Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B-) |
Finally album received mixed to positive reviews from music academics. Craig Lytle from Allmusic lauded the album in his review as "outstanding", respectively "solidly produced collection". Giving the set four out of five stars, he wrote that the album warranted an additional single release. Amy Linden from Entertainment Weekly stated that Peniston has "a good enough voice" (which she stressed as a novelty among dance-music dollies), but apart from its title single, plus the funky ode "Virtue", she ranked the rest of album by B- for being "mainly standard issue and pretty dull", actually.
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