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Lloyd - Lessons In Love
| Guardian | | The best cuts on Lloyd Polite's second album, 2007's Street Love, perfected a particularly dreamy strain of lovers' R&B; on Lessons In Love, he continues to mine this fertile territory. Lyrically, Polite rarely strays far from a seducer's template, but the way in which he sells the cliche is compelling. Soft of voice and light of touch, Polite is a languid, subtle performer who invests his mellifluous sweet nothings with an ambivalent distance - shimmering just out of reach. Sometimes singer and song fade away too much, but more often this has the effect of heightening emotion and tantalising the listener: backed by a quietly looped Paid in Full sample, Girls Around the World is an exquisite summer jam, while the freestyle beats and house piano of I'm Wit It prove excellent foils for Polite's delicately drifting croon....full text |
| | Billboard | | The languorous yet infectious beat and girl-watching theme of lead single "Girls Around the World" (a top 15 R&B hit featuring labelmate Lil Wayne) reflect the overall direction of "Lessons in Love." This is an unabashed look at love's various facets by a maturing singer/songwriter who has come a long way since his start in the 2000 preteen group N-Toon. Sporting a smooth tenor reminiscent of a younger Michael Jackson, Lloyd works it to the max on such single-worthy rhythmic tracks and ballads as "Treat U Good," "Lose Your Love" and "I'm Wit It." But he momentarily stumbles on the derivative, R. Kelly-esque "Year of the Lover" ("Don't make plans for dinner/I'm a put you up on a stove/And take off all your clothes/Girl, watch me cook"). Such slip-ups aside, Lloyd still serves up a satisfying sophomore suite....full text |
| | Allmusic | | The big lead single from Lloyd's third album, "Girls All Around the World," has a couple connections with "You," the number one R&B single from 2007's Street Love. Lil Wayne's guest roles are the most obvious similarity between the two, while "Girls All Around the World" is built around the same drum break -- the one from Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers' "Ashley's Roachclip," a source for the likes of Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full" and Milli Vanilli's "Girl You Know It's True," to name two of the almost countless -- used on P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss," a song that, like "You," quoted Spandau Ballet's "True." "Girls easily qualifies as this album's most major drawing point, fit for summer with that familiar bounding beat and breezy synth-string accents, not to mention Wayne, who can't help but humorously reference "Paid in Full....full text |
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