🇺🇸: Snoop definitely has nothing to prove at this stage of his career, but this album is unnecessarily long, with weak tracks that should’ve been cut. It’s not a misstep, but it’s also not any kind of musical progress. It’s just a maintenance record, meant to keep his name and attention alive for a fanbase that’s no longer young enough to be chasing new idols.

🇧🇷: Com certeza Snoop não tem nada a provar nesse estágio da sua carreira, mas ... read more

🇺🇸: It sounds like a Hip Hop classic — and it truly is. Despite being long, you get the sense of listening to a complete work, not just a bunch of tracks thrown together. The lyrics are strong (and even hard), and the productions are striking and immersive. As a Pop listener, this late '90s period has been great for unveiling more from other genres.

🇧🇷: Soa como um clássico do Hip Hop e não é atual que o é. Apesar de longo, você tem a ... read more

🇺🇸: It works really well. Although it's not my style of music, my brother listened to a lot of Maná, so I have some familiarity with the vocals and the type of material. It fits well with other rock releases from the year, although it's nothing groundbreaking.

🇧🇷: Funciona muito bem. Apesar de não ser meu estilo de música, meu irmão ouviu bastante Maná para eu ter alguma afinidade com os vocais e o tipo de material. Combina bem com ... read more

🇺🇸: It's been years since I heard G-Eazy's voice, and I had forgotten that I actually find it quite pleasant. And even more surprising... the album isn't bad? It has a few flaws, but it's promising. Bonus points for not making a massive album filled with filler tracks just to farm streams.

🇧🇷: Faz anos desde que eu ouvi a voz do G-Eazy e tinha esquecido que eu a acho até agradável. E mais surpreendente... O álbum não é ruim? ... read more

🇺🇸: Quite boring. It's a very repetitive kind of rock, and I'm not much of a fan of Christian rock either, so that doesn't help. These are weak reasons to lead someone to explore the band's past, and the album feels pretty suffocating.

🇧🇷: Bem entediante. É um Rock bem repetitivo, e eu já não sou muito fã de Rock Cristão para isso também estar ali no meio. São razões ruins para levar alguém a ... read more

🇺🇸: It's almost like a meeting between the old festive Kesha and the more vulnerable Kesha we've come to know. There's an interesting messiness that makes sense within the whole context of freedom and independent release — which, in her case, also becomes a celebration. A good starting point.

🇧🇷: É quase um encontro entre a antiga Kesha festiva e a Kesha mais vulnerável que também passamos a conhecer. Tem uma bagunça interessante que ... read more

🇺🇸: I didn't expect the album to be this good. Yes, it’s 2Pac, but aside from the hits, this was the first album of his I actually listened to from start to finish — and I’m glad I did. Extremely well produced, well mixed, smartly written, and filled with strong vocal deliveries and valuable guest features. It's not the genre I know best, but so far it's one of my favorites.

🇧🇷: Eu não esperava que o álbum fosse ser tão bom. ... read more

🇺🇸: As a Pop guy, alternative and abstract music isn’t exactly what excites my ears, but I have to say it’s shocking how the album is actually interesting — especially its beginning. Mac was so talented, and above all, an artist with vision, which becomes clear with the release of this previously shelved project. Rest in peace, and may your art live on.

🇧🇷: Como um cara de Pop, música alternativa e abstrata não é exatamente o que me brilha os ... read more

🇺🇸: It's a slightly better album than the previous one due to having more strong tracks, even though they’re mostly the singles and the rest is largely filler. It has a greater vocal variety and maintains the same production cohesion, which wasn’t a problem in the previous one. Promising...

🇧🇷: É um álbum um pouquinho melhor que o anterior por ter mais faixas fortes, apesar de serem os singles e o resto em grande parte ser filler. Ele tem uma ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s a slightly higher score than they deserved, simply because I see some potential. But have people forgotten how to make boybands? Why use a cover with TEXT instead of the members’ photo—do they think carefree Pop is meant to be conceptual? WHAT concept, I ask... Complicated.

