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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.
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Certainly it's a listenable set--well produced, well-sung and, well, dull.
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Entertainment WeeklyFor the most part, this is a bland blur of midtempo grooves and sub-R. Kelly metaphors. [8 Aug 2008]
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This handful of keepers is unfortunately not enough to redeem what is otherwise an entire record’s worth of vapidity.
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Throughout Lessons in Love, Lloyd sounds like he's actually having fun dishing out come-ons, adding an emphatic exuberance to each one.
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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.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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DeeEJun 18, 2009
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robink.Sep 4, 2008"Lesson in love" romance, purity,love. For the ladies.
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NickR.Aug 11, 2008