--- Jody Rosen ouve na voz de T-Pain uma verdadeira "sex machine". Embora as suas canções sejam tão insistentes no corpo feminino, a identidade física de T-Pain é praticamente eliminada delas, ao sintetizar a sua voz numa espécie de "robo-drone". Transformando esse truque num estilo próprio, T-Pain sucede assim a Roger Troutman e emerge como "o ciborgue mais bem sucedido da história da música".
«(...) in T-Pain, Web 2.0 has found its romantic balladeer, a disembodied voice for an age of virtual hook-ups, "sexting," and cam-to-cam chat.»
--- O r&b estava a precisar de "Trapped in the Closet" de R. Kelly: «Humor is a vastly underestimated component of popular music, central to country and hip-hop, whose rhymes often take the form of punchlines. But contemporary R&B rarely cracks a smile. Where jokes exist, they are generally unintentional. (...)»
«But as the years have progressed, Kelly has learned, as Kelefa Sanneh wrote this week in the New York Times, "that a subtle joke, or an unsubtle one, can make a slow jam feel more intimate and therefore more effective." Today, while Kelly still regularly churns out slow jams—tempo-wise, Trapped in the Closet qualifies as one—he seems profoundly uninterested in making utilitarian sex music, happy to cede the title of Booty Call King to the tyros. Instead of singing about sex, Kelly is singing about singing about sex. He's gone meta-love man. (...)»
«Kelly has managed to breathe life into sex music by embracing sexual farce (...) and he can let his erotic imagination run utterly rampant. Perversion goes down easy when delivered with a wink. (...)»
«The real triumph of Kelly's meta-love-man routine is how it underscores something essential about sex and desire: the comedy and absurdity that so often accompany the desperate lurchings of our loins.»
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