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CRITIC REVIEWS
80
Overflowing with confidence, Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa conquer each track on The Album with their vocal ability (both singing and rapping) and effortless charm, switching up styles to offer something for every type of fan.
80
The K-pop group unleash an intense 24-minute bombardment of killer hooks and snappy detailing – but it’s a shame the lyrical topics are so narrow.
80
Blackpink offer a maximalist mashup of old ideas, reheated, retooled and regurgitated, with all the originality of a photocopy montage and all the emotion of a set of emojis. It is Britney Spearmint Bubblegum on steroids, a masterpiece of chewy pop banality, all sound bites and furry costumes, signifying nothing.
70
Simply titled The Album, the eight-song set is a slick, confident and wildly entertaining release from the biggest girl group in the world.
67
Where the album can get tired in production, the girls themselves are always there to keep you entertained. They’re master performers, with the vocal quality and skill to back it up.
60
The album feels stuck looking back to tried and true trends in both K-pop and Western pop music.
60
BLACKPINK's debut studio album is a bit too spotty for its size.
60
As a whole, the project accomplishes what seems to be BLACKPINK’s greatest goal; inspiring confidence, and injecting energy into the ears of their listeners, but it also falls flat in several spots.
48
There is roughly an EP worth of songs here that bring something remotely interesting to the table, rather than simply rehashing past ideas and reproducing beats you’ve heard in 100 other tracks before.
That was the longest 24 minutes of my life.
Jesus Christ, where do I even begin with this? Ugh, let's just get into it shall we?
1. The Lyrics - I don't know if it's unfair to critique KPop lyrics because I know there's going to be no real poetry in it but damn, this sounds like a middle school girl who listens to nothing but Ariana Grande wrote most of these lyrics. "Drivin though your puddles like splish, splash" - Love To Hate Me, I could show more examples but that's gonna take ... read more
I don't care about the hate, I saw these girls debut and I'm proud of them! This is a fun pop album, also the production is quite good, happy first album blinks!
Now that the bots are gone, I can finally talk about the album itself:
Wow, what an overblown and generic album Blackpinks debut turned out to be. I never really dug the group's "so confident that it almost becomes uncomfortably narcissistic" style but here it just proves to be even more unbearable and uninspired than on previous releases, with the features doing absolutely nothing to aid the quality of the album. The production also sounds like something I would have found stale in ... read more
Ehhhhhh……slightly better than KILL THIS LOVE EP
Number:#434
First Listen:2023.11.22
Times I Have Full Listened To:1
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Track List
| 1 | How You Like That 3:00 | 68 |
| 2 | Ice Cream 2:55 with Selena Gomez | 45 |
| 3 | Pretty Savage 3:19 | 62 |
| 4 | Bet You Wanna 2:39 feat. Cardi B | 41 |
| 5 | Lovesick Girls 3:12 | 75 |
| 6 | Crazy Over You 2:41 | 54 |
| 7 | Love To Hate Me 2:49 | 58 |
| 8 | You Never Know 3:49 | 57 |
Total Length: 24 minutes
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Added on: July 27, 2020