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Production

''My Cassette Player'' includes Meyer-Landrut's number-one single "

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Zeit.de. 30 May 2010. Accessed 30 May 2010. as well as her songs " Love Me" and "

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and " Mr. Curiosity" by

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, both of which had been performed by Meyer-Landrut during '' Unser Star für Oslo'' (Our Star for Oslo), the German national pre-selection programme for the

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. All of the other songs were written or co-written by

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and Meyer-Landrut herself. The cover photo was created by Sophie Krische. The cassette recorder on the cover is a SKR 700, produced in the former

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. The artwork of the album booklet was done by Ronald Reinsberg. The second maxi-single from the album is "

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Critical reception

In Germany, initial reviews of the album were mixed. While ''Stuttgarter Nachrichten'' criticised the overly distinct influence of producer Stefan Raab,Reinhardt, Gunther

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'' called it "somewhat banal" but still a "good pop album", characterising "Bee" as a "cheerful hymn to independence" and "Satellite" as "still sounding astonishingly fresh, even after its massive airplay".Schild, Gerd
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Haz.de. 6 May 2010. Accessed 7 May 2010. In foreign press, the album was critically panned with a number of reviews blaming nonsensical lyrics and Lena's weak voice. In Sweden, the website ''Kritiker'' assigned a normalised rating out of 5.0 to reviews from mainstream critics across the country and gave the album an average score of 2.0, based on 13 reviews, which indicates negative to mixed reviews. Jenny Seth of ''

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'' accused Lena of being "a precocious teenager" with "forced vocals... ndbanal lyrics about bees". She added that, whilst Lena "is influenced by Kate Nash and Adele, she sounds rather

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wimpy Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz's unbearably perky little sister". Anders Nunstedt, music editor from the Swedish tabloid ''

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'', gave the album a harsh review calling it a "bland pop debut with nonsense lyrics" and criticising Lena's "exaggerated British accent". Carina Jonsson in ''

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'' gave the album only one out of five and criticised Lena's vocal ability, saying she "sings as bad as any karaoke rookie, also, she has added a hard-won goofy English accent".

Track listing

Personnel

Lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of th ...

* Lena Meyer-Landrut Additional vocals * Christoph Leis-Bendorf * Jan Löchel * Kayna Additional Musicians * Thorsten Brötzmann – keyboards * Axel Grube – bass * Michael Knauer – keyboards * Peter Weihe – guitar

Audio mastering Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via meth ...

* Sascha "Busy" Bühren * Jeo@Jeopark * Michael Schwabe

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* Andre "Brix" Buchmann * John Gordon * Per Kristian "Boots" Ottestad * Ingo Politz *

* Bernd Wendtland Artwork/Photos * Sophie Krische * Ronald Reinsberg Writing (lyrics and music) * Adele Laurie Blue Adkins * Matty Benbrook * Jim Duguid *

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* Rosi Golan * John Gordon (music) * Elena Jane "Ellie" Goulding * Pär Lammers * Jonny Lattimer * Lester A. Mendez * Lena Meyer-Landrut (lyrics) * Dennis James Morris *

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* Per Kristian "Boots" Ottestad * Stefan Raab * Daniel Schaub * Mayaeni Strauss Source:

Production

Critical reception

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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