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In the end, Curtis is entertaining but only impressive in that 50 can run in place and still be on top.
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The I-need-love pop tunes are not getting any better, even with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake in the stripper ditty 'AYO Technology.' 'Follow My Lead” is an inexplicable Robin Thicke duet and 'Amusement Park' is even sillier. Much better is 'All of Me,' with Mary J. Blige. Wailing, "I got a feeling like I'm fiending on crack," Blige steals the show without even trying.
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It's a solid performance, that is both better and worse than it could have been.
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It's a solidly above-average rap record, featuring a generous handful of very likeable songs and only two unqualified duds.
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Curtis seems surprisingly modest. The album is neither as contagious as "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" (apparently it's possible to have an entire album stuck in your head) nor as devious as "The Massacre."
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Curtis is stuffed with tightly wound 21st-century pop songwriting, full of that invisible craft and flow that renders a thing eminently listenable even if it's gratuitously raunchy, politically reprehensible, and sexually retrograde.
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Entertainment WeeklyIn the end, Curtis is nothing more than a competent corporate product. [21 Sep 2007, p.84]
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What the two boil down to is that a parvenu mastering pop music for money has turned into a made man running on vanity. I find that this renders his expert trivialization of murder and such rather less piquant, and I think he does too--that an audacious formal delight has become routine.
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Nothing on Curtis is great, but everything is listenable or better.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 73 out of 208
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Mixed: 25 out of 208
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Negative: 110 out of 208
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Jan 10, 2012
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JeremyW.Nov 27, 2007Definitely not as good as his previous albums, a few memorable tracks then lots of filler. Nothing new here.