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| n/a by Billboard |
While it's still age-appropriate for minors, Breakout is for the big kids too. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
After all this fun, Breakout's second half gets overly ballad-heavy--guess that's where the growing up factors in--although, impressively, she's a dead ringer for the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines on the mournful 'These Four Walls.' |
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| n/a by www.latimes.com |
Breakout is unlikely fodder for the razzle-dazzle road shows and 3-D concert films to come. As a portrait of the artist as a young malcontent, though, it's rarely less than fascinating. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
The only thing Britney ever did better was cut loose, and even through Breakout's title suggests both a debutante's cotillion (leaving Disneyland and entering the airwaves) and an emotional liberation, Miley often sounds held-back and controlled. |
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| n/a by www.boston.com |
With Breakout, Cyrus has clearly made a choice to break from the shiny, happy Hannah Montana character, but she hasn't scuffed her sound up so much that her fans won't recognize that she's just being Miley. |
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| n/a by www.courant.com |
While the slow-into-snappy single '7 Things' is an obvious attempt at a follow-up, and although much of the disc tends toward the same mildly punky pop (much of it co-written by Cyrus), there's an unwelcome familiarity to the hooks, a sense that Breakout is actually just a mash-up of moves tried and discarded by Lohan/Duff/fill-in-the-Disney-diva-of-your choice. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
For teen-pop (despite what Annie Leibovitz would have us believe, Miley is only 15, after all), your kid could do worse. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
My guess is that Breakout isnt fun enough or accomplished enough to really excite any segment of her fan base; rather, its just enjoyable enough and shows just enough flashes of maturation and skill to halt doubts regarding Cyruss future in the entertainment industry. |
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| n/a by thephoenix.com |
Breakout is a puzzling mishmash that makes sense only if you read between the lines and see the 15-year-old trapped in a machine that is partly of her own design. |
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| n/a by Rolling Stone |
With Breakout, Disney's queen bee finally has a sophisticated pop record under her own name, and she's venting the frustrations of a teen who's too grown-up to submit to her parents, teachers or anyone else. |
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