Lessons In Love
by Lloyd
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. The Guardian
    80
    Lyrically, Polite rarely strays far from a seducer's template, but the way in which he sells the cliche is compelling.
  2. Billboard
    70
    Lloyd still serves up a satisfying sophomore suite.
  3. AllMusic
    60
    Between 'I'm Wit It,' 'Girls,' and a couple other standouts, Lessons and Love cannot be dismissed, but Lloyd will have to really change it up with his fourth album to evade a real holding pattern.
  5. The New York Times
    60
    Unlike its predecessor, which gave Lloyd’s tender alto room to breathe, much of the production here is gooey and distracting, too dense for Lloyd to make a dent in.
  6. Rolling Stone
    60
    Throughout Lessons in Love, Lloyd sounds like he's actually having fun dishing out come-ons, adding an emphatic exuberance to each one.
  7. Boston Globe
    60
    Certainly it's a listenable set--well produced, well-sung and, well, dull.
  8. Entertainment Weekly
    58
    For the most part, this is a bland blur of midtempo grooves and sub-R. Kelly metaphors. [8 Aug 2008]
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  9. Slant Magazine
    50
    Lessons is largely comprised of heavy-beated, midtempo ballads—a trend that is, admittedly, preferable to the schmaltzy AC ballads of the '90s and the drippy baby-makin' jams of the recent past.
  10. PopMatters
    50
    This handful of keepers is unfortunately not enough to redeem what is otherwise an entire record’s worth of vapidity.
  11. Hot Press
    20
    Dismal offering from would-be R&B Lothario, this 14-song supposed sexual odyssey is more like a soundtrack to a day in the life of Mr Bean than Hugh Hefner.

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. DeeE
    Jun 18, 2009
    9
    Good album. Not StreetLove but is consistent with that album as for the content & singing ability. He needs to keep doing what he is doing Good album. Not StreetLove but is consistent with that album as for the content & singing ability. He needs to keep doing what he is doing because he sounds nothing like the trendy young artists of today.… Full Review »
  2. robink.
    Sep 4, 2008
    10
    "Lesson in love" romance, purity,love. For the ladies.
  3. NickR.
    Aug 11, 2008
    6
    It had a lot having to do with sex, but some songs were really good, ya know? Got a 6, because his previous album was really good and this It had a lot having to do with sex, but some songs were really good, ya know? Got a 6, because his previous album was really good and this album is almost that of his previous one.… Full Review »
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