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"25-årige Lauv startede egentlig sin karriere som sangskriver for andre artister (...) Men både ambitionerne og skæbnen ville altså, at Lauv også skulle udgive musik i eget navn ... Ifølge Lauv selv trækker teksterne på hans forskellige del-personligheder. Således kommer vi bredt omkring, ikke bare i kærlighed og knuste hjerter, men også mentale problemer i form af ensomhed, depression og livets udfordringer helt generelt ... Desværre opstår der ofte en form for mismatch mellem netop teksternes sårbarhed og inderlighed og musikkens simple, elektroniske pop-produktioner og omkvæd. Det er absolut catchy og velproduceret, men det bliver også hurtigt lidt for pænt og poleret til, at man for alvor bliver ramt".

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"Pop singer Ari Leff advocates powerfully for being forthright about your feelings, but his album's whopping 21-song tracklist is underwhelming and repetitive".

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"The California-born singer-songwriter convincingly argues that young people have never had it so bad on his debut album ... This heart-on-sleeve approach might well be genuine, but Gen Z malaise is also big business: from Billie Eilish to melancholy emo-rap stars, performed alienation and anxiety is currently all the rage. Lauv is well-versed in industry trends, having previously penned hits with Charli XCX and Demi Lovato, and he mostly couples his timely observations with a similarly voguish mid-tempo electropop. Restrained and airless, it is the kind that sounds as if every beat has been placed with a pair of tweezers, and that you have to listen to three times to work out which bit is the chorus".

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