Jennifer Hudson also features a traditional gospel number, a handbags-at-dawn duet with Fantasia, a few trendyish R&B tracks and 'All Dressed In Love', a Motown-flavoured offering from the Sex And The City soundtrack. The likes of 'You Pulled Me Through', a blousy Diane Warren power ballad, and 'Giving Myself', a boring, sappy love song, don't seem to belong on the same album as 'Pocketbook', a sassy Timbaland production on which Hudson tells a horny male he "ain't the only brother trying to get up under my skirt now". Then again, given the lacklustre material she's often saddled with here, who can blame her? Hudson apparently recorded more than 40 tracks for this album, and it's tempting to surmise that the 15 that made the final tracklisting were picked at random. Its presence also exposes the fact that Hudson rarely seems quite as engaged elsewhere on the album, even though she belts out plenty of money notes, especially during its second half. But removed from the context of the film, Hudson's histrionic vocal sounds slightly ridiculous, offering a listening experience that's not unlike being run over by a truck. 'And I'm Telling You' appears towards the end of Hudson's debut album, a record that diva lovers have been looking forward to, well, ever since she sang it. Well, thank heavens she didn't try to match Jennifer Hudson's ear-splitting rendition of 'And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going', the Dreamgirls torch song that made her a star, or the fine would have been doubled. Her loud, "whining" performances of hairbrush favourites such as 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' had apparently been disturbing her neighbours for five years. In August this year a Brighton woman was fined £135 after she broke a noise abatement order forbidding her to sing karaoke in the comfort of her own home.
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