Track Listing

1. Supernatural - Raven
2. Shine - Raven
3. Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney
4. To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
5. More to Live - Stacie Orrico
6. We Are Family - Jump 5
7. Superstar - Jamila
8. Ultimate - Lindsay Lohan
9. You Gotta Be - Des'ree
10. I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan
11. Where You Belong - Huckapoo
12. Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
13. Future Is Clear - Jeannie Ortega
14. Theme Song - Raven
15. Supernatural (Crystal Ball mix) - Raven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119312 in Music
• Released on: 2004-05-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

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Disney has come to dominate the next-gen practice of pasting crowd pleasers into its soundtracks, and so it goes with Raven. Which, in this case, was a particularly wise move. Raven's contributions to these songs "from and inspired by" her tween-targeted TV show are fine, but don't go much farther. So instead of bumping the star's first two thumping, pop-slick tracks against Cheryl Lynn's disco classic "To Be Real," this disc's producers inserted a warm-up: Jesse McCartney's "Beautiful Soul" serves as a pleasant-enough buffer between manufactured music and the real, rip-roaring deal. Later, Des'ree's sophisticated "You Gotta Be" offsets Jump5's frantic futzing about on its cover of "We Are Family," continuing the high-low split. Sliced in are straight-outta-Kidz Bop anthems "Ultimate" and "There's Gotta Be (More to Life)," but ultimately we're returned to Raven, who holds her own but has reason to feel self-conscious about singing, for the second time, a song called "Supernatural" (a nod to her TV character's psychic gifts, but still). If the music scores a collective B minus, the package gets an A for extras: A bonus DVD has four Raven music videos, and the CD also works as a "special message" CD-ROM. --Tammy La Gorce