Cuddle Up is an R&B pop track by the four member boy band crew Pretty Ricky. What usually makes R&B tracks good for me is their beats. A fly and banging beat hooking the listener in for what is coming next. In the case of "Cuddle Up" there is no banging beat. The beat is nothing byt a simple one kick, one snare, disco beat (similar to that of Michael Jacksons "Beat It" HOWEVER, "Beat It" actually sounds good). This beat does not. It is SOOOOOOOO boring. The same monotonous kick, snare, kick, snare, over and over again with the only change being when the producer decides to stop the beat completely for a whole beat before kicking back into much of the same.

I take it that Butta Creame is the girl featuring on this track? If so, she's pretty good and has a nice voice but she, like so many girl singers before her, succumbs to the same thing many good female vocalists do. Unnecessarily over the top Celine Dion / Whitney Houston style ad libs that actually really grate on me and IMO don't demonstrate vocal skill at all and in 99% of cases end up ruining a song for me. All four members of Pretty Ricky's performance are pretty whack, with me not even being able to distinguish that there are multiple voices. The same goes for the songs lyrical content - "I'll take a castle made of sand if you love my unconditionally" and "Take me in your arms and squeeze me tighter". It's like a 5 year old girl that still dreams of being a princess and finding a prince charming has written the words to this song. Hopefully in that case Butta Creame wrote the lyrics even if it's just to protect all four members of Pretty Ricky's reputation, street credibility and dignity.

I'm not really sure who this is really being marketed too but I don't imagine this song will do very well at all. When doing my research on the band I was confronted with this comment:

Can you believe Pretty Ricky is still around? Me either ...

Hahahaha. "Cuddle Up" is likely to do better in the US than anywhere else in the world HOWEVER, with so many better (and more original) R&B artists out there I can see Pretty Ricky "cuddling up" to a welfare cheque sooner than I see a single person falling in love with what is a mediocre boy band with a hot female friend [with a good voice] and a song that will undoubtedly sink into a sea of R&B mediocrity.