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Pat Benatar: True Love  

Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 27 June 1991

TO HER CREDIT, Pat Benatar has never been a purist. From the beginning, this opera-trained mom has not cared whether you classified her as a New Waver or a motorcycle chick or a dance-oriented-metal bimbo or a ballad belter or a Euro-glitz broad, as long as you liked her voice. In some ways, making a blues album, which is what True Love would like to be, is just a natural progression for her. But in other ways, it's disconcerting.

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