[5] Lloyd co-wrote five songs and worked with various producers and songwriters for her first full-length release, including The Runners, Kevin Rudolf, and Savan Kotecha, among others.

Songwriter Autumn Rowe[7] and producer RedOne[8] were soon rumoured to be working on Lloyd's debut album.

[13] "With Ur Love", the album's second single, features vocals from American singer Mike Posner.

[16] A solo version of the song served as Lloyd's debut single and the first from the album in the United States, released on Epic Records, run by her manager, L.A.

On 21 October 2011, Lloyd released the studio version for her cover of Shakespears Sister's "Stay" and the pre-order of "Sticks and Stones."

The song "Dub on the Track" featuring Mic Righteous, Dot Rotten & Ghetts had a music video released on 13 December 2011.

"Want U Back" and "End Up Here" are both infectious examples of cutesy pure pop that recall Britney Spears" adding "At times, Sticks + Stones sounds like such a calculated effort to copy everything that's hot in 2011 that it's likely to feel utterly irrelevant by the time the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve.

It's sparky and restless and sustains Lloyd's mini rapping firebrand/cute crooner aesthetic through a quickfire run of 10 top-notch songs.

"[23] NME gave the album 5 out of 10, they said: 'Grow Up', a grossly irritating slice of tweenish ragga-pop driven home with are-we-there-yet insistency, still-hideous 'Swagger Jagger' and bulldozing dubstep territory on 'Dub on the Track' but when Sticks + Stones stops charging about the place, there's evidence to suggest Cher is actually quite good at this pop malarkey.

'Want U Back' is a sassy bit of bubble-drunk pop, while 'End Up Here' finds Cher adopting a Beyoncé-aping vocal style with not-at-all-bad results.

They wrote "With her manic lowbrow sass – tiresome at length but lovable on singles like Want U Back – she makes these street-laced pop tracks her own in Sticks & Stones".

They said that "While Sticks & Stones isn't an album that will change the world, its radio-ready dance-pop and high-spirited energy is harmless and infectious enough to earn her an army of new fans in America", and laid heavy praise on "Oath" and "Behind the Music".