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Feb 12, 2014Solid, but inconsequential.
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Q MagazineJan 28, 2014Creatively there are signs he's struggling to keep it up. [Feb 2014, p.114]
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Dec 10, 2013It’s the polarizing swing, though, between Kelly’s genius and his flagrant misogyny that makes an album like Black Panties enticing and frustrating in equal measure.
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Dec 10, 2013Kells' voice remains one of the most flexible and inventive instruments in pop, but, even for him, Panties veers too frustratingly between horny and corny.
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Dec 6, 2013Black Panties finds him getting back to his core business with rather less artistic ambition.
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Dec 9, 2013Songs like "Cookie," "Crazy Sex" and "Legs Shakin'" start off as promises of highly skilled sexual attentions, but end up as to-do lists.
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Dec 9, 2013Occasional resemblances to Drake and the-Dream are as blatant as the Isley Brothers and Michael Jackson exercises of Write Me Back. The similarities are so obvious that it's tough to discern if Kelly is acknowledging his younger followers, aiming to beat them at their game, or both.
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Dec 9, 2013The onslaught of bawdy imagery eventually grows tedious, but there's something compelling about witnessing one man's psyche laid so completely bare, a crazed prophet whipped into a frenzy by the ecstasy of his own sin.
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Dec 9, 2013Blunt and crass, 2013’s Black Panties is all about selling nostalgia for a bygone age of hard-body sexist black machismo that Barack Obama is, in his own quiet way, helping to deflate.
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Dec 6, 2013Kelly is best when he is at his most absurd, comical and over-the-top.... Sometimes, the jokes go too far.
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Jan 9, 2014Despite its positives, the album falls far short of the impressive musical peaks of Kelly’s discography.
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Dec 12, 2013Despite flashes of melodic and lyrical inventiveness, production-wise Kelly sounds like he’s chasing innovators The-Dream and Mike WiLL Made It, especially on the strip club tracks.
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Dec 12, 2013Mostly, these are exquisitely constructed slow jams--especially recent single ‘Cookies’, The-Dream-esque ‘Crazy Sex’ and the cashmere-soft, Kelly Rowland duet ‘All The Way’--but the pace becomes stagnant after a while.
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Dec 9, 2013Ultimately, there isn't much to recommend with Black Panties.
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Negative: 16 out of 30
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