Like Oprah-endorsed best sellers, R&B albums go big on self-expression and personal growth. On her first album for a new label, Mya Harrison talks a lot about liberation. But given the long delay of this record, originally scheduled for release last fall (and the ruthless erasure of flop single “Ayo” from the restructured version), lyrics like “Tonight I’ll be your waitress, your mistress,” sound downright needy. A decade into her career, two songs raise the 27-year-old’s game — the insidious snake-charmer melody of “Walka Not a Talka” and the bracing blast of betrayed-housewife rage of “All in the Name of Love” — while Charli Baltimore and Lil Wayne earn their guest-spot paychecks on “I Am” and “Lock U Down.” Elsewhere, boilerplate slow jams and generic sass paint Mya, her claims to the contrary, as a talka not a walka.

Download: “Walka Not a Talka,” “All in the Name of Love”