★★★★★
2013 was a year Robin Charles Thicke won't forget in a hurry. After more than a decade of chipping away at the coalface of loverman R&B with a moderate degree of success, he made it big with Blurred Lines. Blurred Lines was the kind of hit so huge that Thicke will never be able to escape it, regardless of what he does in the rest of his career...
- www.noripcord.com
2014-02-17
★★★★★
Controversy sells records. Just ask Sex Pistols or Frankie Goes To Hollywood... or even US R&B; singersongwriter Robin Thicke. His single Blurred Lines (and its headline-grabbing video, featuring topless girls) has incurred the wrath of moral watchdogs around the globe, who have descried the song as misogynistic and, even worse, a "rape anthem"...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-11-07
★★★★★
Album Collection Before Blurred Lines took the world by storm though - Thicke was known as a bit of a lounge lizard, gifted with a Prince-like soul voice that, while not as wide-ranging as some of the best singers, had a purity to it that provided some classy tunes. This collection sees the five albums released from 2003 to 2011 included - with the debut A Beautiful World a project that took more than three years to finally complete...
- www.music-news.com
2013-10-20
★★★★★
Release Date: July 30 2013 I'm a bit of a sucker for pop/R&B music. Justin Timberlake is actually my favorite artist, due to plenty of reasons, mainly his music itself, and his showmanship. It's hard to find pop/R&B artists who do have substance to them, and who can also make very enjoyable music that is appealing to people but not too watered down...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-02
★★★★★
8
Critical Mass
Release Date: July 30, 2013Label: Star Trak/ Interscope
This is the album that Justin Timberlake is too famous to make in 2013, its musical scope and track lengths modest, its sexual appetite and commercial ambition immodest, its star willing to offer up whatever cheesy line, vocal acrobatic, pop hook or funk groove or electro flourish that it takes to keep you listening...
- www.spin.com
2013-08-13
★★★★★
Robin Thicke's sixth studio release - sharing a name with the uncontested song of summer and its racy video - has more than its share of morally questionable, chauvinistic and sexually over-the-top lyrics. Restraint would serve this album well, but Thicke is here for a good time, in case you couldn't tell. Luckily, slick production (including Pharrell, will.i.am and Timbaland) and guest spots from Kendrick Lamar and T.I...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-08-08
★★★★★
There's a hint of 'always the bridesmaid, never the bride' about Robin Thicke. The unsung 'hero' behind hits for 3T, Brandy and other miscellaneous R&B and pop also-rans, he remained on the periphery of the fame game without ever quite tasting its rewards. Now, he's demanding his chance.
Thicke has styled himself an enfant terrible by way of an industrial-grade makeover - in the 90s, he looked like a tramp - and involving Pharrell Williams in the highly questionable 'Blurred Lines', with its...
- thequietus.com
2013-08-06
★★★★★
Star Trak/Interscope soul man Robin Thicke has released his latest full-length, Blurred Lines. The singer's sixth album in total, the LP is the follow-up to 2011's Love After War. The project packs 14 tracks' worth of original material, including "For the Rest of My Life," "Give It 2 U," "Take It Easy on Me," "Go Stupid 4 U" and the smash-hit title track.
A star-studded array of collaborators join Thicke throughout the set, including 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell Williams and T.I...
- www.djbooth.net
2013-08-01
★★★★★
Robin Thicke Blurred LinesBy Ryan B. PatrickLove it, hate it or tolerate it, silly single "Blurred Lines" is the catchiest earworm of the summer. For years (and five studio albums), singer-songwriter Robin Thicke has been doing his "soulful R&B" shtick in relative "under the pop radar" mode, but one could imagine him secretly seething, wondering what he finally has to do to achieve even a slice of Justin Timberlake's success doing virtually the same thing. Well, in the T.I...
- exclaim.ca
2013-07-31
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