FUXYA

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...

Making good music is not easy. The risk of being a critic is to unavoidably tend to appear overly picky, almost to an offensive extent regarding the effort that artists put in their work, depending on how their product resonates after birth. But, making very bad music is, similarly, not so easy too. In this dishonorable list, some of the basic principles and objective common sense have been ignored, having been replaced with a dose of bad taste and/or sleepy execution, along with insane ideas wildly disguised as avant-garde. #20 Britney Spears   -  Britney Jean  (2013) What should have been her "personal-album" manifesto-type then revealed itself as an inhomogeneous, odd mix of (her) early decade's eurodance night bangers and slower, softer, but equally dull slow tempos. Incapable to show a so coveted heartfelt-ness, Britney Jean is just an extremely tantalizing and confusing record. #19 Alexandra Stan   -  Unlocked  (2014) Wh...