★★★★★
This is on the Warped Tour this year? Really? Detroit, Michigan is a rough-edged rock'n'roll town that puts wussy marshmallow pop like this to the fire and eats it while it's still smoking. Syrupy MTV hip-pop for terrible tweens is the MO of this album debut, and I'd pin the lack of imagination on wilful derivation were it not for the fact that Posner has re-set the bar for music that is so weak it can't even lift the envelope, never mind push it.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
As advanced recording and editing technology has become more readily accessible, and as social networking media have made international levels of exposure a possibility for just about anyone, there has been a proliferation of self-made music stars. While there are dozens of nonstarters like Tay Zonday for every Lily Allen, there's a real sense that the so-called playing field has been leveled...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
The sly electro-pop kiss-off "Cooler than Me," may have already garnered Mike Posner his 15 minutes. But the 22-year-old Michigan native ? whisked from dorm-room mixtape star to major-label signee the summer before his senior year at Duke ? asks for approximately twice that allotted time on his (barely) full-length debut, 31 Minutes to Takeoff...
- ew.com
2010-08-06