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Meghan Trainor's third studio album offers a new palette of different sonic constistencies layered in palpable modern pop textures drawing from 80s synthwave and funk influences, among others. Wave  sets the ground in the most sophisticated way possible, combining silky epic choirs and a dry distorted bass in a fascinating sonic conjunction. Kudos for the presence of an impressive novice artist (Mike Sabath). How can this be catchy, airy and finely shaped at the same time, is really striking. 8.5/10 Nice To Meet Ya immediately channels in a more mainstream sound, presenting a bubblegum tonal diminuendo behind the talked chorus which does remind the formula of David Guetta's Light My Body Up , also featuring miss Minaj. The strength of this track resides in the development of its structure. 7.8/10 Funk brings in the most praisable contaminations from 80's disco and, obviously, funk music. Highly groovy and hooky, its chorus is as simplistic as effective. As the ...

In her fourth studio album, Kesha tries to harness folk music with her old-school electroclash brand, occasionally succeeding. Tonight  opens in the same way as Poppy's I Disagree : a "buffet" track showcasing all the different elements that are going to characterize the entire album. Among these, crystalline power ballad choruses, folk-pop guitar arpeggios, saucy old-school electronic talk-raps, voguing-like rhyhtmic patterns and some deliberately harmonic dissonances. All of these in the same track, though, may be a little too much. 6.3/10 My Own Dance has the same self claim taste of her past song Woman, also exploring the same southern soft rock influences. Being as sassy as liberating, it can easily be her most finely balanced song to date. 7.2/10 Raising Hell  has very good moments but overall results unfocused. It would work very well for... let's say courtyard family party background uplifting music (?) but isn't really as memorable as a le...