Critic Reviews
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Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
These are pop songs in the sense that they deliver their payloads in 90 seconds. But they're also confessional, dark, downtempo--and, OK, a little gauche sometimes, which just makes them seem realer.
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Entertainment Weekly
A fetching collection of pop confections.... ''M!ssundaztood'' captures girlish confusion with greater accuracy and delight than Alanis Morissette's supposed bible of the form, ''Jagged Little Pill."
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All Music Guide
The wild thing is that M!ssundaztood not only works, it works smashingly -- a bewildering amalgam of sounds and attitudes that shouldn't fit together, but defy all odds and do.
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PopMatters
A tougher, funkier, and downright rocking album.... M!ssundaztood deserves to be the pop album of the year.
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E! Online
Recalls other feisty femmes like Alanis Morissette and Cyndi Lauper, and it all comes out lookin' rosy.
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Billboard
A rock-fused, hook-friendly set that ably distances the Philly native from her pop/R&B origins.
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CDNow
Pink continues to work her groove thang on much of Missundaztood, but equal time is given over to some genuine stylistic risk-taking.
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Stylus Magazine
Pink has fought the record companies for control of her career and won- and with the sage advice of producers and executives she has come out with one of the best pop albums of last year.
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Playlouder
There's way too much power balladry, rawk guitar, Steven Tyler and MTV-by-numbers to make a genuinely stand-out record.
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Rolling Stone
Even if her execution isn't up to her ambitions, Missundaztood is more fun than that god-awful "Lady Marmalade" remake.
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Spin
These tunes dig deeper than the musings of, say, Michelle Branch, but none are groundbreaking or revealing enough to suggest that Pink has learned to navigate the space between fluffy and toughie. [Jan 2002, p.108]
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Q Magazine
While the lyrical freedom of Dear Diary, My Vietnam, and Family Portrait is refreshing, stylistically they are less than revolutionary. [Jan 2002, p.105]
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Blender
The melodic shortcomings of M!ssundaztood show that those eye-popping videos aside, she's no Madonna. [#4, p.122]
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Dot Music
Anyone looking for some spicy R'n'B to follow up Pink's fantastic breakthrough hit, 'Most Girls', will be sorely disappointed.
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New Musical Express (NME)
It works for the red-raw confessional 'Family Portrait', but everything else is so bad Natalie Imbruglia would be proud.
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