🇺🇸: The Debut of the Queen of Pop is quite impactful and determined to make an entrance. The essence of who's Madonna is here, and it’s perhaps the most rightful self-titled album. It’s made to dance till the end, and despite clearly aiming at youth, there’s a lot to enjoy in the sound she creates. However, even though it’s a debut, it’s not a good entry point for listeners who aren’t familiar with the rawer club sound of the '80s.

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🇺🇸: For a confessional album, the volume of the choir is disturbingy loud. The vulnerability concept is easily understood through the body of work, but this glimpse becomes uninteresting as the same production style repeats throughout the 30 minutes of the record. The premise is there, but it wasn’t effectively carried out, and good songs get lost among others that needed more time to develop.

🇧🇷: Para um album confessional, o volume do coro é desconcertantemente alto. ... read more

🇺🇸: Two of my favorite Shawn songs are probably on this record, and I also believe it’s his best vocal delivery. But the album itself is lost, with no direction, no cohesion between the tracks, and some choices that are extremely questionable. He can’t decide whether he wants to be the guitar guy, the big fanfare master, or a pop "diva"... It just sounds comfortable, nothing more.

🇧🇷: Duas das minhas músicas favoritas do Shawn provavelmente estão ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s the quintessential pop of Katy, with no major risks, no huge hits, but a fairly enjoyable listening experience. It has aged a bit poorly compared to its predecessor, but still maintains the clear line of laid-back pop she set out to create (and maybe she shouldn’t have stopped it so soon), but small signs of sonic wear were already noticeable.

🇧🇷: É o pop quintessencial de Katy, sem muitos riscos, nenhum acerto absurdo, mas uma experiência ... read more

🇺🇸: I have to say that Kylie’s second album is quite... Complicated. It doesn’t understand where to go, the synthesized productions definitely don’t work with the cheesy ballads, and her strength, the Dance tracks, get lost in repetitions of sounds that feel like the same song.

🇧🇷: Preciso dizer que o segundo álbum da Kylie é bem... Complicado. Ele não entende para aonde ir, as produções sintetizadas definitivamente não ... read more

🇺🇸: The peak of the '90s era of great vocalists couldn’t have been more fittingly crowned with this album, which showcases Mariah's best vocal performance. In addition to the numerous musical nuances present in each track, it’s an album filled with hits and great sonic experiments, such as a subtle flirtation with R&B and Club music of the time. All of this without losing the signature sugary ballads.

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🇺🇸: Clearly Beyoncé's weakest album, it falters with some mixing issues, disconnected messages, and a vocal high register that isn’t as interesting as Beyoncé’s full vocal range. Yet, even in its flaws, she manages to stand out, deliver hits, and hint at the solo path she intended to pursue.

🇧🇷: Claramente o disco mais fraco da Beyoncé, peca em algumas mixagens, algumas mensagens desconexas, e um agudo vocal que não é tão ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s a good Holiday record, quite effective in its proposal and still bringing some personality. Mariah manages to be the "queen" of Christmas during the nearly forty minutes she sets out, explaining much of the connection she has with the season today. It captures the festive spirit well, though it’s not something I’d recommend for the rest of the year.

🇧🇷: É um bom album natalino, bastante eficiente na sua proposta e trazendo ainda alguma ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s a safe and basic Dance record, with no risks, no big hits, and a bit tedious. A little more interesting than the previous album, but still in the same cliché direction of being just a compilation of songs to justify big concert shows. Not something very important in the discography, but it could serve as an entry point for younger listeners.

🇧🇷: É um Dance seguro e básico, sem nenhum risco, sem nenhum grande acerto, e um pouco tedioso. Um ... read more

🇺🇸: This song is extremely Camp, it's a love it or hate it situation. If you don’t like hyper-dramatic pop, feathers, sequins, a choir of all the gays on Earth singing, and the final touch of a diva opera-style aria, then you won’t understand the beauty in this.

🇧🇷: Essa música é extremamente Camp, é ame ou odeie. Se você não gosta de hiper dramaticidade pop, plumas, paetês, um coro de todos os gays da Terra cantando e o ... read more

🇺🇸: It's as if we’re transported to a futuristic disco of nostalgia, with each sonic element taking over your body in a colorful ecstasy of lights. It’s a one-hour pop journey that’s definitely worth it. But that damn hidden track is responsible for lowering the rating, as it’s the only questionably mediocre thing in this masterpiece.

