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Forget that Sean Kingston is about as reggae-sounding as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Forget that he uses Auto-Tune more than Kanye West singing the collected works of Freddy Mercury. The important thing to remember is that, well, he’s lovable. He’s a round mound of raw teenage heartbreak that brings out the sympathetic grandmother in all of us. Granted, the 19-year-old crooner strikes a slightly more steely pose in Tomorrow – the follow-up LP to his self-titled debut album – than he did two years ago when “Beautiful Girls” carried his romantically-thwarted ass all the way to the top of the singles charts. On “Face Drop,” the album’s second single, we find Oprahesque self-respect where the old insecurity used to be: “Sayin’ that I’d look better if I was thinner/Don’t you know you should have loved me for my inner.” On other tracks, we find the cherubic Floridian going toe-to-toe for his beloved (“War”) and gettin’ his dance-floor freak on (“Fire Burning”). Sigh. Hip-hop manchild superstars. They grow up so fast these days.
Thu., Oct. 15, 8 p.m., 2009
