🇺🇸: Nick remains a good songwriter, but this album feels lost in a purposeless sense of adulthood. It flows well and has small moments of lyrical beauty, but nothing that truly excites or builds a real connection.

🇧🇷: Nick continua um bom compositor, mas é um álbum perdido no sentimento de fase adulta sem propósito. Ele consegue embalar e tem pequenos momentos de beleza lírica, mas nada que realmente empolga a ponto de criar alguma conexão.

🇺🇸: It’s very much an album of its time, but it succeeds in bringing a bit more nuance beyond the mellow, romantic R&B that had already propelled the group to stardom. It’s not amazing, but it’s a solid experience from that era.

🇧🇷: É um álbum bastante do seu tempo, mas ele acerta em trazer um pouco mais de nuances além do R&B meloso e romântico que já havia lançado o grupo ao estrelato. Não é ... read more

🇺🇸: A great surprise! It almost feels unfair to be just an EP because it ends at exactly the right length, without the feeling of filler tracks, but still… how I missed innocent pop music. I really hope this is a genuinely promising beginning.

🇧🇷: Uma ótima surpresa! É meio injusto ser apenas um EP porque ele acaba na medida certa, sem a sensação de músicas feitas só para ocupar espaço, mas ainda assim… como eu sentia ... read more

🇺🇸: I don’t know where the album is trying to go; it feels like an unfinished collage. There’s a hint of Sabrina to it, which makes the album feel very contemporary, but it ultimately just seems deliberately misplaced. Louis’ vocals have never been among the strongest; he makes use of what’s interesting, but once again without a clear intention. There are good songs, though…

🇧🇷: Não sei aonde o álbum quer chegar, parece uma colagem ... read more

🇺🇸: A great selection overall. At times her voice falters quite a bit, which raises questions about when all the recordings were made, but it’s still coherent and strong enough to carry a short album that remains within the vigor of a samba legend.

🇧🇷: Uma ótima seleção; em alguns pontos a voz dela falha bastante, o que faz questionar o período de todas as gravações, mas ainda é suficientemente coerente e forte para sustentar ... read more

🇺🇸: It starts off very strong and holds up until the second interlude, after which noticeably weaker tracks follow. The highlights are the lyrics and the mix along with the production, especially considering it’s a Brazilian production with less resources than traditional.

🇧🇷: Ele começa bem forte e se mantém até o segundo interlúdio, que vem seguido de faixas bem mais fracas. O ponto alto são as letras e a mixagem junto da ... read more

🇺🇸: Nostalgia will always prevail with this kind of album, it's basically my childhood in a capsule. But setting that aside, it’s genuinely interesting how a musical soundtrack can have such memorable and varied songs, with the album’s weakest point clearly being the lack of budget to refine the production and mixing.

🇧🇷: O fator nostalgia sempre vai prevalecer nesse tipo de disco, basicamente minha infância numa cápsula. Mas deixando isso de lado, ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s a good album, but at times it feels monotonous, even boring. It has one of my favorite Disney lyrics, but that level isn’t sustained throughout the entire record. Parts of it also feel constrained by budget limitations, lacking the production value needed to reach the apotheotic effect it tries to achieve.

🇧🇷: É um bom disco, mas em partes ele soa monótono, até entediante. Tem uma das minhas letras favoritas da Disney, mas isso não ... read more

🇺🇸: The album has no real low points, but it does have some middling moments, and it’s largely carried by Olivia’s vocal momentum, which manages to hold the sonic cohesion together. Her voice is strong enough to act as a subtle counterpoint to the softness of the production. A solid album for a type of pop that’s long been distant from the current mainstream.

🇧🇷: O disco não tem pontos baixos, mas tem alguns pontos médios e é mais carregado ... read more

🇺🇸: The album goes around in circles, but it’s effective at reclaiming the roots of a period that also aligns with the beginning of his trajectory. It’s worth highlighting how well it manages to sound like a modern version of the genre, rather than a dated reinterpretation from 30 years ago.

