They used to be good. What the fuck happened?

Bro just keeps evolving.

Some bangers, but overall overstuffed and disjointed.

There are adorably clumsy moments, but where it should be bad, it's awful.

Nothing impressive.

Paper Planes is definitely one of the most fucking annoying overplayed songs ever. The first four tracks are decent at best, but the rest of the album can pretty much just be scrapped.

If you’re going to talk big about politics, your music better match that ambition. Too bad it doesn’t.

Slop. Anyone surprised? And truth is, not a single one of M.I.A.'s albums throughout her career can be called good, mostly just decent.

It’s still the same old female singer-songwriter formula, but at least most of the tracks are genuinely lush and free of gritty roughness.

The whole album sounds so messy and cheap, and the lyrics are just there to patch it up. It’s just the same tiring formula from so many indie female singer-songwriters. Come on, why are you even hyping this shit?

Slightly better than its predecessor, but still nothing worth revisiting.

I’ve always found Mitski incredibly boring, but this one crossed my line. I almost slept through the whole album. Cmpletely unremarkable music.

It's a shame he really dropped the best songs as singles, the rest is just really meh.

Nope.

Watch the score drop to low 60s within 12 hours.

This is actually his best since Donda, even without counting any further necessary updates. Donda 2, Vultures 1 & 2, Never Stop... so there's really no suspense at all.

The mixing is still a big issue, and it's still full of obvious AI vocal. Still half-baked, as it was. The current version is more polished than the Music Video version released last year, but still not worth the nearly year-long wait.

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After his disastrous predecessor, I went into this album with the lowest expectations possible. And to be fair, this might be his best album since 哎呦，不错哦, if you treat 圣诞星  as a bonus track. Most of the improvements come from Jay Chou clumsily leaning into some modern, trend-following production of 派伟俊, a young composer (His own input is no longer a bonus point y'all know). Some results are downright terrible (圣徒, most lyrically), but it also provides ... read more

Total slop.

Woah. This is actually his best and most cohesive album. Instead of pursuing fancy conceptual packaging, it delivers a complete work of restrained production but well‑paced emotion.

The music isn’t all that diverse, but has never felt so consistent — except for 半兽人 and 龙拳.

忍者 is actually really good, but the rest is meh. 双截棍 is the worst nu-metal stuff I've heard in a while.

Decent storytelling bogged down by unbearably dramatic vocal performance.