Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The New York Times | Favorable |
| Rolling Stone | (not rated) |
| Sounds | |
| Spin | Unfavorable |
The album was generally poorly received by critics. Sounds gave it a one star (out of five) review, calling it "a slab of pretentious AOR offal". Spin writer Armond White called it "a Sesame Street album for children who think My Weekly Reader has been withholding the truth", and said that "the album's placidity and earnestness make embarrassing cliams on our emotions". Allmusic writer Richie Unterberger gave it two stars, stating that the tracks were "often imbued with a kind of sappy utopianism". Peter Buckley, in The Rough Guide to Rock, described the album as "a rather bombastic error of judgement, laden down by pseudo-comic philosophizing". Rick Shefchik, in the Charlotte Observer called it "the same old '60s hippie drivel". Robert Palmer of The New York Times gave the album a positive review, calling it "splended", viewing it as "the most balanced album Miss Ono has made", and describing it as "state-of-the-art pop music for 1985".
The poor response to the album led to Ono withdrawing from making music, later saying "After Starpeace I was totally discouraged...by the fact that there was no kind of demand for what I was doing, to put it mildly!".
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