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Dec 16, 2010Winner Stays On will undoubtedly continue their stratospheric rise from the ghetto to the mainstream, but despite flashes of ingenuity, it's a strangely formulaic and over-familiar listen.
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Dec 16, 2010More quality grime would be nice, but Winner Stays On proves Roll Deep are no longer an underground crew trying to make pop: the charts are there for the taking.
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Dec 16, 2010Winner Stays On proves that crossing over needn't be a terrible business.
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MojoDec 23, 2010The One's meditation on the price of fame is especially good value, but the Ace of Base-style of What Do They Know is hard to forgive. [Jan 2011, p.99]
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Dec 16, 2010This album is a tribute to enduring a profoundly underwhelming pop star existence. The banality could be forgiven if it included even one decent hook but alas, no.
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Q MagazineDec 20, 2010An extended celebration of shopping, partying, and exercising youthful hormones. [Dec 2010, p.114]