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''Pain Is Love'' is the third studio album by American rapper Ja Rule. Produced by Irv Gotti, it was released on October 2, 2001, by Def Jam and Murder Inc Records. The album received a mixed reception from critics. ''Pain Is Love'' debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 and was supported by three singles: "Livin' It Up", "Always on Time" and "Down Ass Bitch". It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over 3,000,000 copies. The sequel of the album was set to be released on February 28, 2012, titled ''Pain Is Love 2''. ==Reception== 〕 | rev2 = ''The A.V. Club'' | rev2Score = Unfavorable | rev3 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev3Score = B+ | rev4 = HipHopDX | rev4Score = | rev5 = ''Los Angeles Times'' | rev5Score = | rev6 = PopMatters | rev6Score = Mixed | rev7 = RapReviews | rev7Score = 7.5/10 | rev8 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev8Score = }} ''Pain is Love'' received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59, based on 10 reviews.〔 Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic praised the album for fine-tuning the formula set by ''Rule 3:36'' of having R&B crossover singles and hardcore rap tracks to balance out the whole record.〔 HipHopDX said that hardcore tracks like "Dial M for Murder" and "Worldwide Gangsta" felt like forced attempts to bring back Ja's thug persona, but praised the album for having tracks that contain ear-grabbing lines and good beats, saying that "''Pain Is Love'' is another positive establishment that will indeed create more popularity and more fan acknowledgement for Ja Rule."〔 Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews found Ja's singing voice on some tracks intolerable but gave the album credit for containing tracks that display Irv Gotti's producing talents and Ja's adequate lyricism, concluding that, "Ja Rule will live up to the latter half of his name and dominate the charts for the latter half of 2001 with an album that is undoubtedly his most solid release to date."〔 Soren Baker of the ''Los Angeles Times'' gave credit to the singles "Livin' It Up" and "I'm Real" for being the album's strong points but criticized tracks like "The Inc" and "Worldwide Gangsta" for being bland and less effective, saying they "recycle hard-core themes without adding any clever phrasings or creative beat work to compensate for their ordinariness."〔 Nathan Rabin of ''The A.V. Club'' criticized the album for lacking substance to go with the catchy pop hooks and Ja for making failed recycled attempts to copy 2Pac, specifically on the penultimate feature track "So Much Pain" concluding that "even at less than his best, 2Pac still conveys a sense of urgency and purpose that illustrates incontestably the huge chasm separating the real deal from a canny imitation."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pain Is Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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