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Generally favorable reviews- based on 44 Ratings
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Jun 13, 2017At the time of its release way back in 2009, this album was everything. In hindsight, listening to it in the present day, this album is awful. There are highlights (Parachute, Fight For This Love and Rain on Me0, but they can be overpowered by the album fillers (Heaven, Stand Up).
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Over 11 tracks she fails to pull in a single noteworthy vocal, that's if you can even locate it beneath the waves of effects designed to disguise how very little is actually there.
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Producer Will.I.Am's contributions are, for the most part, utterly bland and lacking in bite. The sanitised R'n'B of Heaven is embarrassing with a generic construction that feels as if he went to a superstore and it took it off the shelf.
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To be fair to the songwriters behind this record, "Make You Cry" is actually the worst thing here - when the sound abandon the '90s and either tries to sound like the '80s ("Heaven" is pure Stock, Aitken, and Waterman), or to be a bit more modern, the quality remains solid. But therein lies the one major flaw of 3 Words - it's simply not consistent enough in terms of sound.