Mess I don't think she's looking for critical acclaim anyway. It's a bunch a bias critics that'd rather focus on her being Miley Cyrus. It's really not hard to look pass everything else
The LA Times review is pure BS...they did the same for Shakira's last album (gave it a 37/100 while Billboard gave it an 88/100)...it was the only bad review she got which brought down the metacritic score for that album to 69...if it weren't for the LA Times review, Shakira. would've been in the high 70's where it belonged. Miley's album also deserves much higher than the 40 they gave it...but their biased opinion based on who she is is irrelevant.