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Jun 9, 2023On occasion, the record feels quite lazy in its lyrical direction and yet too direct, falling into moments of cringe rather than what could have been perceived as powerful and fun.
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Jun 8, 2023At only 32 minutes and housing five interludes, The Age of Pleasure is slim on ideas and music. It would be more successful if she followed the same pattern of zinging between genre and form effortlessly like on Dirty Computer, but this record largely sticks to reggae and funk, leading to a slower, more lax mood.
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Jun 8, 2023It’s an album about hedonistic abandon that occasionally makes hedonistic abandon sound like something challenging a therapist has tasked you to do before next week’s session. Then again, the album’s brevity means those moments pass quickly, to be supplanted by moments when Monáe sounds as light and warm as the music behind her.
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Positive: 46 out of 50
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Mixed: 3 out of 50
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Negative: 1 out of 50
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Jun 9, 2023mother has returned. pronouns are they/them, she/her, and freeahhmuthaf*cka. album of the summer fr.
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