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Oct 19, 2016JoJo’s collection of soulful slow jams and dark, contemporary R&B head-bobbers is uneven. The latter category has more misses (the generic “Vibe.”) than hits (the flawless first single, “F— Apologies.”), but the stirring piano ballads that bookend the standard edition more than make up for that.
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Oct 27, 2016While JoJo sounds great on big ballads and floor-filling tracks alike, Mad Love. lacks a cohesive sound. The abrupt genre shifts are jarring at turns, but paradoxically it’s this malleability that should be key to JoJo’s continued success.
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Oct 19, 2016This is solid restart. JoJo displays more than a decade's worth of growth here as a writer and singer.
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Nov 3, 2016It’s an accomplished if somewhat safe set of songs; a JoJo on the cusp of finding her range.
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Q MagazineOct 19, 2016It's all slick, sassy and infectious, but she's clearly capable of being much more besides. [Dec 2016, p.109]
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Oct 19, 2016While there are flashes of brilliance--the pulsating Alessia Cara duet I Can Only; the bolshy strut of Fab-- too many songs feel dated or unable to properly showcase JoJo’s raw vocal (opener Music is trampled under the emotional weight).
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Positive: 118 out of 128
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Mixed: 4 out of 128
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Negative: 6 out of 128
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