The Fifth
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80
It isn't art, but it is a hit-packed, goofy album that may prove impossible to dislike.
10y
60
Carve out the ultimate party EP, or consider the highlights too high to miss, because this is Dizzee at his breeziest and is best taken in little bits.
12y
60
It's not that it's a particularly bad album, just that the more maverick elements that gave Dizzee his engaging appeal have been ironed out, possibly in the hunt for a broader transatlantic audience.
3y
60
If all his fans want from Britain’s most charismatic rapper is big, chunky pop songs with catchy choruses and witty, fast-moving lyrics about nothing much at all, then Dizzee Rascal’s fifth outing will not disappoint.
8y
60
America is not exactly short of top-drawer rappers even before he’s let down by a woefully flat production.
5y
50
A derivative box-ticking exercise that features Dizzee going on about his “willy” a lot.
12y
45
Much of “The Fifth” [feels] more like faceless dance anthems with spurts of innocent rhyming, than a Dizzee Rascal album bursting with inventiveness and experimentalism.
1y
40
On The Fifth Dizzee Rascal succumbs to the worst stereotypes of rap music.
12y
40
Generally ... The Fifth‘s “dance” tracks – ‘Bassline Junkie’, ‘Something Really Bad’, et al – just seem too limp to succeed as radio hits, and they’re certainly not good or interesting songs in any other capacity.
12y
40
Mills' slightest work by some distance, The Fifth is evolution in reverse.
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3y
40
The Fifth sounds like half a dozen different [albums] squashed onto one record. Not good.
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3y
40
Gone, by and large, are the off-kilter sonic tweaks and pop experimentations of old in favour of derivative, dull and downright dismal tracks which rarely veer from the bloated straight and narrow. By the time you find Dizzee in raptures about fat bottoms on Arse Like That, you'll be looking for your money back.
3y
30
All ‘The Fifth’ confirms (and despite ‘I Don’t Need A Reason’ saying otherwise), is that Dizzee is now a proper rapper, laden with the boring traits and crassly conveyed topics that come with it.
11y
This sound has become dated enough for me to enjoy it in some half ironic half not capacity. This disgusting faux-edm iPod era stuff. The main song that'll exemplify this movement will be/is probably No Hands. As more time passes from any point in time hatred will subside and be replaced by raw nostalgia.
The most hated time in anything is always 11 years ago. That'd be 2014, putting this album just in the range of reverse nostalgia. I'd agree with that, Pop music from ... read more
Here's another album I bought in full when I was in 3rd grade. Oh boy...
This has easily got to be some of the worst aging material of all of 2013, it's just incredibly bland pop rap with a bunch of EDM tropes that were popular at the time. There's just not much charm to it at all. There's a song on this album about not just multiple asses, but ONE SINGULAR ass, and the way it's worded is just so unbelievably cringy and awkward it's not funny.
And because I literally heard two songs from ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Superman 4:31 | 38 |
| 2 | I Don't Need a Reason 3:17 | 50 |
| 3 | We Don't Play Around 3:08 feat. Jessie J | 47 |
| 4 | Good 4:01 feat. ANGEL! | 38 |
| 5 | Spend Some Money 3:33 feat. Tinie Tempah | 45 |
| 6 | Arse Like That 3:54 feat. Sean Kingston | 21 |
| 7 | Something Really Bad 3:40 feat. will.i.am | 19 |
| 8 | Goin' Crazy 3:24 feat. Robbie Williams | 43 |
| 9 | Love This Town 4:00 feat. Teddy Sky | 43 |
| 10 | H-Town 3:39 feat. Bun B, Trae Tha Truth | 51 |
| 11 | Heart of a Warrior 3:14 feat. Teddy Sky | 43 |
| 12 | Life Keeps Moving On 3:53 feat. Pop Wansel | 38 |
| 13 | Bassline Junkie 3:24 | 94 |
Total Length: 47 minutes
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1y
heart of a warrior not having a green rating is actually heresy, the bridge is perfect