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TAKE THAT - Beautiful World
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| Since Take That broke a million girls' hearts ten years ago, the fans have grown up, the 'Smash Hits' era has ended and the boy band has taken note. Anyone expecting instant nostalgia from Beautiful World will be disappointed - it proved its worth on their comeback tour, but the new album has a more mature sound. It's pop but without the cheese. There are no covers and nothing to demand a choreographed dance routine to wear out the knees of "four old men" (their words, not mine). Their voices are stronger and the lead vocals (and writing credits) are shared....full text |
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| Times Online |
| No longer just for teenage screamers, the reformed Take That now strive to capture the hearts of adults. A few disco numbers would be welcome, but even the weaker songs here include nagging earworms, while the best of them — the ELO/Scissor Sisters hybrid Shine and the effortless Ain’t No Sense in Love — show that maturity needn’t equate to aping Elton John. The Beatles facsimile Mancunian Way is hardly Penny Lane though....full text |
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| MusicOMH.com |
| It's funny how nostalgia can play funny tricks on you. If you were over 18, male and straight in the early '90s, then the chances are that you hated Take That. You hated the cutesy media image (ooh look, it's the cute one, it's the cheeky one, it's the one who writes the songs), you hated the fact that they were a manufactured boy band who topped the charts while Nirvana were slaying the rest of the world, and you hated the fact that they were unashamedly pop music....full text |
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