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53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics What's this?

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7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings

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  • Summary: Stung by a drug arrest and nasty rumors over the last few years, the diva finally emerges with her first album of new material in four years.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Dot Music
    70
    Amazingly, perhaps, this is a cogent, compact and really quite good record, one that mixes upbeat, perhaps slightly clinical R&B with uber-ballads and occasional snatches of what appears to be an attempt at intimacy.
  2. All Music Guide
    60
    It would be a good standard-issue Whitney album if it wasn't for her disarming, defensive attempt to defuse every rumor hurled in her direction.
  3. Launch.com
    30
    She can still sing--the stories about her losing her range, or her voice itself, are demonstrably false--but that's about the only positive to take away from the mess that is Just Whitney, even though the fault isn't just Whitney's.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 22
  3. Negative: 4 out of 22
  1. samh
    10
    Whitney is the most amazing singer i have ever heard and how people can say anything bad about this album shocks me. In my opinion it is her best. My favourites are Whatchulookinat - i love the beat and its all true, i love the ballads on my own and light up my life and of course unashamed which is so modern. Whitneys the greatest, there will never be another… Expand
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  2. ajanic
    10
    Personally, I thought Whitney's voice was superb and the songs on this cd were some of her absolute best. They all touched my heart and I could feel her strength and spirituality in every word. Love Ya, Whitney.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. cindy
    0
    Worst she has ever done. Very poor. Too much back up-trying to sound like Bobby Brown's girls. SHAME!!! What hapenned to this girls voice???
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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