🇧🇷: É como se fossemos transportados para uma discoteca futurista de nostalgia, com cada elemento sonoro tomando ... read more

🇺🇸: We need a boy band in the 2020s, and they definitely WON’T be it. And this is coming from a user focused on Pop. It's not that they’re bad, they're not. But they still have a long way to go to sound even remotely OK. They need a Max Martin, Ian Kirkpatrick, Mattman & Robin... The issue lies much more in the music and how they use their vocals than in whether they deserve this opportunity or not.

🇧🇷: Precisamos de um boyband na década de 2020, e ... read more

🇺🇸: I'm unsure if Dua tried to bring something different in the type of pop sound she usually makes, or if she didn't try enough. The concept doesn't quite fit with the tracks, and everything feels a bit lost, from the cover to unfinished tracks in the record. It's lucky that she has such a strong presence to deliver something still effortlessly Pop enough despite these flaws.

🇧🇷: Fico na dúvida se a Dua tentou trazer algo de diferente no tipo de ... read more

🇺🇸: I imagined it would be of questionable taste, but I didn’t expect it to be really this Bad. I like Hilary's voice, but here it's a trainee who still doesn’t know exactly what to do. There are high doses of louder backing vocals, a plethora of cheesy holiday elements, and some of the most basic productions possible. It's really bad, there's not much more to say.

🇧🇷: Eu imaginava que ele seria de um gosto bastante duvidoso, mas não imagina ... read more

🇺🇸: Meticulously crafted to please both the simplest and most demanding ears. Not only is it a perfect pop album, but it also maintains the ability to invent and take risks with sound elements that, at first, seemed exhausted in use. From the hypnotic vocal synthesizers to the repetitive basslines, every sonic and vocal detail of this album deserves attention and praise for its impeccable quality.

🇧🇷: Meticulosamente artesanatizado para agradar tanto os ouvidos mais simples quanto ... read more

🇺🇸: Pop perfection at the highest level. There's not much to say, it's addictive, admirable, well-crafted, metrically inventive, and vocally hypnotic. It’s everything you expect from a rewarding pop song, and Kylie delivers it with a golden bow and sugar sprinkles.

🇧🇷: Perfeição Pop do mais altíssimo nível. Não se tem muito o que comentar, é viciante, admirável, bem acapada, metricamente inventiva e vocalmente ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s a masterclass in how to make a purely delightful Pop record. It’s spot-on, while also risky enough. But because of that, it falters by mixing excellent tracks with some that are just okay or almost enough ok. Overall, it's a quite superb album, I promise true blue — yes, I did that.

🇧🇷: É uma aula magistral de como fazer um disco de Pop puramente delicioso. É certeiro, ao mesmo tempo que é arriscado o suficiente. Justamente por ... read more

🇺🇸: I am fully aware that it's a simple song, pretty white doo-wop, the basics of what Pop basics can be. And yet, it’s completely captivating. There's a magic in that hopeful love that Madonna manages to convey, something that, in nearly 40 years of pop music, other artists haven’t been able to encapsulate still. I have to surrender to my heart...

🇧🇷: Tenho plena ciência de que é uma música simples, mega doo-wop branco, o básico do ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s not a bad album as some say, but it is relatively weak. It works within the late 2000s concept, but it doesn’t have the strength that a Madonna album should have. This makes it feel quite anemic when combined with the slightly dated nature it has acquired over the years. However, it's not a bad entry point.

🇧🇷: Ele não é um album ruim como alguns dizem, mas ele é relativamente fraco. Funciona dentro da proposta do fim dos anos 2000, ... read more

🇺🇸: As a Brazilian, I can say that this album is not exactly Funk. But it's an Urban Pop album with high doses of beats derived from the genre. This isn't new in pop music, but it requires native knowledge to bring it together in a good way. Anitta does this well at times, but she stumbles in some areas that try to achieve a repeated latin sound that doesn't work for her.

🇧🇷: Como brasileiro, posso dizer que esse disco não é exatamente de Funk. Mas ... read more