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Sep 5, 2013One of the most purely enjoyable albums of the year, powered by her lithe, Broadway-honed voice and a canny exploitation of her most "adult" indulgence: nostalgia.
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Sep 5, 2013Ariana Grande's debut LP is a surprisingly varied affair for a 20-year-old Nickelodeon star with a devastatingly strong voice.
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Sep 12, 2013Minor missteps aside, Yours Truly is ultimately an impressive debut for Grande.
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Sep 5, 2013[A] surprisingly strong album.
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Sep 5, 2013Thankfully, Grande has the chops to pull it off, and Yours Truly makes the most of her talent.
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Sep 6, 2013This might be the most inviting pop record of 2013, with a bubbly ebullience that makes even its most familiar moves feel fresh.
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Oct 9, 2013Yours Truly is more tempered and less likely to put you in a beaming state of catatonia.
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Sep 25, 2013A relatively safe debut where much of the takeaway is the salivating at Grande’s potential.
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Sep 23, 2013Yours Truly is a very safe record. Mostly written by two of R&B's most mawkish hawkers, Babyface and Harmony Samuels, it’s built on cliché and tradition, and written professionally to a fault.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 1,106 out of 1334
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Mixed: 60 out of 1334
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Negative: 168 out of 1334
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