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The Trouble With Being Myself

by Macy Gray

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892
2003

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125

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Overall Rating: 2.8256 The Trouble With Being Myself is ranked overall as 2.8256 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.8168 The Trouble With Being Myself has an avg. critic score of 2.8168 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

To call Macy Gray's new album, The Trouble With Being Myself, delightful is to minimize its sensual intelligence and considerable emotional depth. ...more

PopMatters

At once more of the same and something more, a set of polished, enchantingly newish approaches to her favorite themes, from bad choices (hers and his) and rueful memories to exhilarating anticipations and beguiling fantasies. ...more

Rolling Stone

Part biography, part self-analysis, part feminine primal scream, Myself is a tour through familiar Gray territory, spiked with humor and her take-no-bullshit attitude. ...more

Rolling Stone

It's one of R&B's great mysteries: How does a thin, pinched meow of a voice like Macy Gray's manage to sound gutsier and more convincing than an entire roomful of her more vocally gifted neosoul sisters? The answer is in one of the few tricks Gray ...more

Yahoo! Music

The scary hair and Billie Holiday on helium croak aside, Macy Gray 's greatest attribute is her lyrical persona as a kooky psycho screwball with a heart of gold. ...more

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Spin

As a current-events commentator, Gray's got better beats than The New York Times and funnier lyrics than Fox News....read the complete review at Spin

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Dot Music

Unfortunately, none of it's even remotely memorable....read the complete review at Dot Music

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The A.V. Club

Macy Gray's sudden and spectacular emergence, fueled by Grammy exposure and top-volume Rosie O'Donnell endorsements, was enviable right up until the point when Gray had to begin writing and recording a sequel. As a follow-up to her best-selling and...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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