Even a video of his below-par song "Boys Keep Swinging" is lifted by his elegant moves at the microphone and the presence of three foxy backing singers, all played by himself.
But Variety's David Benedict wondered how the fallout from Britain's most notorious sex-and-politics scandal could have been "turned into something so flaccid?" He said: "The cast do their level best and sing well but neither the meandering, below-par songs nor the slack storytelling create tension.
Even after he had a poke at music journalists on late autumn single Liars A to E – a musical no-no on a par with songs about new-born babies meant it failed to chart – Rowland came up with a masterpiece, and pointed to the soul vision of Celtic Soul Brothers that would return him to the Top 20 on its re-release (after an initial release in March 1982) in March 1983.
For 2010 reasons, Joss Stone is not only the Bond girl in the game, but also sings the super sub-par theme song.
Parisa first heard Mr. Najafi's song on Pars TV, an opposition satellite channel beamed out of Los Angeles.
It'd be preferable, as a content gatekeeper, if Apple viewed games as art rather than a product that's not yet on par with books or songs. .
Priya Elan of NME cited only "Freakum Dress" and "Ring the Alarm" as highlights and criticized that "too many tracks sound like updated versions of former glories", with no song on-par with "Crazy in Love".
Writing for entertainment.ie, Karen Lawler criticized lyrics like "you could be my Coca Cola, let me sip it up" for acting as a substitute for the "articulate rhymes on which [will.i.am] built his reputation", Brent Faulkner from PopMatters agreed that the lyrical content was sub-par, and called the song itself "utterly ridiculous".
LA Weekly declared that Jim Bianco "...has catapulted himself onto the level of eclectic song craft on par with Elvis Costello and Tom Waits".
In writing the song "Taare Zameen Par," lyricist Prasoon Joshi followed the theme of "however much you talk about children, it's not enough".
"Deep Blue" impressed the notably anti-Harrison Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, who considered the song on a par with "Here Comes the Sun" and "My Sweet Lord", while noting its status as a track "hidden away" on a B-side.
