop-start, jerk-heavy rhythms running listlessly beneath a sample of the Hall and Oates song of the same name. "Tell Me Who," a collaboration with producer Shep Crawford, fares better, managing to capture a sassy, straight-up feel reminiscent of early En Vogue. The album offers a pleasant surprise, however, with a cover of the 1983 DeBarge tune, Love Me in a Special Way on which Tamia works wonders, her sonorous mezzo soprano digging soulfully into the soaring melody. --Sylvia W. Chan

[edit] Track listing

1. "Interlude"
2. "Dear John"
3. "Can't Go For That"
4. "Go"
5. "Love Me In A Special Way"
6. "Long Distance Love"
7. "Stranger In My House"
8. "Wanna Be"
9. "Un'h To You"
10. "Can't No Man"
11. "Tell Me Who"
12. "If I Were You"
13. "Can't Go For That (213 Remix)"
14. "Single" (Japanese Bonus Track)