SPRING ALBUM ROUNDUP : SOFT-CORE BUBBLE GUM

“SKIN ON SKIN.” Vanity. Motown.

Rate this one DD: Dumb and Dirty. The one-time Prince protege continues to offer herself as a filthy-talking, submissive plaything. This time out, though, the soft core consists of bubble gum, with some of the silliest lyrics this side of “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.” The songs--all written by men--play to male fantasies, the worst case being “Ouch,” in which the singer begs for pain from her sex partner. Musically, the range goes from “Animals,” an upbeat Prince rip-off, to generic funk and R&B.; And, like the title says, all the glossy layers put down by producers Skip Drinkwater and Tommy Faragher only amount to skin on skin.