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Title: Most overrated album of 1998
Review: Years in the making, enduring endless rerecordings and producer switches, this album arrived to no end of hype. Sad thing is, all the energy people devoted to it before it came out must have made everyone think they had to continue the hype even after finding out the album simply isn't very good. Williams' voice notwithstanding (too many criticisms of her focus on that), it's her writing that is poor. For a poet laurate's daughter, you'd think she'd be able to venture beyond cliche and half-baked ideas in her writing. Critic David Fricke called this the "Blonde on Blonde" of the '90s. Revoke his license.
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