Time Flies When You're Having Fun is a studio album from American soul music singer Smokey Robinson, released in 2009.
The release coincided with Robinson's 50th anniversary as a musician, with a return to the classic quiet storm sound that he pioneered in the 1970s[1] and has received positive reviews from critics.
[2] Writing for Rolling Stone, Mark Kemp gave this album three out of five stars, noting the singer's "sterling tenor".
[4] Lloyd Bradley of BBC News noted not only the singing, but Robinson's songwriting, exhorting readers to "take any one of this set’s 12, beautifully-crafted vignettes that deal with just about every aspect of love – lost, found, enjoyed, unrequited and so on – telling stories in a way that will mean something to just about anybody".
[5] Mikeal Wood of Billboard gave this album four out of five stars, calling this "mellow vintage-soul disc that finds the Motown maestro in remarkably fine voice as he flexes his signature falsetto over supple, unhurried live-band arrangements long on tasty licks and laid-back grooves".