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All Music Guide - Andy Kellman A sleeve that would have been a more emblematic model for Robin Thicke's seventh album is that of Robert Goulet's My Love Forgive Me. If Paula bears any other relation to Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys -- the graphic likeness is unmistakable -- it must be far beneath the surface. Like the 1964 Goulet album, Paula deals in remorse and heartache -- ballads that acknowledge fault and plead for mercy. It even has a bossa nova-inspired moment. He's in entertainer mode to such an extent that he sounds not like an agonized singer/songwriter but more like an reinterpreter. The most over-the-top song is "Lock the Door," a piano blues ballad; he howls "At least open the doggie door, ... See more details below Eligible for .