Memphis Blues
by Cyndi Lauper
  • Record Label: Downtown
  • Release Date: Jun 22, 2010
Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. Billboard.com
    77
    Everyone knows this girl just wants to have fun, but Cyndi Lauper means business on her new album, Memphis Blues, a guest-studded trip toward Beale Street.
  2. Mojo
    Dec 20, 2010
    60
    Apart from the odd incongruous squawk or squeal, she handles blues standards like How Blue Can You Get, Romance In The dark and Wild Women Don't Get The Blues with real empathy. [Dec 2010, p.108]
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  3. The Guardian
    60
    Though her voice is thin and lacking in bluesy grit and sinew – this is especially evident as she alternates lines with feline, growling guest Ann Peebles on Rollin' and Tumblin' – she gets inside the songs, and that makes the album work.
  5. Boston Globe
    60
    Of all her detours, Memphis Blues' feels the most misguided. It's a pet project, and might actually sound terrific if rendered live in a cozy jazz joint.
  6. AllMusic
    50
    In the end, while Memphis Blues does have some fine moments, the uneven ones makes it feel like a squandered opportunity at a popular comeback.
  7. Slant Magazine
    40
    Memphis Blues is a disappointment because it doesn't play to Lauper's considerable strengths. She remains a vocalist of phenomenal depth and power, but she sounds lost in this material and in these arrangements.
  8. Uncut
    Dec 20, 2010
    20
    Lauper's teeth-itching screech does no favours to the likes of :Shattered Dreams," "Down So Low" and "Crossroads." [Dec 2010, p.98]
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  9. Q Magazine
    Dec 20, 2010
    20
    It makes her Christmas album look like OK Computer. Horrible. [Dec 2010, p.112]
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Awards & Rankings

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#79 Most Discussed Album of 2010

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User Score
5.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 36
  3. Negative: 16 out of 36
  1. heike-makatsch
    Feb 24, 2017
    1
    this is what you call a "dreadful comeback", there's no any point to get to know if this material is exactly what she really wanted tothis is what you call a "dreadful comeback", there's no any point to get to know if this material is exactly what she really wanted to develop. also, there is no idea about doing things just for the sake of it.… Full Review »
  2. diamanda_op
    Mar 9, 2017
    0
    nothing's ok. i'v been doing thw effort to give it an opportunity, but is not enough to get to get to like.

    there's such a mixed tracks    nothing's ok. i'v been doing thw effort to give it an opportunity, but is not enough to get to get to like.

    there's such a mixed tracks that makes it hard to your ears.    … Full Review »
  3. amanda_lepore3
    Mar 9, 2017
    0
    this is not a pretty good work.

    there's a lot hindrances to get to known if the songs can be confirmed by itself, the only remarkable thing    this is not a pretty good work.

    there's a lot hindrances to get to known if the songs can be confirmed by itself, the only remarkable thing here is her voice.    … Full Review »
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