Where it all begins

"Hathaway wants it to be easy. She is clearly an accomplished musician, but she traffics in the toothless, ironing out the crinkles but taking everything else with it. The result is an overlong hodgepodge that can border on soporific. At the very least, she needs to step up and assert herself behind the microphone. Smooth does not have to mean dreary".

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"Where It All Begins picks up where 2008's Self Portrait left off, though the pop-R&B-type moves - buzzing synthesizers, harder beats - are a little more pronounced. "If You Want To," a gleaming disco-funk track co-written by Rahsaan Patterson, is the best of that lot; the remainder of the album's highlights are relatively subdued".

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