Shock Value II

Timbaland - Shock Value II
Critic Score
Based on 9 reviews
2009 Ratings: #911 / 923
User Score
Based on 45 ratings
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CRITIC REVIEWS

67
Entertainment Weekly

Timbaland has endured plenty of dude-is-done gossip recently, but on Shock Value II, the sequel to 2007’s Shock Value, the once-untouchable producer proves his Rolodex, at least, still knows no equal.

60
Evening Standard
Mosley's unremarkable rapping aside, the success of these 17 songs depends largely on your feelings about who's singing them.
50
NME
It seems Timbaland’s parties are no longer worth attending.
50
Rolling Stone

Timbaland hoped to sign up Madonna, Beyoncé, T.I. and Jay-Z for this album — a NOW That's What I Call Music in his own image. Instead, he settled for Drake, Daughtry, Chad Kroeger, Miley Cyrus, his protégés OneRepublic, his little brother Sebastian and BFFs like Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado.

50
Billboard
Even if Timbaland hadn’t altered his vocals, his voice would still be lost on “Shock Value II” because of an overdependence on guest stars-collaborations with everyone from Miley Cyrus to the Fray stifle the album’s flow.
40
AllMusic

Timbaland does not stock Shock Value II with quite as many guests, and performs a higher percentage of the vocals, and what results is less schizophrenic and more directly pop than its antecedent.

40
HipHopDX
Some of it works with an immense vibe factor, while most other attempts inspire a push of the skip button and a shake of the head.
30
Consequence of Sound

This album is two years too late; perhaps as an offshoot “B-side” record for the original release, this would have sparked some interest. As a standalone release, however, it’s a convoluted mix of country and hip hop songs, and Timbaland himself fails to deliver much of his production genius over 17 bloated tracks.

30
Slant Magazine

Shock Value II is the kind of bonus fluff that you can get away with releasing when you’re as famous and respected as Timbaland.

Ishanb0599
69

morning after dark carries, the rest of the album sucks

jsharma17
48

Timbaland is a revered rap producer who also practically reshaped pop in the 2000s. To say this guy's contributions to music are legendary would be an understatement. So it's even more head-scratching how a musicial genius would actually release this project. Shock Value II is bad. Not the type of bad where artists don't perform to their usual standards but the type of bad where the artists themselves have 0 business being on the songs they're on. Timbaland has never been much of a vocalist ... read more

Pieter
20

At first I thought: "This is utter garbage", but then I started vibing to "Can You Feel It" and "Timothy Where Have You Been". Then I knew it was garbage.

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Added on: May 19, 2013