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A real slog to get through.
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BillboardIt's a very sexually explicit R. Kelly who greets fans on this outing. [2 Jun 2007]
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This is a nutty album, but a pretty single-minded one.
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This album piles on the bump 'n' grind.
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Just as surely as Justin brought sexy back, Kelly is bringing slightly creepy back.
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Those lyrics may seem slightly ridiculous, but between them and his thinly veiled metaphors for his need to perform cunnilingus (Sweet Tooth), Kelly's originality and talent for making instant club hits is un-fucking-deniable.
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Unsaved by anything resembling an acceptable musical hook, Kelly's lyrics are uniformly dumb.
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The reaction Double Up provokes makes you think of the scene from The Producers when the opening night performance of Springtime For Hitler ends and the camera pans on to the audience: open-mouthed, frozen, aghast.
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His tenuous grasp on reality and good taste slips and he plummets into a tawdry, gratuitous and self-congratulatory flurry of misogyny, expletives and reggae.
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In a sense, it seems more apropos to judge Double Up as a comedy record than as a pop record.
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It’s the most consistently entertaining and lasting of R. Kelly’s albums yet.
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One of Kelly’s funniest and funnest records to date.
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Kelly routinely cooks up killer grooves that make his exuberantly stupid lyrics and hackneyed song concepts seem strangely charming.
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BlenderKelly's true genius is the metaphor-laden sex jam, and Double Up has some great ones. [Jul 2007, p.115]
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This is a maddeningly inconsistent collection, with more misses than hits – though Kelly’s best moments do go some way towards atoning for his flaws.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 7 out of 27
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Mar 16, 2022
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ToddW.Aug 1, 2007
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[Anonymous]Jul 15, 2007