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| Genre = | Length = | Label = | Producer = | Last album = ''Toni Braxton'' (1993) | This album = ''Secrets'' (1996) | Next album = ''The Heat'' (2000) | Misc = }} ''Secrets'' is the second studio album by American singer Toni Braxton, released on June 18, 1996 by LaFace Records and Arista Records. The album was nominated for Best Pop Album at the 1997 Grammy Awards. ''Secrets'' has been certified octuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold 5,364,000 copies in the United States. Worldwide, the album has sold over 15 million copies. In support of the album, Braxton embarked on the Secrets Tour, playing dates in North America and Europe from August 1996 to October 1997. ==Composition== The album's first song "Come On Over Here" is a "finger-poppingly upbeat", sultry groove track produced by Tony Rich. It was described as "a neo-Motown composition.〔 The second track and lead single, the airily funky "You're Makin' Me High", was produced by Babyface and Bryce Wilson.〔 It was also nominated for Best R&B Song at the Grammy Awards.〔 The third track "There's No Me Without You" is a romantic song.〔 The fourth track and second single "Un-Break My Heart" is a ballad written by Diane Warren. She played the finished song to Arista Records president Clive Davis. He thought it would be perfect for Toni Braxton. With background vocals by Shanice Wilson and produced by David Foster, the song spent 11 weeks at number one at pop and 14-week stay at number one on adult contemporary radio stations in late 1996.〔 It also won a 1997 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.〔 It is a song of blistering heartbreak, as Braxton sings to her former lover, begging him to return to her and undo all the pain he has cause.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Un-Break My Heart by Toni Braxton Songfacts )〕 The fifth track "Talking in His Sleep" is about adultery.〔 The sixth track "How Could an Angel Break My Heart" was co-written by Babyface and Braxton and features saxophonist Kenny G.〔 Over a lulling ballad melody, the singer makes her agony a thing of beauty, pausing with daring vocal timing over the lyrics' details of a lover's wayward behavior.〔 "Let It Flow", from the soundtrack to Waiting to Exhale, eventually became a staple of urban contemporary radio.〔 The song is a sultry tune that requires the singer to reach down to her lowest register.〔 In "Why Should I Care", Braxton ascends to a high, breathy croon,〔 while on "I Don't Want To", R. Kelly provides the soft bump-and-grind sound,〔 in a song about a romance in denial,〔 and "I Love Me Some Him" was written by Andrea Martin and Gloria Stewart and produced by Soulshock & Karlin. 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「Secrets (Toni Braxton album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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