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Memphis Blues
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45

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

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5.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: Superstar of the early MTV era, Cyndi Lauper is still a girl who just wants to have fun on her new album, featuring her unique style of sultry singing and guest appearances by BB King and Jonny Lang.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. Billboard.com
    77
    Everyone knows this girl just wants to have fun, but Cyndi Lauper means business on her new album, Memphis Blues, a guest-studded trip toward Beale Street.
  2. The Guardian
    60
    Though her voice is thin and lacking in bluesy grit and sinew – this is especially evident as she alternates lines with feline, growling guest Ann Peebles on Rollin' and Tumblin' – she gets inside the songs, and that makes the album work.
  3. Mojo
    Dec 20, 2010
    60
    Apart from the odd incongruous squawk or squeal, she handles blues standards like How Blue Can You Get, Romance In The dark and Wild Women Don't Get The Blues with real empathy. [Dec 2010, p.108]
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  4. AllMusic
    50
    In the end, while Memphis Blues does have some fine moments, the uneven ones makes it feel like a squandered opportunity at a popular comeback.
  5. Slant Magazine
    40
    Memphis Blues is a disappointment because it doesn't play to Lauper's considerable strengths. She remains a vocalist of phenomenal depth and power, but she sounds lost in this material and in these arrangements.
  6. Q Magazine
    Dec 20, 2010
    20
    It makes her Christmas album look like OK Computer. Horrible. [Dec 2010, p.112]
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  7. Uncut
    Dec 20, 2010
    20
    Lauper's teeth-itching screech does no favours to the likes of :Shattered Dreams," "Down So Low" and "Crossroads." [Dec 2010, p.98]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 9 out of 11
  1. Haandy
    Feb 14, 2022
    10
    Meu Deus detonaram o album da mulher, tudo porq ela saiu da zona de conforto
  2. cesarc1989
    Sep 10, 2010
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a decent come back, but with all the buzz made by her comercial relationship with Gaga and The Apprentice she would have done something way better to stablish herself again as an influential music figure. 6.5… Expand
  4. heike-makatsch
    Feb 24, 2017
    1
    this is what you call a "dreadful comeback", there's no any point to get to know if this material is exactly what she really wanted tothis is what you call a "dreadful comeback", there's no any point to get to know if this material is exactly what she really wanted to develop. also, there is no idea about doing things just for the sake of it.… Expand
  5. dcfeee
    Mar 9, 2017
    0
    it's funny because she can handle a blue, the songs don't give us something to like, it's just made of the sake ofit's funny because she can handle a blue, the songs don't give us something to like, it's just made of the sake of it......................................… Expand
  6. adsdsad
    Mar 9, 2017
    0
    Apart from the odd incongruous squawk or squeal, she handles blues standards like How Blue Can You Get, Romance In The dark and Wild WomenApart from the odd incongruous squawk or squeal, she handles blues standards like How Blue Can You Get, Romance In The dark and Wild Women Don't Get The Blues with real empathy. [Dec 2010, p.108]… Expand
  7. MatiasZamo_
    Aug 19, 2017
    0
    Pobresita 45yndi al menos hay que apoyarla en User Score y como una es la mua tiene q escribir lo que le salga de la mente obvia 45yndi es unPobresita 45yndi al menos hay que apoyarla en User Score y como una es la mua tiene q escribir lo que le salga de la mente obvia 45yndi es un fracaso en todo y 18onna es mejor en toda obvia mmmmm… Expand
  8. beto102
    Jun 7, 2017
    0
    ME me!nk con esta Cyndi de álbum, lleno de basura, pareciera que Myertyndi quiere seguir siendo una OHW esclava de Pellejonna y LadyME me!nk con esta Cyndi de álbum, lleno de basura, pareciera que Myertyndi quiere seguir siendo una OHW esclava de Pellejonna y Lady Hermafrodita. Aska total.… Expand

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