After five years away ... Pink shows that she may just be getting this party started on her seventh LP, Beautiful Trauma.
With Beautiful Trauma ... Moore proves that she’s both still relevant, and a vital, confident female voice on the pop circuit who has impressively never really succumbed to the pressures of the overly-sexualised pop machine.
Maybe the culprit is that Beautiful Trauma feels too controlled, with every element in its right place. There's none of the emotional mess that has enlivened some of P!nk's best work, and while this sense of calm may be well earned, it does result in a tamer record.
Pink was dominating the charts with spunky, real-talking anthems back when today's slow-sad divas were in preschool, and her seventh LP is a reminder of that.
Beautiful Trauma's neat construction renders the album less than the sum of its parts, but individual songs work well enough, thanks in no small part to Pink's personality and charisma.
We get ... the nagging sense that we’ve been here before ... Overall, it does the job, but no more than that.
Many of these songs will slow down her famously explosive concerts but that won’t stop Beautiful Trauma from selling big.
The ballads were always the worst songs on her albums, and Beautiful Trauma is full of them. Which is a big problem: it’s just not beautiful or traumatic enough.
While there’s never anything wrong with a ballad-oriented album, such releases tend to have a mark of indulgence in them, tripping over the same themes more than a few times in the course of just a few songs, and Beautiful Trauma falls right into this trap, stacking sad serenades so closely together that they blur, leaving them not only a bit forgettable but also blunting any emotional impact they’re going for.
Beautiful Trauma’s preditably constructed empowerment songs simply aren’t strong enough.
* Beautiful Trauma (10/10)
* Revenge (7/10)
* Whatever You Want (9/10)
* What About Us (9/10)
* But We Lost It (8/10)
* Barbies (7.5/10)
* Where We Go (8.5/10)
* For Now (7/10)
* Secrets (7.5/10)
* Better Life (6/10)
* I Am Here (7/10)
* Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (9/10)
* You Get My Love (7.5/10)
* White Rabbit (7/10)
Nota Final: 79/100
I spent years anticipating this record and I was very disappointed, I remember unstanning her after this album came out but it grew on me over the year but I still think it’s her weakest album
Does this album heavily rely on formulas and old tricks? Yes. But she has mastered this sound so well that I don't even mind, although it's not a bold record or that different from her previous one (just a 2017 version), I still enjoy it a lot and actually think that it's one of her best albums, it's very consistent, she also gives some extremely moving vocal performances that mark her improvement as a vocalist.
Highlights: Secrets, Beautiful Trauma and What About Us.
This album is hard for me. It's a transition between good pop music and basic pop for GP. Album is nice but is it the Pink that I love? No. The thing is anyone could record this album . The only thing that's makes it better is Pink's voice which is powerful and glorious and it' also catchy.
01. Beautiful Trauma (9.0/10)
02. Revenge (2.5/10)
03. Whatever You Want (8.5/10)
04. What About Us (10/10)
05. But We Lost It (8.0/10)
06. Barbies (8.0/10)
07. Where We Go (8.5/10)
08. For Now (7.5/10)
09. Secrets (7.5/10)
10. Better Life (7.0/10)
11. I Am Here (6.0/10)
12. Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (8.0/10)
13. You Get My Love (5.5/10)
Does this album heavily rely on formulas and old tricks? Yes. But she has mastered this sound so well that I don't even mind, although it's not a bold record or that different from her previous one (just a 2017 version), I still enjoy it a lot and actually think that it's one of her best albums, it's very consistent, she also gives some extremely moving vocal performances that mark her improvement as a vocalist.
Highlights: Secrets, Beautiful Trauma and What About Us.
1 | Beautiful Trauma 4:10 | 72 |
2 | Revenge 3:46 feat. Eminem | 55 |
3 | Whatever You Want 4:02 | 67 |
4 | What About Us 4:29 | 71 |
5 | But We Lost It 3:27 | 61 |
6 | Barbies 3:43 | 64 |
7 | Where We Go 4:27 | 74 |
8 | For Now 3:36 | 61 |
9 | Secrets 3:30 | 67 |
10 | Better Life 3:20 | 60 |
11 | I Am Here 4:06 | 57 |
12 | Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken 3:21 | 65 |
13 | You Get My Love 5:11 | 48 |