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Although there are no ballads as moving as "Hello," "Truly," or "Say You, Say Me," the album does offer a nice collection of pop tracks that, for the most part, don't suffer from the stiflingly bland over-production that's characterized other adult-contemporary albums of recent years.
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This is unabashedly slick adult contemporary fare -- file between Eric Clapton's work with Babyface and the last Tina Turner album -- but Richie can still write and sing the hell out of a get-you-right-there-where-it-hurts ballad...
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Entertainment WeeklyMore a retread than a renaissance. [3/23/2001, p.114]
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Renaissance is about as substantive, lyric-wise, as a Hallmark card.
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It's painful to hear such floundering work by a performer who listeners know can do better.