Make It Last Forever (album)

This article is about the album. For other uses of the word, see MILF.

Make it Last Forever
Studio album by Keith Sweat
Released	November 24, 1987
Recorded	1986–1987
Genre	R&B, new jack swing
Length	41:32
Label	Vintertainment/Elektra
Producer	Keith Sweat, Teddy Riley
Keith Sweat chronology
Make it Last Forever (1987) I'll Give All My Love to You (1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(B)[2]
Musician	(favorable)[3]

Make It Last Forever is the debut album of American R&B recording artist Keith Sweat. Released on November 24, 1987, the album went to #1 on the Top R&B Albums chart for three weeks (and topped the Billboard Year-End R&B chart for 1988), and #5 on the Billboard 200. Make It Last Forever was one of the earliest R&B albums to showcase the up-and-coming New Jack Swing sound, as it was mostly produced by Sweat himself and music producer Teddy Riley.

The album's biggest hit was "I Want Her", a #5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the first #1 R&B hit for Sweat. The title track, "Don't Stop Your Love" and "Something Just Ain't Right" were major Top Ten hits on the Billboard R&B charts. On April 6, 1994, Make It Last Forever was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of three million copies in the United States.^[4] The single "I Want Her" was certified gold by the RIAA on June 13, 1989, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the US.^[4]

Reception

J.D. Considine of Musician stated in a review upon the album's release, "Though Keith Sweat is B-Boy enough to relish the cheap-drum-machine clatter of the classic hip-hop groove, he's also sufficiently soulful to keep that from crowding his vocal style".^[3] In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave Make It Last Forever a B rating,^[2] indicating "an admirable effort that aficionados of the style or artist will probably find quite listenable".^[5] Christgau commented that "the beats prove Teddy Riley New York's answer to Jam & Lewis" and stated "For credentials the next big love man proffers beats on the slow ones and lyrics whose seduction strategy is never to offend".^[2] In a retrospective review, Allmusic editor Andrew Hamilton viewed it as Sweat's best album and complimented his "pleading, whining tenor", writing that it "adroitly draws you into every song, demanding an emotional commitment".^[1]

Track listing

1. "Something Just Ain't Right" (Keith Sweat/Teddy Riley) 5:22
2. "Right and A Wrong Way" (Sweat/Riley) 5:17
3. "Tell Me It's Me You Want" (Sweat/Riley) 4:44
4. "I Want Her" (Sweat/Riley) 5:58
5. "Make It Last Forever" (featuring Jacci McGhee) (Sweat/Riley) 4:55
6. "In the Rain" (Tony Hester) 5:42
7. "How Deep Is Your Love" (Sweat/Riley) 4:47
8. "Don't Stop Your Love" (Sweat) 6:12

Personnel

• Keith Sweat – Main Performer, Producer
• Teddy Riley – Producer
• Jeff Neiblum – Engineer, Vocals (bckgr), Percussion
• Clifford Branch – Keyboards, Vocals (bckgr)
• George Heylinger – Vocals (bckgr)
• Emmanuel Rahiem LeBlanc – Vocals (bckgr)
• Jacci McGhee – Vocals (bckgr), Performer
• Vivian Sessoms – Vocals (bckgr)

Charts

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

1987        Make It Last Forever        Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums        No. 1
1987        Make It Last Forever        The Billboard 200             No. 5

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles

1987  I Want Her                  Hot R&B Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks    No. 1
1987  I Want Her                  The Billboard Hot 100               No. 5
1987  I Want Her                  Hot Dance Music/Maxi Single Sales   No. 5
1987  I Want Her                  Hot Dance Music/Club Play           No. 38
1988  Make It Last Forever        The Billboard Hot 100               No. 7
1988  Make It Last Forever        Hot R&B Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks    No. 1
1988  Something Just Ain't Right  The Billboard Hot 100               No. 79
1988  Something Just Ain't Right  Hot R&B Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks    No. 3
1988  Something Just Ain't Right  Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales   No. 49
1988  Don't Stop Your Love        Hot R&B Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks    No. 9

See also

• Billboard Year-End
• List of number-one R&B albums of 1988 (U.S.)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Hamilton, Andrew (August 1, 2003). Make It Last Forever - Keith Sweat | AllMusic: Review. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2011-04-11.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Christgau, Robert (April 12, 1988). Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Apr. 12, 1988. Robert Christgau. The Village Voice. Retrieved on 2011-04-11.
3. ^ ^{a b} Considine, J.D. (1988). "Keith Sweat – Make It Last Forever (Elektra)". Musician (Amordian Press) (111–116): 126. 
4. ^ ^{a b} RIAA - Gold & Platinum: Keith Sweat. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved on 2011-04-18.
5. ^ Christgau, Robert (November 15, 2000). Robert Christgau: CG 70s: The Grades. Robert Christgau. Retrieved on 2011-04-11.

External links

• Make It Last Forever at Discogs