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Oct 21, 2011Clarkson's older-better-tougher-smarter album.
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Oct 24, 2011Certainly, part of the variety is down to the multitude of producers and writers on Stronger, but the album's success is entirely due to Kelly Clarkson, whose personality and professionalism turns it into her best album since her Breakaway breakthrough in 2004.
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Oct 24, 2011Essentially everything here involves Ms. Clarkson's clobbering her subject while getting clobbered with guitars.
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Oct 24, 2011With the exception of the obvious electronic manipulation used on "Mr. Know It All," Clarkson's performances on Stronger are more consistently lived-in and evocative than on any of her previous efforts.
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Oct 21, 2011She's not Katy Perry, not yet Carrie Underwood. But look out.
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Nov 17, 2011On her fifth album she mercifully avoids the monotonous dance-pop trend in favour of a timeless pop-rock sound that occasionally flirts with the dance floor.
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Oct 25, 2011As on her past albums, not all the songs on Stronger are worthy of what Clarkson brings to them vocally.
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Oct 25, 2011Clarkson remains a slightly wearying one-note artist--she's a wounded lover, bellowing her pain and scorching the earth. But wow--that voice.
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Nov 1, 2011The album suffers from a heavily produced electro-sheen, and ends up feeling more manufactured than magical.
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Oct 28, 2011So while Stronger has its redeeming moments, they mostly come when Clarkson does what she is renowned for doing and has already done better. It is a little too heavy on the balladry and serious tones, which are the same things that doomed her other two slightly lesser received albums.
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Oct 21, 2011Despite the references to Nietzsche and Einstein, which suggest a cachet Stronger doesn't deserve, this is simply an overlong string of standard putdown R&B and bogus emotional turmoil, the songs blitzed with generic power-ballad overkill.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 92 out of 149
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Mixed: 11 out of 149
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Negative: 46 out of 149
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Feb 8, 2012
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Oct 24, 2011
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Aug 30, 2013