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60
He seems like a featured artist on his own album, which would be standard issue for other producers turned artist, but not Guetta.
11y
60
That’s where Listen falls short. Despite its all-but-guaranteed success, it may not bring Guetta anywhere he hasn’t already been over the past 30 years.
11y
60
Each track has the invention to be a smash hit but the cumulative effect is rather wearing, an album of no emotional depth, in which everyone is going all out to deliver the big single.
8y
60
While it lacks cohesion, Listen is a polished production on which the Frenchman’s signature dance-pop lurks a little more discreetly in the background.
5y
50
‘Listen’ speckles similar crackers (‘Goodbye Friend’, ‘Hey Mama’) between gushes of sizzle sewage, as if all of Ibiza’s been trying to get high on glittery laxatives.
11y
50
The songwriting remains basic ... But the album sounds consistently great, achieving 3D spatiality that works for earbuds and stadiums alike.
11y
50
What the record lacks is intimacy and a moment's stillness – everyone is charging ahead.
6y
40
Listen still delivers the familiar crowd-pleasing builds and drops, the formulaic song structures.
8y
40
There’s some perfectly good pop production on show here, but it’s overshadowed by the desire to weld the ill-fitting trademark builds, compressed kicks and swarming synths on to everything in sight.
6y
40
For the most part ... Listen is a plodder rather than a thriller, a run of tracks which sound half-cooked and unfinished rather than bursting with vim and vigour.
3y
10
Even in this lighter mode, the music only serves to kick more dirt on EDM’s grave.
11y
Finished my First Listen. I prefer this to the album before this but there is a lot of songs that just don't hit but some album tracks are worth listening to. The bridge on 'Bang my head' is so great, Sam Martin does well on both songs he's featured on, and Hey mama is another catchy banger.
Favs: Dangerous, Bang my head, Hey Mama
Least Fav: Yesterday
Well… I kind of wish I didn’t listen. Guetta’s been in the game for a long time, but the real question is — has he ever really stepped it up? With Listen, the answer is a pretty clear no.
Clocking in at 14 tracks and nearly 50 minutes, this album somehow feels even longer than that. There’s just not enough here to keep you truly engaged. The production feels generic, uninspired, and formulaic like Guetta was just checking boxes rather than really giving it his ... read more
Probably the only David Guetta I recommend for an EDM binge. Still, he feels like a feature on his own album and some songs were carried by Avicii and others production.
Best Songs: What I Did for Love, Lovers on the Sun, Bang My Head, Sun Goes Down, Stop
Worst Song: Hey Mama (So annoying and overrated!!!)
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Track List
| 1 | Dangerous 3:23 feat. Sam Martin | 77 |
| 2 | What I Did for Love 3:27 feat. Emeli Sandé | 62 |
| 3 | No Money No Love 3:57 | 50 |
| 4 | Lovers on the Sun 3:23 feat. Sam Martin | 76 |
| 5 | Goodbye Friend 3:49 feat. The Script | 51 |
| 6 | Lift Me Up 3:58 | 49 |
| 7 | Listen 3:46 feat. John Legend | 55 |
| 8 | Bang My Head 3:53 feat. Sia | 63 |
| 9 | Yesterday 4:03 feat. Bebe Rexha | 48 |
| 10 | Hey Mama 3:12 | 67 |
| 11 | Sun Goes Down 3:31 feat. MAGIC!, Sonny Wilson | 49 |
| 12 | S.T.O.P 3:34 feat. Ryan Tedder | 53 |
| 13 | I'll Keep Loving You 3:08 feat. Birdy, Jaymes Young | 51 |
| 14 | The Whisperer 3:54 feat. Sia | 57 |
Total Length: 50 minutes
By Banana_Duck
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