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Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings
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Positive: 13 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 5 out of 19
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Jun 22, 2018
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Apr 12, 2017Hopelessly dull is more like it. All the edgy black leather and alternative PR is a joke, don't waste your time or money. Just go back and listen to The Spirit Room, it has 100 times the balls and passion of this saccharine faux-altpop.
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Apr 14, 2017I had been waiting a long time to hear something new from Michelle Branch, but the Hopeless Romantic album doesn't seem to have anything catchy. The songs all sound kind of the same, and are kind of boring. I was hoping a new Michelle Branch album would have something like Take A Chance On Me, Here We Go Again, Another Sun, or Texas In The Mirror. I guess I'll have to wait a little longer.
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Jul 2, 2020
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May 10, 2021
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Q MagazineApr 12, 2017Lyrics veer from the pessimism of relationship failure to the optimism of new love, underpinned by the worldliness of a woman moving forwards after so many steps backwards. [Jun 2017, p.105]
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Apr 7, 2017Branch’s commitment sells the project as a whole. And for all that’s different, Branch’s longtime lyrical preoccupation, the intense dissection of love lost and found, remains intact.
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Apr 6, 2017Hopeless Romantic has an appealingly cool veneer in addition to a sturdy structure of songs. It comes on so smoothly, it's easy to overlook how the songs quickly sink into the subconscious.