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7.0
72298
7.0 |
All Music
The blend of strength of personality and music-biz savvy on Title shows that Meghan Trainor is clever enough to parlay a big hit into a real career
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6.5
72659
6.5 |
Beardfood
It's funky! That's right, pop music can be funky
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6.0
72531
6.0 |
The Observer
Sung like 21st-century R&B, but imagined in the milk bars of the early 60s, where the Shirelles reigned supreme
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6.0
72621
6.0 |
Digital Spy
Taken at face value it's an enjoyable record, but don't expect anything to go much deeper than that bass
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6.0
72296
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Sass and self-empowerment
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6.0
72504
6.0 |
The Irish Times
While it’s fun, it runs out of steam over the course of an album
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6.0
72527
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Her sound is a suitably bouncy mix of calypso, doo-wop and earthy bursts of hip hop bass, a combination at once wholesome and filthy
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5.0
72630
5.0 |
The Music
When the alchemy falters you can glimpse the dissonance beneath the sheen: bowdlerised lyrics, self-contradiction, the sense of a neutered, confused adolescence
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5.0
72295
5.0 |
Slant Magazine
This blue-eyed soul is ultimately just pale
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4.0
72530
4.0 |
The FT
US singer channels pre-feminist time warp of 50 years ago via catchy retro-soul and doo-wop
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4.0
72521
4.0 |
Q
Pre-teens might enjoy the relationship advice. Print edition only
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4.0
72297
4.0 |
Spin
Only the late Amy Winehouse managed to escape the retro-soul, big-band trap that OutKast ("Hey Ya!") and Cee Lo ("Fuck You") didn't even try squeeze a second novelty smash from
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4.0
72437
4.0 |
The Digital Fix
Bubblegum pop should and could, aim higher. Lorde and Taylor Swift have nothing to fear
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4.0
72500
4.0 |
The Guardian
Come for catchy hooks sung in an affected southern accent, not for insightful and, intimate songwriting
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3.3
73009
3.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
The singles are where Trainor shines, but there’s little else to take in
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