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Sep 14, 2011So, Own the Night is mood music but the aim isn't amorous; it's nothing more than a spot of relaxation, which doesn't quite amount to compelling listening no matter how immaculate the execution.
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Sep 12, 2011For every well-placed mandolin run or B-3 organ riff, there's something equally tacky to balance things out.
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Oct 11, 2011While the average age of Lady Antebellum's members is a relatively youthful 28, Own The Night is purposely old-fashioned, even geriatric.
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Sep 30, 2011Raucous boot-stompers kick up the dust around soppy slowies, with many a chorus dripping with the sort of gooey gobbledygook that typifies a thousand rom-coms.
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Sep 30, 2011Own the Night is mainly notable for the way it papers over emotional cracks (As You Turn Away: "No, we can't be friends/ I don't think I can take seeing you and knowing where we've been") with beige wallpaper.
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Sep 12, 2011Pumping up country's boy-girl duet tradition in a trio format, but largely minus grit or wit, Lady Antebellum's follow-up to their Grammy-gobbling Need You Now is a set of heart-squishing power ballads and airbrushed twang rockers ready to woo Walmart shoppers.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 24
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Mixed: 2 out of 24
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Negative: 2 out of 24
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Oct 4, 2011
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Feb 15, 2012
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Feb 1, 2012