🇧🇷: O disco dá voltas no mesmo lugar, mas é efetivo em resgatar as raízes de um período que também encaixa com o início da sua ... read more

🇺🇸: Everything feels kind of new to me, and my exposure to Marc has always been through his much more recent work, so I wasn’t expecting vocals this powerful here. Still, it makes sense that this would be his main highlight early in his career. It’s not my favorite genre, but it’s a very pleasant listening experience.

🇧🇷: Tudo é meio novo para mim, e meu contato com Marc sempre foi das coisas muito mais recentes e não esperava vocais tão ... read more

🇺🇸: There’s a bit of nostalgia involved here, but it’s hard for such a simple record to manage this kind of mix of influences and places. It’s a mess, but a wild mess that warms the heart.

🇧🇷: Tem um pouco de nostalgia envolvida aqui, mas é difícil um disco tão simples conseguir ter esse mix de lugares. É uma bagunça, mas é uma bagunça louca que aquece o coração.

🇺🇸: Even though her voice isn’t the most powerful or technically refined, it’s incredibly distinctive and perfectly suited to the album’s songs. It becomes just another instrument within the musical sonic chaos, which is extremely well produced.

🇧🇷: Apesar da voz não ser a mais potente ou tecnicamente qualificada, ela é incrivelmente marcante e encaixa perfeitamente nas músicas do disco. Ela se torna mais um instrumento dentro da ... read more

🇺🇸: Knowing her previous work, I understand where she’s coming from with the references, but Madison spent the last two years building a much stronger, more identifiable persona, with genuinely strong singles, so releasing an album that seems afraid to fully lean into the dance pop that brought her recognition comes across as inexperience. It’s still a good album, but the potential here was extraordinary.

🇧🇷: Conhecendo os trabalhos anteriores, eu entendo de onde ela ... read more

🇺🇸: Yes, the album is cliché, somewhat predictable, and clearly an attempt to gain artistic credibility to project a sense of importance greater than what actually exists. But calling it bad, or badly sung, just isn’t possible. I think it may be too long and repetitive, but it’s completely in line with its proposal.

🇧🇷: Sim, o disco é clichê, meio previsível, e claramente é uma tentativa de ganhar um respaldo artístico para ... read more

🇺🇸: My God, the voice… I genuinely thought it was a joke, a meme, but it’s terrible. How untalented do you have to be to turn such iconic Motown songs into dance tracks and make them this devoid of basic entertainment and quality?

🇧🇷: Meu Deus, a voz… Eu realmente achava que era uma piada, um meme, mas é terrível. O quão destalentoso você tem que ser para dance-ficar músicas tão icônicas da Motown e torná-las ... read more

🇺🇸: Rod’s voice here is already quite damaged, and the appeal of his rasp ends up going largely unnoticed. It doesn’t help that the production turns out to be as bland and uninteresting as possible. Even among his contemporaries at the time, it comes across as a questionable attempt.

🇧🇷: A voz de Rod aqui já está bastante danificada, e a graça da sua rouquidão acaba soando despercebida. Não ajuda o fato da produção acabar ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s complicated to judge an experimental album through the Pop lens I usually operate in, but despite enjoying the album’s atmosphere, I feel it lacks a bit of nuance. Maybe I expected more surprises given the producer’s pop work, but I can’t say that, despite the strong cohesion at times, I didn’t feel like I was listening to the same thing over and over, even if it was all pleasant.

🇧🇷: É complicado julgar um álbum experimental ... read more

🇺🇸: The cover is awful and messy, even though the singles at least have some visual personality. The album itself is passable; the kind of pop available to AC boybands is always very limited, and even with some effort on their part, nothing really connects with anything else. The idea of “reflections” just feels thrown in there.

🇧🇷: A capa é péssima e bagunçada, apesar de os singles até terem alguma personalidade visual. O disco por si ... read more

🇺🇸: Kid Laroi’s big breakup album keeps treading the same ground, both lyrically and sonically. There’s nothing outright bad about it, but it also doesn’t offer any major cathartic moment like the ones he’s capable of delivering within his Pop R&B lane.

🇧🇷: O grande álbum de término do Kid Laroi patina sempre na mesma região, tanto liricamente quanto sonoramente, não tendo nada grotescamente ruim, mas também não ... read more