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Title: I hate to say it, but...
Review: This is one overatted album! The lyrcial content is nice. Very pleasent. A real upper, but nothing new or innovative. To say that she put so much of her soul into it is a joke! Most of the time it's just stuff like Superstar where Lauryn bitches about how fly she thinks it is. That's no soul. That's arrogance! Some tracks almost make it. I do think of Forgive Them Father quite often. I alos like her vocals but they are so constrained by lay-overs like in Ex-Factor. She should only be singing one line at a time. It sounds more natural. There is a few good bouncy doo-wop songs, but that's about all this album offers. It is no classic and will not be remembered as fondly 10 years from now as it is today. Peechy album, but there is quite a few others I would take to a desert island. I give it 2 and 1/2 stars.
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