 Upon its release , Back to Basics : Live and Down Under garnered mainly positive feedback from music critics . Jake Meaney for PopMatters gave it a seven out of ten stars rating , commenting it " huge and overwhelming , deeply soulful and expressive , if sometimes a bit unsubtly melismatic " . Clayton Perry from the online website Blogcritics provided a positive review , writing that it " is more than a simple presentation of song and dance ; the show , by all measures , is a Broadway @-@ caliber production " . The New York Times was also impressed toward the video release , writing that it is " at the top of her already speaker @-@ blowing vocal range " . 
