Keri Hilson Is Better When She's Alienated [The Last Word]

Our look at the closing lines of the week's biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Keri Hilson's In a Perfect World..., which comes out—after many, many delays—today: • "The excellent 'Slow Dance' sounds like a mid-1980s Prince ballad, sparkly and psychedelic, and the album's high point, 'Alienated,' is an alluring cloud-covered plea to an ex in which Ms. Hilson alternates between singing and a sort of whispered rap. (It also inspires some of her quirkiest lyric...

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