Lines, Vines, and Trying Times
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Lines, Vines, and Trying Times
Lines, Vines and Trying Times is the fourth studio album by the Jonas Brothers. It was released June 16, 2009 in the US. The album received mixed reviews from critics and fans. In its first week, the album sold 247,000 copies, debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200. It is their third and last album released under Hollywood Records and their last album released before their hiatus, which lasted from October 2013 to March 2019. -Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
Unfortunately, they don’t seem smart enough to realize that nothing kills any given teen-pop cycle faster than attempts at “maturity,” especially when those attempts are of the awkward, PG-13 variety that characterizes much of Lines.
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Consequence of Sound
These brothers’ obvious status as fodder for cynical hipsters removed, they please their key demographic.
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Sputnik Music
Lines, Vines and Trying Times is not the power-pop masterpiece many fans expected.
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Jesus Freak Hideout
The band did something right this time around.
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Common Sense Media
JoBros enter mature territory but keep it clean and catchy.
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Rolling Stone
There’s more to the music rather than just a typical kind of relationship song.
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Pop Matters
Despite their best intentions, the Jonas Brothers are unable to produce a credible album in the waning days of Jonas Mania.
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Los Angeles Times
The Jonas Brothers have discovered many intriguing angles for realizing their songcraft talents, but they don't yet have perspective on a world outside the Jonas orbit.
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No Ripcord
The most striking thing about Lines, Vines and Trying Times is the proliferation of 80s influences. Not 80s in a cool, La Roux, sleek electro revival kind of way, but 80s in a synthetic, cheap, well… Duran Duran kind of way, come to think of it.
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Entertainment Weekly
'Trying Times' tops the albums chart, but it's no blockbuster.
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MTV
‘Lines, Vines, and Trying Times’ is a great album and is proof that Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas deserve all of the attention that they have been getting.
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BBC
There's something for everyone here and the boys prove that there is very little that they can't do.
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All Music
The JoBros did it effortlessly on A Little Bit Longer but on Lines, Vines and Trying Times the seams are showing, which makes it a little bit harder to enjoy, even if there are certainly moments where all their craft and charm click, resulting in some fine pop that points out what's missing from the rest of the record.
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The Pop Project
I do recommend listing to the album.
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Seventeen
Lines, Vines, and Trying Times is the JoBros' fourth - and catchiest! - album.
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Entertainment Voice
A decade after their last studio album, 2009's “Lines, Vines and Trying Times,” the Jonas Brothers are back at it, reunited and revitalized.
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U Interview
“Lines, Vines And Trying Times” won’t alienate the brothers’ dedicated legions of teenage fans, but it does show the rest of the music world that they have a bit more to offer than we previously thought.
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The National
“Lines, Vines And Trying Times” won’t alienate the brothers’ dedicated legions of teenage fans, but it does show the rest of the music world that they have a bit more to offer than we previously thought.
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IOL
In giving the masses what they want, it is hard to fault the Jonas Brothers for staying true to their style once again.
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