JoJo

It's easy to denigrate JoJo. She was a child actress on "Kids Say the Darndest Things," she's too cute for her own good and she liberally borrows from other singers. But the girl does have pipes, and The High Road is a fitting follow-up to her widely popular eponymous debut. The crazy-in-love "The Way You Do Me" is so messy that it's exhilarating, while "Anything" samples Toto. Fans of sugary, carefree pop will love this.

Since JoJo released her debut album at the age of thirteen, the R&B popster has become a
role model to suburban adolescents who talk gangsta but still carpool to school in mom's Kia
Sorento. ("Yo, these cup holders is the shizz!") The High Road won't disappoint them, and it
should also establish the now-fifteen-year-old singer as a future pop powerhouse. JoJo has
got average-girl appeal with diva-quality pipes, and on songs such as the title tra... More >