🇧🇷: É uma nota um pouco mais alta do que eles mereciam, apenas porque eu vejo algum potencial. Mas desaprenderam a fazer boybands? Para que uma capa com DIZERES sem foto dos ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s an album full of “misses and almost theres,” but the listening experience isn’t bad. It just ends up getting lost in the overall soundscape of ’95, though it has interesting moments. It remains quite repetitive, but Montell’s vocals are well used both in Rap and R&B.

🇧🇷: É um álbum bem “erre e quase acerte”, mas a experiência sonora não é ruim. Ele só acaba passando despercebido no ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s one of those interesting projects from the '90s, where a great vocalist takes control of the album with more contemporary production and a mix of Dance with other styles. Even though I’m almost certain it was a very one-sided contract, it’s nice to see the quality still holds up 30 years later—even if it was a “label project.”

🇧🇷: É um desses projetos interessantes dos anos 90, onde uma grande vocalista domina o disco com ... read more

🇺🇸: I put off listening to this album because I knew it would be immensely boring, given what I’d already heard from the group. And in fact, it’s not only boring but also incredibly long. There’s almost no atmosphere in any track—it’s basically tired vocals and poorly mixed guitars. Bad.

🇧🇷: Eu adiei ouvir esse disco porque sabia que ele seria imensamente entediante, dado o que já havia ouvido do grupo. E de fato, não só é ... read more

🇺🇸: It’s an interesting and cohesive concept, even though I only got to know the guest artist Hecto through this album. Ney remains with the huge vocals we’ve known for decades—something to praise especially considering how high his range is. Hecto, however, fails to fit in at times, as does the album’s production, which sometimes sounds repetitive and muffled.

🇧🇷: É um conceito interessante e coeso, mesmo conhecendo o artista convidado Hecto apenas ... read more

🇺🇸: The album is excellent—there’s a reason it was so successful. It’s an impeccable trio of: great compositions by Erasmo and Roberto at the peak of their work; a big, robust production with solid instrumentation; and an impeccable vocalist like Maria Bethânia, who is undoubtedly one of the greatest interpreters of Brazilian music.

🇧🇷: O álbum é excelente — há uma razão para ter sido tão bem-sucedido. É uma ... read more

🇺🇸: It's a good album, mainly because it's more of an evolution of the "Lorde sound" rather than a move in the wrong direction. It's a bit repetitive, which doesn't become tiring since it's short, and in terms of production there's nothing we haven't heard in Alt Pop in recent years, but it fulfills its purpose and is definitely worth a listen.

🇧🇷: É um bom álbum, principalmente por ser mais uma evolução do ... read more

🇺🇸: The concept is just "victory," with a string of clichés about money, bitches, church... It’s not enough to carry an 18-track album, even if it’s only 35 minutes long. A few good rhymes, some interesting beats, and many, many, many repeated linguistic crutches make for a record that ends up sounding generic despite showing some potential.

🇧🇷: O conceito é só "vitória", com uma série de clichês sobre ... read more

🇺🇸: It's always refreshing when a Pop legend—especially a vocalist—graces us with recent releases. The highlight here is Barbra’s collaboration with legendary voices and newer talents. However, beyond that, it's not much different from her other collaborative albums, and for the first time, there's a noticeably more apparent fatigue in her voice.

🇧🇷: É sempre refrescante quando uma lenda do Pop — especialmente uma vocalista — nos ... read more

🇺🇸: It's a bit disappointing after the first EP, which was better. It doesn't make sense to release a second one so quickly, especially a weaker one. The strongest tracks are clearly the ones with video treatment, and beyond that, everything else feels pretty average to bad.

🇧🇷: É um pouco decepcionante depois do primeiro EP, que era melhor. Não faz sentido lançar tão rápido um segundo, principalmente um mais fraco. As músicas ... read more

🇺🇸: I was caught off guard by how much Pop—or rather, K-Pop—quality this album had. Sure, the songs outside the context of the movie don’t have the same impact, but the point of a soundtrack isn’t to stand alone, it’s to complement. It’s a great way to connect the story and honestly… Soda Pop is pretty addictive.

🇧🇷: Fui pego de surpresa com tanta qualidade Pop – ou melhor, KPop – vindo desse álbum. Claro que as ... read more