★★★★★
Lee DeWyze Live It Up 3/5 Listen To: Me And My Jealousy Skip It: It's Gotta Be Love I hoped and prayed for Lee DeWyze to win American Idol. I thought I had an idea of what his album would sound like. Live It Up is not what he presented on the show. Despite the fact that he is the first Idol to write most of the song, this is your typical Idol winner disc. Lee DeWyze took a very safe route with his first album. Live It Up is going to please a lot of his female fans from the show...
- www.tangiblesounds.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
I don't blame RCA for trying to put Lee DeWyze's debut album as soon as possible after the "American Idol" tour and before the new season of the competition. This past year was far from the strongest from an audience standpoint for the hit FOX show...
- www.hitfix.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
As Lee DeWyze discovers on his first album after winning "American Idol," his career is no longer entirely his own. That's the case with every would-be artist who survives the annual popularity contest. They are inevitably squeezed through a music-industry processor that weeds out all the quirks and eccentricities that once might've made a singer compelling...
- leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
Lee DeWyze's debut album Live It Up suffers from vague production that strips his Adam Duritz-y growl of all humor, anger, and sexuality. It's also saddled with a batch of tunes that are so totally generic, the font color for this review should be beige. Only one song here, "Me and My Jealousy," truly showcases the coolly disaffected potential rock star who won what's widely regarded as the weakest-ever season of American Idol.
- ew.com
2010-11-15
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