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The result is minor Mary--strong by many standards, a bit tepid by hers.
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Stronger With Each Tear, as with most R&B albums, attempts to cover all bases and as such feels a little all over the place. Thankfully, there's enough here to cover the cracks that appear when she's taken out of her comfort zone, which, as much as it shows diversity, seems an odd place to want to leave when the results are often so spectacular.
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Blige's frequent problems with pitch control [on "I Can See in Color"] mar what should have been the album's finest moment. Instead, the song is just indicative of the larger problem with Stronger: None of the elements that actually work ever manage to do so at the same time.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 3 out of 23
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Dec 10, 2013
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Jul 19, 2013