I Love You
by Amanda Blank
  • Record Label: Downtown
  • Release Date: Aug 4, 2009
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. AllMusic
    60
    Unfortunately, despite a few great tracks and plenty of pounding productions, Blank hits a lot of familiar notes.
  2. Rolling Stone
    60
    On an album where she's surrounded by dudes (including her pal Spank Rock), she makes being ladylike sound hardcore.
  3. Spin
    50
    Hey, if the Spank Rock and M.I.A. collaborator wants to two-step around in just a tank top, rude bits to the wind, that’s her prerogative--but there are consequences, and that’s where I Love You struggles.
  5. Sputnikmusic
    50
    Blank by the numbers, blank’s the result.
  6. NOW Magazine
    60
    When she strays into pop territory, her lyrics and vocals remind us of electroclash’s cheesiest moments. When she keeps it raw and downtempo, real talent shines through.
  7. Boston Globe
    50
    Her new album does nothing new--we've been here before.
  8. Q Magazine
    40
    Though Blank's album is full of hits and misses, it's rarely dull. [Aug 2009, p.103]
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  9. Mojo
    60
    It's the songs on which she distances herself from that occasionally tiresome persona where she really shines. [Aug 2009, p.94]
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  10. Prefix Magazine
    40
    The album isn’t just undone by Blank’s well-worn playbook of sexualized shtick, however; the tiresome music is just an egregious.
  11. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    60
    Filthy Philly rapstress ropes in famous mates, but falls short of rap superstardom.

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