Diva Yes... Better Collection No...

For so many artists, yet they have to keep being reintroduced with Greatest Hits collections that really don't seem to stand on their own two feet. That has been the case with so many Soul Artists including Roberta Flack, and Anita Baker. Sadly, that also goes within the case of Vanessa Williams. Yet, she has made herself into a elegant torch vocalist, but there is a case wheer the hit collections don't seem to really add up.

As Part of the Universal series 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, this 2003 Greatest Hits collection, is more drawn to budget record going buyers. The songs that Vanessa Williams performed is ranged quite nicely, with songs that are just truly as amazing as you could see and hear from her. The songs basically reflect from her four studio records with Mercury, The Right Stuff, The Comfort Zone, The Sweetest Days, and Next. There are just so many good songs here on this collection including Save The Best For Last, Dreamin', The Right Stuff, and Oh How The Years Go By.

Still, it is just a mixed bag on this collection, because there are some songs that weren't featured on Vanessa's 1998 Greatest Hits record: The First Ten Years like Happiness, and Work To Do. But that also goes the same in the opposite direction. There are just so many good songs that also were overlooked here, including Love Is, her duet with Brian McKnight, Colors Of The Wind, which won an Academy Award in 1996, and Where Do We Go From Here from her 1996 film, Eraser.

Still, there are so many people that are still drawn in to Vanessa Williams music. If they never heard some of these songs, I suggest they buy this collection, and her other Greatest Hits record, The First Ten Years. Hopefully, that will bring so many smiles alone on so many faces. Still, I would love to see her sometime come back with a new album soon.

Mix Bag

Vanessa Williams got better with time as a Artist.I like Her stuff with Brian Mcknight.these Songs featured Here are alright.some work&some I can do without hearing for a while.She understood the Concept of Being a Stylist&it worked well in Her favor.

They chose 10 good songs for this compilation.

I think that this is just as good as the other compilation album by Vanessa Williams, which was "The First 10 years". They concentrated on her 4 Wing/ Mercury albums. I still crank up "The Right Stuff" a lot! Those beats on that song kicked hard back in '88! It shocked me when it came out because it showed a very radical and different Vanessa, and she pulled it off nicely! She has really blossomed as an artist, moving into more mature songs as of late. Dreamin', I still love and the songs Happiness, Save The Best For Last, and Running Back to You are still favorites to this day. One minor glitch was when they printed the CD on the back. The person must have thought that there were 11 songs instead of 10. Funny error when you see it. Might have had a deadline to turn the art work and album cover in to the record company. But this is a smartly thought out album of Vanessa's hits within a 9-year period.