from www.pridesource.com – Colton Ford has balls – and maybe you’ve seen them. But that’s besides the point, because this pair is the kind needed to ambitiously take on newer pop songs like Alicia Key’s “No One” and Mariah Carey’s “It’s Like That” with the bravado of, say, someone who used to screw for money.

Ford, a former porn star who released his debut in 2008, is that hairy-chested man, and he gives us an even hairier dance disc of cover songs that flaunt his iTunes most-played list, from Sade to Nirvana and Babyface.

It doesn’t do much else, and how could it? These songs are current or classic – and every bit an “American Idol” judge’s worst nightmare, making it hard to see this as more than a self-serving project. Britney Spears might be his biggest asset, as he manages to tackle her B-side club song “Trouble” with the least bit of camp and the most success. Still, most of “Covers” is an amateur hack-job, cut with the corniest and funniest of a cappella interludes. None of it does justice to anyone involved – least of all Ford, a pretty decent singer. But even with a voice, the hodge-podgy bunch of untouchables on “Under the Covers” probably should’ve stayed there.

Grade: D