Who Are You
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Who Are You
Who You Are is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. It was released on 28 February 2011 by Lava Records, Island Records and Universal Republic Records. In such a high demand and interest from fans, the release was advanced by a month from 28 March, as previously planned.[1] Recording sessions took place between 2010 and 2011, with several other record producers contributing on the album such as Dr. Luke, Toby Gad and K-Gee, among others. -WIKIPEDIA
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All Music
Whether due to Moon's death or not, it was the last reasonably interesting Who record.
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Rolling Stone
1978 This one seems to have left them ready for the new music they claim they can’t make — a claim that’s obviated by what is new and, more importantly, compelling on Who Are You.
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Punknews
2018 - As it is, Who Are You is the last thing the four would play on, and it will have to do: a deeply flawed but honest memorial.
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Classic Rock Review
2018 Here, the music is built on layered arrangements which heavily utilizes synthesizers while multiple styles are explored among the album’s ten tracks. It is obvious from beginning that this differs from any classic.
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BBC
2002 - An album that nailed the bleeding heart of protest-pop. It still sounds ablaze.
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Sputnik Music
Some really rocking tracks (Trick of the Light, Who Are You, 905) Entwistle really shines as a composer Very different sound, not regurgetated Who material.
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Musicko
The Who had been traversing and the many detours they had taken could understand its true importance.
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Smaulgld
The album disappoints because it seems as if you can almost feel the magic slipping away.
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Pitchfork
Jessie J is charmless, banal, vapid, and suddenly all over the place.
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BBC
There’s ample room for improvement, but given the well-documented hurdles Cornish has already overcome one shouldn’t write her off just yet.
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NME
It’s cheeky, relevant, and fresh. But unfortunately it’s a flash that’s shortly over.
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The Telegraph
This debut switches effortlessly from r&b ballads to punchy rap tunes.
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Entertainment
offers the promise of a gifted singer ready to ditch the flash and show us who she is.
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Boston Globe
it certainly doesn’t shed any definitive light on its maker’s artistic identity.
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SPIN
On her debut full-length, the 22-year-old songwriter nails a variety of roles: crotch-grabbing punker, '70s soul diva, Kelly Clarkson–style bellower.
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ALL MUSIC
Who You Are is a singularly ironic title for a debut that finds Jessie J trying on discarded threads from every British pop starlet of the last half decade.
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The Guardian
Divested of the slowies, this would have been a fine pop record.
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Rap Reviews
Quite honestly, Ke$ha is just more fun to listen to, even though Jessie J may ultimately have more career longevity. It's a decent enough album for the teenage dance set though.
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The New York Times
These ambitiously sung songs make for tremendous chaos: the lyrics about uplift are often trite, the furiously modern arrangements are often clichéd.
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SLANT
Unfortunately, the songs on Who You Are that allow Jessie J's ugly, born-that-way vocals to cut loose are in the distinct minority.
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INDEPENDENT
It plays like a very conventional, early-90s pop record.
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No Ripcord
She's still one to watch, but the hype which preceded the release of Who You Are promised much more than what has been delivered.
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AV/MUSIC
In trying to be an über-pop-star, she ends up becoming an every-pop-star.
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popMATTERS
Who You Are tries very hard to swagger, but it trips over its own feet and continues to self-consciously limp on through thirteen tracks, as if to suggest that's its hobbling is its normal walk.
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RollingStone
It's well-meaning, well-crafted and confused.
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musicOHM
Jessie J's only real failing appears to be her attempt to be everything to everyone.
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Drowned in Sound
This is dead-eyed pop with aspirations of being your comfort food but turns out to be a starchy soulless slop.
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MISC.MUSIC
Cornish seems stuck between trying to sound like she’s black and trying to push her British accent upfront, leaving her vocals a confused and often irritating mess of intonation, phrasing and lip smacking.
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Newsday
Promising, but confused, pop.
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writerrebelle
it gets a little screechy and painful.
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HESJEDAL MEDIA
Jessie sings for the masses and can belt out any tune with clear concise distinction.
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