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The Real Thing: Words And Sounds Vol. 3 Image
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The third album for the soul singer.

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Hate On Me
If I could give you the world On a silver platter Would it even matter You'd still be mad at me If I could find in all this A dozen roses Which I... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Through almost as many producers as Mary, this album has a single identity, a contour and a groove that suits its well-inhabited breakup concept.
  2. Mojo
    80
    It is her most intense, but perhaps also her most pleasurable excursion yet. [Jan 2008, p.104]
  3. Uncut
    80
    Upping the tempo-and libido of her Grammy-winning "Beautifully Human," here Scott lays the funky paramaters wide open. Jan 2008, p.100]
  4. Scott weaves through the music like a woman who's taken her time contemplating what feelings ought to sound like.
  5. These songs sound like they were written as she was fed chocolate-dipped strawberries while sprawled out on a bed cloaked with rose petals.
  6. Scott's music is more about groove and mood than song.
  7. Q Magazine
    60
    It's a bedroom album, albeit an intelligent, challenging one. [Jan 2008, p.110]

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