1. Kaleido

   7

   I like all the songs, especially "Down to Earth" - which is very personal to him - and the album's very catchy and all the tracks work together. But seriously, the left six tracks are about girls he never had. He should get a little more personal.… Expand

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2. RandomCritic

   4

   Not horrible, but certainly not great either. First, the good: Bieber and his handlers obviously knows who he's catering to. They don�39;t try to reach adults with "mature" constructions, so this debut doesn't seem pretentious at all. In addition, Bieber has a certain boyish charm that makes even the sappier songs endearing. Now the bad: everyone else was here first. There is absolutely nothing original about this album. Also, for a supposed "star", Bieber makes surprisingly few contributions to the album, making it feel more than a bit artificial (although the constant presence of Auto-Tune adds to that). The lyrical quality is fairly low ("I was a playa when I was little, but now I'm bigger" A "playa" of what, Pokemon?), even going so far as to highway-rob the chorus from The Cardigans' "Lovefool" for "Love Me" (much in the style of the god-awful "Whatcha Say", an exercise in how to steal from Imogen Heap's music in all the wrong ways). The production is mostly recycled, but occasionally interesting (mostly on uptempo tracks). All in all, an underwhelming but not totally awful debut resembling the quality of early Rihanna: will you want to drive back up to the store in a rage and demand a refund at the top of your lungs? Probably not. Will you remember it a year from now? Again, no, but it may manage to make multiple cycles on the iPods of squealing teenage girls. We can only hope for the best: Bieber has nowhere to go but up.… Expand

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3. perrrys

   0

   Terrible generic voice, got one song and hated it, worst dollar spent in my life.

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     6 of 6 users said yes

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