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- Summary: The fourth solo release for the former Destiny's Child singer features guest appearances from Beyoncé, Michelle Williams, Kevin Cossom, Wiz Khalifa, and Pusha-T.
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- Record Label: Republic
- Genre(s): R&B, Contemporary R&B
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This Is Love | |
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Can you describe the moment When two people fall in love? Some say the clouds will spin in circles And the rain will turn to doves The poor will... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 7 out of 12
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Mixed: 4 out of 12
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Negative: 1 out of 12
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Jun 25, 2013By teaming up with some of the best producers in the r&b/hip-hop genre right now, including frequent Drake collaborators T-Minus and Boi-1da, Kelly Rowland has managed to make one of the best sounding r&b albums of the year.
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Entertainment WeeklyJun 19, 2013Rowland serves up a smorgasbord of her triumphant and sometimes profane fourth studio album. [21 Jun 2013, p.68]
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Jun 19, 2013Talk a Good Game is her realness in full flower, an album that balances world-weariness about relationships with infectious dollops of sexual agency, tackling the vagaries of love almost exclusively and offering anthems for experiences that every woman has had (or will have) at some point.
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Jun 19, 2013The album quickly stabilizes with satisfying, if mostly unexciting, material. Other than the lack of European dance-pop, the main difference between this set and Here I Am is the presence of Rowland's most revealing and powerful song, "Dirty Laundry."
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Jul 8, 2013Emotionally raw, [Dirty Laundry is] far more intimate than her sexier songs, proving that her best recipe for success is baring her soul rather than her bedroom secrets.
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Jun 27, 2013Rowland's pendulum has swung away from her Guetta-dance flirtation back to her R&B roots, but this set is still a grab-bag of Janet Jackson homages and bedroom-eyed midtempos on which Rowland's come-hither lyrics remain at odds with her slightly prim delivery.
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Jun 24, 2013["Dirty Laundry" is] so raw and visceral that we finely see her as intended: vulnerable, flawed, and totally real. She tries replicating that authenticity, but there’s only the uber-cliché “I don’t care; we’re over” anthem “Gone” and the album’s superficially enjoyable title track, which Rowland approaches with some intriguing level of nuance.
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Jul 13, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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