Single Life is a 1985 album by the funk group Cameo. The album reached No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 58 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. It contained the hit singles "Attack Me With Your Love", which reached No. 3 R&B, and the title track, "Single Life", which reached No. 2 R&B (it also reached No. 15 in the UK charts). "Urban Warrior" was the group's foray into the emerging Hip-hop scene. The videos for both singles included appearances from popular television soap opera actors and were tied together by a particular storyline; with the title track’s video being a continuation of the story that started in the "Attack Me With Your Love" video. The album was Cameo’s seventh to be certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies.
The first two tracks are definitely a cut above anything the group had put out since the start of the decade, but overall they can't sustain the momentum throughout the entire album. Generally, you can gauge the lack of quality control by the uptick in seriousness (the back-to-back schmaltzy ballads "A Good-Bye" and "I'll Never Look At Love"), and there's still these silly reggae tangents (the sub-standard taunt "Little Boys - Dangerous Toys"), making this another mixed bag overall.
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