This Is What the Truth Feels Like lyrics such as: "They're all gonna say I'm rebounding, so rebound all over me". "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" features a range of genres; including pop, reggae, disco and dancehall, R&B, hip hop and "punky" electro-pop music. Leah Greenblatt of "Entertainment Weekly" viewed it as "an album so directly torn from Stefani's recent, much-documented romantic upheavals that it could be called 'The Ballad of Blake and Gavin". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic added that: "Stefani spends roughly half of the record singing breezy songs of liberation." Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" commented: "While an artist converting personal tragedy
This Is Not Retro – This Is the Eighties Up to Date and heavily dismissed in the recent past, and lately instead abused in the other direction, especially since when, in 1998, the so-called 'Eighties Revival' started, which saw numerous acts of the time come back to the scenes, often, but not necessarily, obtaining little or no success at all, above all as concerns the try on their part to present new songs, possibly very different, as for musical genre, to that those same acts were mostly famous for. N.B. (*) marks those tracks which are commercially available here for the very first time. This Is Not Retro – This Is the