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I'm Having Fun Now distinguishes itself from Lewis and Rice's solo efforts, or hers with band-on-hiatus Rilo Kiley, by going for a very specific tone.
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Brought together by a shared love of crisp boy-girl harmonies and ultra-hummable, '60s-inspired melodies, they sound Cracker Jack sweet on I'm Having Fun Now even when they're feeling bitter.
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UncutDec 20, 2010Rarely has emotional repression sounded so coy, or so appealing. [Dec 2010, p.86]
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MojoDec 20, 2010I'm Having Fun Now is a musical meeting of minds, sure, but more significantly it's continuing evidence of Lewis's rapid artistic evolution. [Dec 2010, p.98]
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These are love songs with sharp edges that keep the sweetness mysterious.
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Ms. Lewis and Mr. Rice josh and harmonize their way through the album. The songs are upbeat, looking back to folk-rock and 1970s California pop.
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Dec 22, 2010As side projects go, this is one of those that will happily turn left rather than right when climbing onboard that transatlantic flight to you.
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I'm Having Fun Now is a good time for your ears, and hopefully the start of more collaborations between the two lovebirds.
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I'm Having Fun Now is all whimsical, tongue-in-cheek cutesiness, but with songs this sugary, it'd be churlish to complain. Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and singer-songwriter/boyfriend Johnathan Rice have both had their moments of pure-pop confection in the past, but never as crazily delicious as here.
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I'm Having Fun Now is bound to disappoint anyone expecting to peer in on domestic knock-down drag-outs-or anything more sultry than the disinterested S&M play of Slavedriver.
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The album is also a much more modern-sounding pop project, though it similarly owes its success to the chemistry of its creators.
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Dec 22, 2010Jenny 'Rilo Kiley' Lewis, and Jonathan 'Just Recorded Under His Own Name' Rice's brand of folk-indie-pop--jangly guitars, sweetly shared harmonies, echoes of the Deep South--isn't groundbreaking, but probably wasn't supposed to be.
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Dec 22, 2010With the duo sharing vocals and occasionally bickering like Jack and Vera Duckworth, the pair's sound is comfortable – somewhere between 1980s indie jangle pop, 1960s Byrds-type guitar chiming and modern MOR. But the easy-listening melodies hide lyrical bite and references to everything from mental illness to sex with strangers.
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Q MagazineDec 20, 2010Barbed but Gregarious. [Dec 2020, p.110]
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The mood may be dark, but the record is a model of musical egalitarianism.
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Its casualness sometimes surfaces in its tossed-off jokes or sing-song melodies, but that only underscores that Jenny & Johnny are having a good time -- and it's a good time that's easy to share even if one of the hosts doesn't quite hold up his own end of the bargain.
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Unfortunately, without the kinetic energy that spurns the creative process when dealing with such an implicitly sultry concept, it's like Lewis and Rice are merely coasting on their own strengths, leaving the record to fall short on meeting its full potential. [Summer 2010, p.78]
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As a whole, it's not consistently buoyant enough to be a good pop record, and the politics that weigh down its middle section aren't sharp enough to make it into anything more than a middle section weighed down by some obvious politics.
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Oct 25, 2010
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