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Solid if unspectacular.
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A few tracks on Shock Value are exactly what you’d expect and hope for from someone with Timbaland’s recent track record, a few are straight-up awful, and most get your head nodding well enough as long as you’re prepared to turn off your brain.
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Shock Value recycles many of the same beats, melodies, and other sonic ideas that were used (better and most recently, with help from co-producer Danja) on Timberlake's album.
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Rolling StoneShock Value doesn't feel as random and indistinct as many albums by producers using all-star lineups do. [19 Apr 2007, p.62]
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Shock Value isn't a perfect album, but it does possess various charms.
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Shock Value has a disturbing amount of chemistry-set mishaps.
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[It] would be more accurately titled Timbaland Presents Slight Confusion or Timbaland Presents an Uneven Mess.
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The real shock of the disc is the hit-or-miss results.
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The beats here are as staggering as ever, but of an indulgent 19 tracks, none sound like they were good enough to give to anybody else.
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Most of Shock Value confirms that Timbaland is most valuable when he's in the background.
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For all the trademark sonic trickery - honking rave synthesizers, fidgety beats, odd samples, vocal effects - there's a lack of decent songs.
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VibeOn Shock, Timbaland has pushed himself--he's clearly striving for some of the charisma his best collaborators ooze. [May 2007, p.113]
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UncutIt's strangely joyless. [Jun 2007, p.115]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 59
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Mixed: 7 out of 59
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Negative: 11 out of 59
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JosephAApr 12, 2007
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Oct 17, 2020This album is great. To this day, every song is still fresh. To me, at least.
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DanH.Apr 1, 2008I liked it quite a lot.