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| Recorded = 1993 | Genre = Dance music, R&B | Length = 72:17 | Label = A&M | Producer = Steve "Silk" Hurley, Soulshock & Karlin, Sir Jinx, Marc Dubuclet & Tim Miner, Andres Levin & Camus Maré Celli, David Morales, Brian McKnight, Richard Wolf | Reviews = | Last album = ''Finally / We Got a Love Thang: Remix Collection'' (1992) | This album = ''Thought 'Ya Knew'' (1994) | Next album = ''Remix Collection'' (1994) | Misc = }} ''Thought 'Ya Knew'' is the second solo studio album released by American singer CeCe Peniston, issued on January 10, 1994 by A&M Records. Peniston collaborated with her Chicago-based producer Steve Hurley, Carsten Schack and Kenneth Karlin (better recognized as duo Soulshock & Karlin) from Denmark, David Morales, Sir Jinx, and on one track ("Forever In My Heart") also with the multiple Grammy Award-nominee Brian McKnight. Decided not getting pigeonholed into the dance genre, the singer recorded for the set several ballads, trying to move into a R&B direction. Unlike its predecessor ''Finally'', her second album was, therefore, a calculated mixture of pop ballads and R&B beats, though incorporating also other genres, such as jazz ("I'm in the Mood"), funk (I'm Not Over You"), reggae ("Through Those Doors") and gospel ("I Will Be Received"). The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics, and commercially, it proved to be a moderate success. Debuting on February 12, 1994 at number #102 on the ''Billboard'' 200, the album reached its peak a week later at number ninety-six, while spending in U.S. nineteen weeks in total. Overseas, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number thirty-one, but charted for only two weeks there. Other territories included Switzerland (at number thirty-two), Japan (at number sixty-six), Netherlands (at number sixty-nine), and Germany (at number ninety-two). Four official singles were released from the set, three of which entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, as well as the UK Singles Chart. All of them became successful on the dance field, bringing Peniston two additional number one hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs. In Japan, the album was shortly followed by ''Remix Collection'', which featured alternate versions of songs issued on singles. The album was not accompanied by a worldwide tour. ==Critical reception== ''Thought 'Ya Knew'' received mainly mixed reviews. In terms of artistic achievement, dancefloor potential or chart performance, the album did not match the success of Peniston's debut album, ''Finally''. Jose F. Promis from Allmusic, however, blamed the record label A&M for marketing the artist to an R&B audience, which he called the "big mistake". Giving the album three (ouf of five stars), he highlighted especially "Hit by Love" anthem as the song closer in spirit to the singer's early dance hits, but he admitted that by that time of the single's release its "steam had worn off".〔 Both critics, Martin Johnson from ''Chicago Reader'' and Johnny Huston from ''Entertainment Weekly'' agreed that the album's low points occurred on its ballads and that Peniston faltered on slower numbers. (Johnson also added that even Toni Braxton, who redefined the urban contemporary ballad, "would have trouble breathing life into them").〔 While Huston noticed Patti LaBelle-influenced vocal stylings (on "Through Those Doors"),〔 Johnson recalled young Chaka Khan and stressed the pungent lower registers of the singer's voice (on "Searchin'").〔 ''People'' magazine found the album's problem in Peniston's big-time pop success and her new need to be seen more serious than just a dance-music artist. Calling ballads ''"the ballads from hell"'', the magazine reproached that all the slow stuff did was focus on Peniston's vocal limitations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thought 'Ya Knew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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