At just 18 years old, Selena Gomez is a showbiz vet, with a decade-plus in the game. (Before she was a Disney princess, she did dinosaur duets on Barney & Friends.) So it's no surprise that Gomez's third album is a very professional affair. The production credits are full of top flight songwriter-producers, and even a couple of starlets. (Britney Spears and Katy Perry get songwriting credits here). The songs are swathed up-to-minute Top 40 sounds — perky electro-pop, tuneful balladry — and they hit the expected notes. There are mildly swaggering kiss-offs ("Bang Bang Bang"), declarations of puppy love ("Love You Like A Love Song"), and self-help pep talks ("Who Says"). Gomez has a hint of raspiness in her singing voice that recalls her beau, Justin Bieber, but she brings nothing in the way of personality to her songs; the swaggering "sex" song "Whiplash" would be comical if it wasn't so tedious. Gomez may be the most boring teen-pop star of her generation. She makes Ashley Tisdale seem like Lady Gaga.

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“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"