All I Ever Wanted
| Kelly Clarkson
All I Ever Wanted
All I Ever Wanted is the fourth studio album by American singer Kelly Clarkson, released on March 6, 2009 by RCA Records. After the controversies that surrounded her previous studio album, My December (2007), which was seen as darker than her other two albums, Clarkson went on to record a more pop-oriented album. In order to do so, she enlisted her previous collaborators Max Martin, Dr. Luke, (whom she worked with on her 2004 second album, Breakaway), Sam Watters and Louis Biancaniello (whom she worked with on her 2003 debut album Thankful), and new collaborators, Ryan Tedder, Howard Benson and Dre & Vidal.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Clarkson’s voice remains one of the most powerful in pop, and on “Wanted” it flattens everything in its path, blasting through piano ballads, chirpy retrosoul and, on “Whyyawannabringmedown,” a kind of AM-radio punk.
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Washington Post
The Texas power balladeer's occasionally thrilling new release, "All I Ever Wanted," is one of those rare pop albums that should resonate with the mainstream while also generating critical heat.
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BBC
Her fourth album won't disappoint hardcore fans but is unlikely to garner new listeners.
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HuffPost
All I Ever Wanted represents a logical career path that doesn’t push buttons or boundaries, but it’s not supposed to. It’s Clarkson’s most wholly satisfying project to date, showcasing her living up to her full potential.
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SLANT Magazine
From the cartoon-colored, airbrushed cover art and the use of garish Auto-Tune effects on literally the last voice in contemporary pop that would ever need to use it, to some production choices that are so obvious in their pandering that they come across as sarcastic, much of the record is characterized by an air of, at best, brattiness and, at worst, condescension that makes it an album of loaded intention and internal conflict.
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Sputnik Music
The Pop Radio station will once again embrace KC after the whole My December era, and there is no deny on this with the strong performances in All I Ever Wanted, providing radio will not be able to show the public what the ugly cover(oops!) looks like.
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POP MATTERS
If All I Ever Wanted -- with its brightly-colored promotional photos and candy-disco choruses -- sounds like career backpedaling, that's because it is. Yet the wonderful thing about Clarkson is that she knows that she's a pop star that's going back to what worked before, and her music is defiantly disposable because of it.
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IGN
On Wanted, Clarkson has cleaned house and banished the dark, cobwebbed corners of December in favor of a light-filled sonic space that combines the best of everything she's musically tinkered with to date
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ALL MUSIC
Thankfully, All I Ever Wanted is not Kelly Clarkson's atonement for insisting on releasing the dark, gothic rock record My December against the wishes of label boss Clive Davis in 2007 -- well, at least not entirely. All I Ever Wanted doesn't completely abandon the tougher rock edges of My December, but it does ditch the brooding in favor of angry spunk, all the better to prove that the girl who sang "Since U Been Gone" is back.
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AV MUSIC
For her fans, Kelly Clarkson is as real as American Idol gets—she’s the un-showbiz kid, a clearly smart, ambitious young woman with a tornado of a voice. Her new album, All I Ever Wanted, is a sort of comeback after 2007’s mostly unloved My December, on which she took the reins.
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LEHIGH VALLEY MUSIC
“All I Ever Wanted” is a masterful rapprochement with the mainstream, full of cheerfully ear-snagging tunes, inventive production, exhilarating vocals and enough inherent Kelly-ness to put aside fears that her label bosses implanted blond electrodes in her brain to make her behave.
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MuuMuse
Make no mistake–despite enough “guilty pleasure” cheese lyrics and clever production techniques to qualify for the Disney Radio queue, Clarkson’s latest is in many ways an aural smash, delivering a solid collection of slap-happy pop bangers and arena-lite ballads guaranteed to provide the soundtrack to many a lip-synch sessions on long road trips and rainy days.
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Houston Chronicle
The album just has an added pop shimmer that makes it her most fully realized album to date. There’s a lot going on with All I Ever Wanted.It’s a testament to Clarkson’s considerable talent that she was able to break out of a dark December and emerge with a renewed pop force.
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PULSE
Bouncing back from the battered My December, All I Ever Wanted repositions Kelly Clarkson somewhat as a producers songbird.
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musicOMH
All I Ever Wanted, Clarkson’s fourth album, isn’t, in chronological terms, the follow-up to Breakaway, but in terms of the sound and the sheer commercial appeal, it’s an obvious musical partner.
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EDGE OF THE PLANK
Kelly Clarkson's fourth studio album All I Ever wanted is truly all WE ever wanted: Catchy, fun, addictive pop rock! It will give you hours and hours of enjoyment.
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