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List Price: $19.93 | | Label: La Face
Salesrank: 32008
Released: May 5, 2009 |
| Our Price: $2.30 |
| Used Price: $2.14 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Fantasy Ride (Limited Edition CD/DVD) Track Listing:
1. Ciara To The Stage
2. Love Sex Magic featuring Justin Timberlake
3. High Price featuring Ludacris
4. Turntables featuring Chris Brown
5. Like A Surgeon
6. Never Ever featuring Young Jeezy
7. Lover's Thing featuring The-Dream
8. Work featuring Missy Elliott
9. Pucker Up
10. G Is For Girl (A-Z)
11. Keep Dancin' On Me
12. Tell Me What Your Name Is
13. I Don't Remember
14. Echo
15. I'm On
Editorial Review:
DVD Running time: approximately 50 minutes
Behind the scenes at:
Photoshoot
Rehearsals
Recording Studio
Making of:
Go Girl
Love Sex Magic
Video:
Love Sex Magic
Never Ever
Go Girl
Fantasy Ride (Limited Edition CD/DVD) Reviews:
Love it! 
2009-06-08 - I love the new direction she is going in and it was to be expected since she is maturing into a beautiful young women. This is the first CD I have bought in a long time that I can actually listen to from beginning to end. I love it!
Jeff's Fantasy Ride with Ciara
2009-06-07 - Product was perfect in all aspects: timely arrival, clean condition, exceptional quality. This is one satisfied customer.
CIARA COME BACK!!!!
2009-05-23 - Wow!!! I'm so happy for a new album of Ciara!!! After Goodies and The evolution, the Queen of R&B is come back!!! I love all songs especially Love sex magic, Never ever, Pucker up, Tell me what your name is, Echo, I'm on (this last two songs are bonus-track). Ciara is so sexy girl and singer!!!
She Lost Focus :-( 
2009-05-20 - I feared the worst for this album when it kept getting pushed back, for one. Then when 'Go Girl' failed to make noise, and the follow-up 'Never Ever' as well, I was just done. 'Love Sex Magic' was a decent rebound, but it was more than clear that it was a possible left over from his FutureSex/LoveSounds album and a desperate attempt to draw people in last minute. And it still hasn't generated anything compared to the singles on her last two albums. When I saw the cover I was even more mortified. And from my years of listening to music, you know you're in for a crap of an album when there are tons of guest appearances noted (with the exception of a few). The original concept of a 3-CD set crossing different genres of music and her alter ego 'Super C' was a bit exciting for a young lady who is clearly the heir to Janet Jackson and Aaliyah's throne, but looks like someone by the name of Beyonce beat her to the punch.
All jokes aside, this CD is disappointing and really all over the place. I expected so much more. It seems that she tried too hard and just lost focus and sight of what she wanted in the end, which could be at the fault of the label. Up-tempo cuts like 'G is For Girl (A to Z),' 'Turntables' f/ Chris Brown, and 'Work' f/ Missy Elliot are not the cream of the crop and all over the place musically. Ciara overdoes it on 'Ciara to the Stage' and 'Keep Dancing On Me,' and 'I Don't Remember' is a horrible attempt to recreate a theme perfectly created by Britney Spears's 'Blur.'
'Tell Me What Your Name Is' and 'Pucker Up' are tossups, but there are some high points. Two of the singles that have already been released make the final cut ('Go Girl' isn't featured for some strange reason but included on the Limited Edition CD/DVD as a video only) and are to Ciara's standards vocally and musically. The-Dream puts her in her comfort zone with the opera-like 'High Price' f/ Ludacris and the duet with himself on 'Lover's Thing.' 'Like a Surgeon' has a Prince-esque type of vibe similar to how she won people over on her sophomore album with 'Promise.' The two bonus tracks on the Limited Edition CD/DVD, 'Echo' and 'I'm On' are phenomenal and should've replaced the weakest tracks on the main album. With these songs it puts in prospective how the vibe of the album would've been had she stuck it through because they are classic Ciara R&B/Pop bangers.
This album is definitely the worst of the three. I expected her to progress even more with the positive response from her sophomore release, but this is below the bar she set by far. I guess every artist has that one album that just wasn't on point for whatever reason and this is Ciara's unfortunately. Thank goodness she's in her early 20s and still has a long career ahead of her.
I expect to see her revamped and in normal form whenever the next album drops, but this simply is not her best work. Could've been a lot better.
Disappointed 
2009-05-11 - When your CD is Leaked to the internet...you go back to the studio and work on new material...don't get lazy and say what the hell..and release it, thats how you get a "FLOP"...I heard each and every last song on the internet in the pass 8 months..."Work" should have been the first single she goes to work on this song literally
