Bigger Love
by John Legend
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Jun 19, 2020
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. The Independent (UK)
    Jun 19, 2020
    80
    He could easily have served up another full helping of R&B romance, but instead he’s tested himself – something you rarely see in artists of his stature. It’s impressive.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Jun 19, 2020
    70
    Bigger Love, his seventh album, shows off the emerging subtlety of his musical craft and social messaging.
  3. Pitchfork
    Jun 24, 2020
    64
    Bigger Love is rife with this feel-good energy, buoyed by his stately voice and easygoing charm, but beneath its positive exterior is an emptiness that’s hard to ignore.
  5. Clash Music
    Jun 19, 2020
    60
    Playing it safe just a little too often, it finds John Legend in full flow, demonstrating his undeniable versatility – yet it can also appear to be covering the bases, offering breadth for the sake of breadth.
  6. AllMusic
    Jul 9, 2020
    50
    Bigger Love sounds cobbled together compared to Love in the Future and Darkness and Light, two of his most recent and inspired albums, with opportunistic and unconvincing stylistic curveballs, no two tracks sharing the same production credits, and few clear standouts.
  7. The Guardian
    Jun 19, 2020
    40
    The ironic thing is that he knows that a 16-track album of love songs for his wife is too much. As he puts it on Actions: “She don’t want it. She don’t need it.” Who, then, is it all for?
  8. No Ripcord
    Jun 25, 2020
    20
    Every song on here comes from a collaboration from a different source, or a different trend that Legend is hopping on. There’s nothing personal here. ... Bigger Love’s second half has painful trap pop (Don’t Walk Away), plastic soul (Remember Us, Always), and a piano ballad closer with no defining traits or features (Never Break), all in classic John Legend fashion.

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User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. LilScience
    Jan 17, 2022
    7
    John Legend, não teria esse nome sem uma razão, em um álbum romântico e com uma voz admirável, nos traz de volta do que realmente era a músicaJohn Legend, não teria esse nome sem uma razão, em um álbum romântico e com uma voz admirável, nos traz de volta do que realmente era a música soul e r&b, no enfoque nos sentimentos e na voz afável, assim como jogar de corpo e alma na música, como era artistas do tipo de Marvin Gaye e Sam Cooke, realmente 'Bigger Love' conduziu a paixão neste excelente trabalho.

    Faixas favoritas: Ooh Laa, One Life, Wild, Bigger Love, Slow Cooker, Remember Us, I'm Ready e Always .    … Full Review »
  2. RageNate
    Jul 13, 2020
    6
    Worthies (9/16):
    - Actions
    - I Do
    - One Life
    - Bigger Love
    - Favorite Place
    - Focused
    - Don't Walk Away
    - Remember Us
    - Always
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