• Record Label: S-Curve
  • Release Date: Jul 8, 2008
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. 60
    She’s more geeky than queenly anyway, ­jazzily singing and breezily rapping over buoyant reggae and soul throwback beats sculpted by a guy named Adam who previously worked with American Idol finalist Elliott Yamin.
  2. 50
    Only in the fire-hydrant-ready title cut, where an around-the-way girl reminisces about bodegas in Bed-Stuy, does Coppola seem like more than a confessional folkie playing funky dress-up.
  3. For the most part, The Stoop is a tuneful if beige Ronson-esque production, set against clever-lyrics-for-stupid-people.
  4. Q Magazine
    60
    Coppola resurrects her pop carrer as Little Jackie alongside DJ/Producer Adam Pallin, who adds hip-hop beats and faux-motown gloss to her R&B tunes. [Oct 2008, p.147]
  5. It's definitely a bright, funny, clever record on the surface, and one so jam-packed with tunes that it'll probably take this country by storm. But plumb its depths, and you realise Coppola is watering down her idiosyncrasies, both lyrically and musically, when she takes pot shots at others.
  6. Described as bittersweet feel-good music, The Stoop does pop music with a capital P--in wolf's clothing.
  7. While the rhymes are frustratingly clunky at times ('What came first, the Chicken Nugget or the Egg McMuffin?'), her charisma ensures the result is rarely less than compelling.
  8. Unfortunately, Coppola hasn’t got Winehouse’s writing or vocal chops and Pallin clearly lacks Ronson’s knowledge of hit song construction.
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Ls
    Sep 19, 2008
    10
    This album has a great flow. Upbeat, lots of old school throwbacks, good beats.
  2. ArdenC.
    Jul 20, 2008
    10
    Excellent. Coppola usually hops from genre to genre but here she settles down on one sound and it works very well. I do hope her next album Excellent. Coppola usually hops from genre to genre but here she settles down on one sound and it works very well. I do hope her next album is something completely different, though. Full Review »