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Bluebird of Happiness
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Bluebird of Happiness
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Bluebird of Happiness
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's first album as an independent artist, following associations with
and
, arrived with the singer's announcement that it would also be her final full-length.
was presumably made with fewer creative restrictions, yet there's no indication that
was stockpiling left-of-center ideas, as it's a straightforward set of mature commercial R&B.
,
, and
are among the collaborators who supply the kind of slick, sophisticated grooves and airy backdrops that have typified
's major-label efforts. As with the likes of
, it's emotionally fraught more frequently than it is content, cresting with the two-timed belter "My Man" and wrenched finale "Empty Boxes." The best of the few throwbacks neatly twists
's "Love Come Down." ~ Andy Kellman