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For the most part, Ms. Knowles does more reinventing than revisiting.
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83A solo album to put all solo albums to shame.
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80Her reach is remarkable. [Aug 2003, p.120]
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The first half is good enough to make Dangerously in Love one of the best mainstream urban R&B records released in 2003.
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80The best evidence of Ms. B's growth as an artist (and woman) is seen in the ballads and mid-tempo tracks.
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One of the most refreshing modern R&B records from a diva-ascendant in a long time.
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60Before descending without hope of return into the treacle swamp of R&B ballad hell that beckons at the halfway point, 'Dangerously In Love' offers a few passable moments.
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60It's not so much that the most singularly talented and important soul singer of now has let us down, more she's tried too hard to please. [Sep 2003, p.105]
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60She has good songs, but no great songs. [Aug 2003, p.105]
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While she oozes charisma and has a fine voice, Beyonce isn't in a class with the likes of Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey as a singer. [24 Jul 2003, p.86]
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60At times... Dangerously In Love sounds desperate to reach every demographic. [Aug 2003, p.150]
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Not, by any means, a disaster. More a cruel glimpse of a talent that occasionally blazes but is frustratingly inconsistent.
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Unfortunately, the rest of Dangerously in Love is only intermittently sexy.
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40Hugely disappointing.
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40Things degenerate into a dreary stream of self-pitying/self-mythologising ballads. [Sep 2003, p.106]
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Beyoncé never met a ballad she didn't like. Out of Dangerously in Love's 14 tracks, a staggering eight are the kind of overwrought, no-tempo love songs even Toni Braxton has the sense to avoid.
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