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Q MagazineAug 20, 2013Thicke's record is wonderfully, brilliantly uncool, a ties-round-the-head, Grandma-friendly wedding reception anthem; and there's more where that came from. [Sep 2013, p.101]
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Aug 8, 2013Slick production (including Pharrell, will.i.am and Timbaland) and guest spots from Kendrick Lamar and T.I. distract from all that Lothario shtick enough to make the album a poppy, easy summer listen that grows on you with each play.
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Jul 29, 2013Complete with “hey hey heys” and a cowbell that ensures that even the most resistant listeners will notice the beat, Blurred Lines is music you dance to. The lyrics are the source of most of the trouble.
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Jul 24, 2013The problem's not merely that Thicke has doused himself in too-strong cologne. It's how predictably it all fits with his frictionless boutique-lounge grooves.
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Sep 18, 2013What’s striking is how unambitious most of the rest of the album is, especially the half that’s produced by Mr. Thicke with his longtime production partner Pro-Jay.
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Jul 30, 2013Blurred Lines is a celebration of plasticine funk, warbly bass and plump booties.... Just as often, though, Thicke and his producers, which include himself and collaborators Pro J, Dr. Luke and Timbaland, dip from the cheesier realms of '70s pop.
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Jul 29, 2013It’s an album that discourages sitting still. Too bad the icky lyrics ruin the mood.
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Aug 5, 2013It's not that Thicke can't carry a tune. It's that he thinks that having songs that smoulder with sex appeal a la Luther Vandross, Boyz II Men or Barry White means that you have to degrade woman and boast about how your penis is bigger than the next fella's.
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Jul 30, 2013Double entendres are commonplace in pop, but here he descends into wink-and-nod juvenilia.
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Jul 22, 2013Some of these tunes are passable party pabulum but Thicke is such a total tool that it gets in the way of any fun.
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Jul 22, 2013The music is sunny funk/soul, there are seamless cameos from Pharrell and Kendrick Lamar, and Thicke proves a loose-limbed loverman of a vocalist--but the positive qualities are overshadowed by his blunt-instrument romantic technique.
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Jul 22, 2013Thicke's wheedling tone and sylvan falsetto are engaging enough on this sixth album, though his clumsily backhanded way with a compliment deteriorates as the album proceeds.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 73
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Mixed: 16 out of 73
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Negative: 32 out of 73
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