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As it is, Doo-Wops & Hooligans is an uneven debut that shows why Mars is likeable and popular, but doesn't tap into his full potential as a writer or producer.
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Q MagazineMar 29, 2011Mostly, he has little to say. [Mar 2011, p.109]
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It's the year's finest pop debut: 10 near-perfect songs that move from power ballads to bedroom anthems to pop-reggae and deliver pleasure without pretension.
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Jan 19, 2011Mars has quite remarkably extracted themes from every one of those shows [The X-Factor], incorporating each into his debut, from glossy, over-sentimental ballads (Talking To The Moon) to an all-out, shameless dispatching of joy (Marry Song).
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Jan 20, 2011Frustratingly, Doo-Wops & Hooligans ends by suggesting it could have been far more interesting than it is.
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Jan 10, 2011This fulfilling 10 track album has very few holes, and if this is just a taste of what he has in the vaults for either himself or for other artists, he should be racking up some Grammy's shortly.
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Hooligans proves that this onetime background player makes a pretty solid first banana.
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Doo-Wops & Hooligans kicks up no fuss, and shortchanges on its promise of both doo-wop and hooliganism.
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Dec 21, 2010Cutesy lyrics with insipid rhymes like "You can count on me like one, two, three" abound on songs that play out less like a cohesive album and more like no-brainer radio references to Coldplay, U2, Michael Jackson, Sade, Feist and so on.
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Oct 25, 2010While promising, though, the disc reveals little about Mars - other than that he clearly has his eyes on the charts.
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Jan 20, 2011The slushy sentiments will click with a tweenager in the throes of a first crush--but anyone with life and love experience beyond passing notes around at the back of class is advised to pass on this collection of monochrome musings in favour of something with a heartbeat. Perhaps, even, something that rocks.
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Jan 25, 2011Aside from the odd pervy foray however, Doo-Wops & Hooligans is a fairly impressive pop record; packed full of guaranteed arena fillers, it's an album that's literally born to be big.
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Jan 27, 2011What makes this a really exciting debut, however, is the Kanye West-style genre-bending on Grenade, The Other Side and Our First Time, which joins the dots between between Michael Jackson and Bob Marley.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 142 out of 215
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Mixed: 29 out of 215
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Negative: 44 out of 215
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