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Jul 9, 2020Bigger Love sounds cobbled together compared to Love in the Future and Darkness and Light, two of his most recent and inspired albums, with opportunistic and unconvincing stylistic curveballs, no two tracks sharing the same production credits, and few clear standouts.
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Jun 19, 2020Playing it safe just a little too often, it finds John Legend in full flow, demonstrating his undeniable versatility – yet it can also appear to be covering the bases, offering breadth for the sake of breadth.
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Jun 25, 2020Every song on here comes from a collaboration from a different source, or a different trend that Legend is hopping on. There’s nothing personal here. ... Bigger Love’s second half has painful trap pop (Don’t Walk Away), plastic soul (Remember Us, Always), and a piano ballad closer with no defining traits or features (Never Break), all in classic John Legend fashion.
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Jun 24, 2020Bigger Love is rife with this feel-good energy, buoyed by his stately voice and easygoing charm, but beneath its positive exterior is an emptiness that’s hard to ignore.
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Jun 19, 2020Bigger Love, his seventh album, shows off the emerging subtlety of his musical craft and social messaging.
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Jun 19, 2020The ironic thing is that he knows that a 16-track album of love songs for his wife is too much. As he puts it on Actions: “She don’t want it. She don’t need it.” Who, then, is it all for?
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Jun 19, 2020He could easily have served up another full helping of R&B romance, but instead he’s tested himself – something you rarely see in artists of his stature. It’s impressive.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17
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Jul 13, 2020Worthies (9/16):
- Actions
- I Do
- One Life
- Bigger Love
- Favorite Place
- Focused
- Don't Walk Away
- Remember Us
- Always