Nick Murray
Jason Derulo jumps into every track with equal enthusiasm, his reassuring voice adapting easily to each new setting and providing continuity across the LP.
11y
True Colors, Zedd's second LP, includes songs about love, breakups and seizing the day, but the real subject is always his enormous beats.
11y
His debut album ... presents him as a nice-guy guitar strummer more influenced by the light acoustic pop of Ed Sheeran. And, like the British teen idol, Mendes has more rhythm than you’d expect.
11y
"Juicy Wiggle" makes the case that pop has been shamelessly silly all along, attempting an unlikely fusion of contemporary EDM and Fifties rock. This is how the hop would have sounded if your grandma knew about Jell-O shots.
6mo
Taking his own advice, the Miami rapper never stops the party, pulling together a set of inspirational hip-hop, wedding-ready pop and even Florida Georgia Line-style country reggae.
11y
Kenny Chesney's last album, 2013's Life on a Rock, was a foray into Bud Lime-tinged reggae that was at turns admirably ambitious and sort of disastrous. Here, he's back on more solid country ground with his strongest collection of songs since 2010's career-defining Hemingway's Whiskey.
11y
Sure, there’s a touch of hypocrisy in a guy as gloriously tacky as Al taking shots at the shameless but who really cares when it’s this much fun.
11y
At her best, J. Lo combines and energizes familiar dance-pop sounds to make music worth getting lost in (in 1999, "Waiting for Tonight"; in 2011, "On the Floor"). On her eighth album, however, she just sounds lost.
11y
On Mariah Carey's 14th studio album, stylistic cohesion is as elusive as the chanteuse herself.
11y
T.R.U. Story ... contains few surprises, and one less once you realize that its own opening line — “Cut the top off, call it Amber Rose” — isn’t threatening decapitation.
13y
Some tracks sound 25 years old and they’re one Martin Rushent assist away from being genuine synth-pop hits.
14y
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