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31 Minutes' breezy B-boy anthems may keep the man of the half hour around well past Labor Day.
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He sounds as unflappable as the subject of his first hit.
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The better surprise is his heavy dose of talent that doesn't necessarily dazzle but does charm, and is deep enough to keep things interesting for a whole album.
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Think Justin Timberlake's less-talented cousin, or Andy Samberg.
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Posner's B-boy sound may be derivative as hell, but the album stands to turn him into the latest DIY sensation.
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Mike Posner is at the head of a new genre: frat-house R&B.
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This short, lightweight disc finds Posner evolving from his hip-hop leaning early mixtapes into a nasal-voiced talk-singer with some serious woman issues. Mostly, though (unlike, say, Kid Cudi), his lyrics barely scratch the surface of real emotions.
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He toggles between petulant cad ("Gone in September") and wounded child ("Save Your Goodbye"), convincing at neither. He has a grating voice, heavily nasal, with a seeming inability to wrap his lips around all of the necessary syllables, meaning that even when he's at his angriest, he sounds as if he's holding back.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 29
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Mixed: 4 out of 29
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Negative: 9 out of 29
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Sep 23, 2010
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Aug 14, 2010
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Nov 14, 2019