Tender Lover

Tender Lover
Vinyl edition of standard artwork
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 7, 1989
Recorded1988–1989
StudioElumba Recording Studios
Galaxy Sound Studios
M'Bila Studios
(Hollywood, California)
Genre
Length48:51
Label
Producer
  • L.A. Reid
  • Babyface
(For LaFace Inc)
Babyface chronology
Lovers
(1986)
Tender Lover
(1989)
A Closer Look
(1991)
Singles from Tender Lover
  1. "It's No Crime"
    Released: June 13, 1989
  2. "Tender Lover"
    Released: October 3, 1989
  3. "Whip Appeal"
    Released: February 22, 1990
  4. "My Kinda Girl"
    Released: May 29, 1990

Tender Lover is the second studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Babyface. The album was released on July 7, 1989.[1] It is the follow-up to his debut Lovers (1986). It was his first album with SOLAR (Sound of Los Angeles Records) after the label entered into a distribution deal with Epic Records. In some regions of Europe, Tender Lover was released with a different cover picture and simply titled Babyface.[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Christgau's Record GuideB[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
  1. ^ "RIAA".
  2. ^ "Babyface – Babyface".
  3. ^ Wynn, Ron. Babyface: Tender Lover > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 3, 2011.
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "B". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
  5. ^ Brackett, N.; Hoard, C.D. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 32. ISBN 9780743201698. Retrieved April 13, 2015.