Despite the success, there was always some criticism of Acda & De Munnik, who never seemed to be able to make a choice between pop and cabaret. For all critics, Your Life With Me will be a pleasant surprise. With the first tones it immediately becomes clear that something has changed. We already knew that the duo knows what to do with (sometimes too) clever lyrics. But also in music more depth
… has been sought than before. For this purpose, the collaboration has been entered into with not the least: Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orkest, westcoast legend and arranger Van Dyke Parks and Ken Stringfellow of cult band The Posies. They brought atmosphere, layering and finesse to the familiar Beatlesque pop songs. Acda & De Munnik themselves have not fundamentally changed, the theme of the title track Jouw Leven Lang Bij Mij is actually the same as that of their breakthrough hit Never Or Never Been. The self-mockery in some songs is amusing, for example when it comes to their tendency to write incomprehensible lyrics: "I will stay with me all your life / and now just hope she didn't hear what I said." (MS)more