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...Britney thanks her children for helping her through hard times, but her repeated cooing is more irksome than comforting. If you were worried that Britney couldn’t revive her pop career, never fear. “Circus” has all the ingredients for a successful album??it’s simple and catchy. But this success comes at a price. In relying on her body to revive a sterile formula, Britney does not go beyond the image that the media has made for her. If “Circus” is the new Britney...
...generic club rap album entirely devoid of the musical experimentation and rhythmic virtuosity that defined Common’s early collaborators. Early in his career, Common gained a reputation for focusing on social and political issues instead of gangsterism and consumerist machismo. From the first verse of his new album??s title track, it’s obvious that this has changed: Common now seems primarily concerned with “Body movin’, showin’, groovin’, stylin’, and bein’ fly.” This superficial self-promotion...
...never made an album better than their 1987 debut “Appetite for Destruction”—one of the best hard rock records ever—and has never written a song better than “Welcome to the Jungle,” that album??s unforgettable first track. Two decades and four albums later, the band has hit its nadir. “Chinese Democracy,” their first album of original songs in 17 years, is thoroughly forgettable, neither worth the wait nor the $13 million-plus Axl Rose...
...track on his bold new effort, “808s and Heartbreaks,” gets the Auto-Tune treatment: he’s foresaken rap, and his questionable singing chops are lazer-bevelled into serviceable shape by software. But take a closer look at this reinvention of an album??Kanye as solely-strings-and-synths balladeer?—and he’s still human. On second single “Heartless,” he confesses that he “lost his soul / To a woman so heartless.” But she didn?...
...Smith looks forward to the next world: Healy breaks off about singing “of the last words” to cede the spotlight to an unusual Andy Dunlop guitar solo. In “J. Smith”—the most experimental cut on the album??the protagonist tries to off himself. Beginning with 20 seconds of warring barebone guitar riffs, the song seems to settle into the traditional Travis formula of Healy’s voice over rhythmic guitar and piano. However, the song explodes as Healy, channeling Bob Dylan, belts...