Bangerz

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Critic Score
Based on 24 reviews
2013 Ratings: #1068 / 1115
User Score
2013 Rank: #500
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CRITIC REVIEWS

91
Entertainment Weekly
Wherever her passions alighted in the past, she’s obviously infatuated right now with hip-hop and its perpetual drive for new and exotic sounds.
80
The Irish Times
Unlike Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus swears and she drinks. She even chopped her locks and donned a pair of Docs, but it's her new album that will finally wedge the two apart.
75
A.V. Club

With its fresh, smart takes on youth, heartbreak, and modern culture, Bangerz is a record that could very well legitimize Miley Cyrus.

74
Sputnikmusic

This delusional “growing up is bad” aspect of Bangerz is part of what makes it good, because it means that Miley can pull off things that shouldn’t work.

70
Slant Magazine
A few tracks find Cyrus genre-hopping without any clear focus, like the tedious and cliché "Love Money Party" and the rote "Maybe You're Right," but they're outliers on an otherwise consistent, and consistently surprising, album.
70
Billboard

"Bangerz," Cyrus' fourth studio album and RCA Records debut, is, for better and worse, the sound of a singer following a pair of enormous singles with a full-length completely from the perspective that birthed those two hits.

70
Rolling Stone

Bangerz is the sound of Hannah Montana gone Miami Vice.

70
Consequence of Sound

Don’t be shocked that this album is mid-level pop, be surprised that even at 20, Miley can open her scope to encompass country, hip-hop, ballads, and even the electronic impulses of today’s pop. 

70
AllMusic

Bangerz transforms Miley into a pop star who won't -- and can't -- be ignored as she rings in her twenties.

65
The Young Folks

Bangerz is all over the place; we go from something hyper-sexualized to something heartbreaking and somber, and there’s still some odd stuff in between.

60
FACT Magazine

In a year where the pop charts’ two biggest singles sound like Jamiroquai and Emeli Sande has sold more albums than anyone else from the UK, a record this entertaining, diverse and full of surprises – and often, yes, good songs – feels like a breath of fresh air.

60
The Arts Desk

It is in appearance and general form a standardly incoherent major American pop record, where shrill rock ballads collide with R&B beats and bussed-in rap verses.

60
NOW Magazine
The capital-P pop star backs up her I-just-don’t-give-a-fuck persona with killer singing and decent songwriting, but keeps us waiting for a banger that never comes.
60
FasterLouder

Regardless of which it is, in trying to chase the ley lines of the pop music discourse of the current day, Bangerz feels a little lost for direction.

40
PopMatters

While Bangerz pleasures are fleeting at best, the times when she goes all-out goofy, embracing the campy side of the popstar equation, she actually seems to have found her groove; shame these moments are surrounded by such atrociously forgettable filler.

40
SPIN

Bangerz is a precise album that flits between bombastic and turgid; it is not very fun.

40
The Independent
The album is awash in autotune: she claims that she's "turned into someone else", but it sounds more like something else.
40
The Observer

Bangerz feels stitched together in the dark, and the attention-seeking begins to grate.

40
musicOMH

If there’s one thing that Bangerz can be described as, it’s run of the mill. There’s obviously a fair number of swear words and lots of references to sex scattered around the place, but even this just sounds so cynical as to come across as utterly innocuous.

33
Pretty Much Amazing

These so-called Bangerz are hookless, poorly written, dully produced songs, and their singer doesn’t have the charisma or talent to see them through. 

20
Crack Magazine
The lasting memory left by the album and its surrounding circus is still Miley Cyrus performing a song that wasn't even hers at an awards show.
20
No Ripcord
Her recent singles and elevation to tabloid fodder may have secured her place in the upper echelons of pop stardom, but you’d hope that, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, having a decent song or two in your repertoire should count for something.
KezeOfficial
55

"Driving so fast boutta piss on myself"
What the fuck Miley?

coloncancer
35

the name kills me every time

Litsly
44

Bangerz é o álbum mais rebelde de Miley, lançado no auge de sua carreira, ele foi um divisor na carreira dela.
  Mas mesmo assim, a sonoridade é fraquissima, o álbum se sustenta basicamente nos singles, ele é longo e entediante, e as músicas não soam tão original quanto a personagem de Miley na época.
  As letras são tão horríveis quantos os outros quesitos do álbum, em geral, elas ... read more

Saeyoung_Choi
100

Ame Get It Right

ces_tirso
60

First Experience: Miley's greatest hits are probably on this album, which does seem to be the best of her career in chronological order, but we can't deny the lack of consistency. I feel that the maturity that the album exudes hasn't reached all the songs, so we have solid melodies followed by some really bad ones. Overall, it's an interesting piece of work, but could have been given more production time to enhance some points.

Added to my playlist: We Can't Stop, Wrecking Ball and Do My Thang.

82

Es un buen álbum

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Track List

1Adore You
4:38
79
2We Can't Stop
3:51
82
3SMS (Bangerz)
2:49
57
44x4
3:11
feat. Nelly
64
5My Darlin'
4:03
feat. Future
63
6Wrecking Ball
3:41
87
7Love Money Party
3:39
feat. Big Sean
59
8#GETITRIGHT
4:24
66
9Drive
4:15
76
10FU
3:51
72
11Do My Thang
3:45
64
12Maybe You're Right
3:33
69
13Someone Else
4:48
72
Total Length: 50 minutes
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Added on: October 3, 2013