It was obvious that the third time was not the charm for Ciara with her album, Fantasy Ride, failing to become a success on the charts. Despite it being one of her better albums the buzz was killed after all the leaks and many push-backs. So recently Ciara has been out in LA with a lot of arranged paparazzi run-ins and it seemed like she was trying to become the next media muse or something. Well news was released this morning that the main reason for her relocation is so she could begin work on her fourth untitled album.

Ciara has been laying low as of late, but for good reason. The R&B singer is well into recording her fourth album and we’ve got the exclusive details.

Christopher “Tricky” Stewart and his songwriting partner The-Dream have been secretly spending the summer in the studio producing the entire follow-up to Ciara’s Fantasy Ride. Stewart broke the news to Rap-Up.com in an exclusive interview. “We’re doing the whole project,” he reveals. “We’re pretty good into it at this point. We’re about 14 songs deep right now.”

The 23-year-old ATLien relocated to the West Coast to work on the album with Tricky and Dream, who crafted “High Price” and “Like a Surgeon” off this year’s Fantasy Ride. “She came out to L.A. to work with us. We’re out here making this record ’cause it feels good and the vibe is good,” says the Grammy-winning producer.

The as-yet-untitled effort will feature danceable tracks that have become Ciara’s signature. “This record obviously is gonna have tempo to it, but I think it’s gonna have even more substance than the last record,” Tricky discloses. “She dances and we always want to bring out what she does that other people don’t.”

Although Fantasy Ride boasted collaborations with a who’s who of the industry including Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, and Ludacris, the “Love Sex Magic” singer will be riding solo this time. “This album we wanted to take a few steps back and make it more about her, so the only feature is Dream. But the features that we do on this record will be remixes.”

The hitmaker even shared a couple song titles with Rap-Up.com. “I love ‘Speechless.’ I love this record called ‘Gifted.’ Those are two of my favorites. ‘Speechless’ is the record with her and Dream together.”

While there’s still the possibility of a release by the end of the year, it’s looking like 2010 will mark Super C’s return. “It’s a little up in the air, but there’s a chance that it might come this year. That was the goal, but at the same time, we didn’t want to rush anything. I think it’s looking more like a next year thing.”

Ciara is pulling out all the stops to make this her best work yet. “Right now, she’s on her grind, coming back, trying to make a better album than she made last time and get back to that mark where everybody knew that she was in the top tier of the female business.” [SOURCE]

…another album that The-Dream and Tricky Stewart are producing and writing in its entirety. Whilst this may be good the duo are slowly becoming Timbaland; oversaturating the radio waves until the public becomes sick of them. There is no question the album will be decent but at this point Ciara really needs to save herself because unfortuantely, the music consumers today have a very limited span as to what is good music; they only know Rihanna or Beyoncé. She really needs to stay ahead of the curb. We like Ciara and many others do but we’re not enough to keep Ciara afloat so she really needs to make an exciting album and have her team not sabotage her project by leaking the entire thing well before its release.