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Alfred Soto: Had we world enough and payola, pop audiences would know Ledisi, and this single would be top five with a bullet. With a fingerpoppin’ rhythm section reminiscent of Patrice Rushen and restraint worthy of Karyn White, she lays the accusations on the table as if before a magistrate. I don’t believe for a second though that she’s the sort of person who builds castles in the sky.
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Crystal Leww: Ledisi channels Beyoncé channeling Stevie Wonder for “I Blame You.” This is so light while exerting a ton of effort, and Ledisi can really sing, with those ad-libs in the last minute and a half really reaching for those heights. I love the vocabulary, which is unintentionally so very modern-day-fangirl, every “I blame you” a total fake-out for a positive connotation. I’m reminded of the way that Tumblr screams about One Direction or the way that I scream about Usher. Speaking of Usher, +1 for the “She’s All That”-ing herself in the video. 
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Hazel Robinson: This is doggedly, unwaveringly retro. But it’s also summer. It’s pissing it down in London right now and I’m wearing a slightly unwashed dressing gown but if it was even slightly sunny and I’d put a decent bra/dress combination on, there’s absolutely no point pretending this wouldn’t completely work on me. It’s also got a very pleasing ‘fuck you for making me ridiculously in love with you’ accusatory/affectionate element to it, reminiscent of Tumblr tags to a degree that makes me fond towards it. Non-essential but then what the fuck is, eh?
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Anthony Easton: I keep thinking if this extended a bit more, repeated, pushed, moved backwards towards a source, went higher than it is, dropped lower than it had — if it had more ambition, maybe enough ambition to fall apart, I would commit more fully. 
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Mallory O’Donnell: Excessive MJ-isms ruin an otherwise mediocre song.
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Thomas Inskeep: Uptempo R&B for grown folks that, simply, does the job; it’s nice to hear Ledisi break out of ballad mode. I’m also a sucker for songs which take negative-sounding titles and put a positive spin on them. (Why is she so happy these days? She blames you, natch.) 
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Scott Mildenhall: The use of the title is semantically confusing even if clarified (and that clarification is awkward at best), but otherwise this is an accurate expression of steady contentment. Maybe it’s too steady to really stand out, or to sustain four and a quarter minutes, but then it is a story of every day being a delight; a complement rather than a one-off.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: “I Blame You” speaks to the part of me that spends hours online to buy old Maze & Frankie Beverley tour t-shirts, and I like that part of me a helluva lot.
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Brad Shoup: A cracking high-stepper in the “You Rock My World” model. Just the way she sings “aw yeah” is cathartic, and has been for months. I will say that ditching the flute for the electric sitar was probably a good choice; it would’ve made the scatty outro pretty goofy.
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Will Adams: The music is smooth, Ledisi’s performance is gorgeous and restrained, but there’s an elephant in the room that threatens to undo the entire song.
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David Lee: She sells the shit out of that “dancing on the ceiling” image.
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