JoJo’s ‘Good to Know’: Album Review

variety.com:

More than a decade and a half since she became a multi-tracked pop-R&B princess at age 13, JoJo has grown into herself and her sound.

By A.D. Amorosi The line on Joanna Levesque, then and now, has been nearly the same since she began making records at age 13.

JoJo, the youngest female solo artist to have a No. 1 in the U.S. with 2004’s “Leave (Get Out),” made mature-for-her-age pop R&B.

Sure, as a teen, she was more pop than R&B — a marketing trick if anything — and didn’t possess soul’s deep emotion, or its rhythmic density, on the early albums “JoJo” and “The High Road.” But JoJo conveyed a twee sense of street-sultriness (even if it was just a street in a cheery cul de sac).