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- Summary: The fifth full-length for the British pop artist features production from OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder and Ed Sheeran.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
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| It's a little after midnight there's a couple in the corner and I wonder what he said because she's crying And I guess they won't remember When they... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Mar 27, 2017Afterlove is a brave bid for contemporary relevance in 2017, a wonderful step outside his comfort zone that is more memorable and exciting than much of his output this decade.
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Mar 27, 2017A chart-friendly tropical dance-pop production boosts Ibiza resident Blunt’s querulous, tremulous balladry with a fresh Chris De Burgh-hits-Cafe Del Mar energy on Paradise, Bartender and California, but it’s bland business as usual on soppy numbers such as Make Me Better (co-written with Ed Sheeran) and Time of Our Lives.
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Q MagazineMar 27, 2017It struggles to hold attention because even Blunt's poppiest songs start the same way as his ballads: a downbeat vocal about ghosting, love or how Twitter hates him. [May 2017, p.100]
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Mar 27, 2017While the lyrics may be banal and inoffensive--bar a few moments of pause-and-rewind strangeness including references to “modern friends” and “beautiful” mothers (not his)--the music is actively risible, with Blunt having adopted a watered-down version of Justin Bieber’s asinine tropical house.
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