Honestly Jark is so dead on. Theres barely a melody on this album & feels very “loud” but not in a good ‘salute’ way. I don’t see many singles here & can 100% see why Syco didnt want ‘Strip’ at the first single. If I were them, I’d push ‘Monster In Me’ out as a winter ballad & then ‘Forget You Not’ as a third single then go away, relisten to ‘get weird’ and go back to making bouncy, pop music. I’m all for female empowerment but this record deels very Beyoncé / Rihanna leftovers.

Christ. Takes cues from 'Get Weird' i.e. the album that houses absolute monstrosities like 'Clued Up' and 'Weird People' (and the terminally dull acapellas)? It's legit their worst album and the exact direction they should steer clear from 7 years into their career.

The 'lack of melodies' criticism is so lazy and just plain... unfounded. I can see why it would sort of apply to 'Joan of Arc', 'Strip' and 'Wasabi', but are we really going to pretend the likes of 'American Boy', 'Forget You Not', 'Think About Us', 'More Than Words', hell even 'Woman Like Me' don't have the memorable, sing-a-long choruses LM are known for? It really just feels like people are clutching at the slightest reasoning to discredit this album. See also: 'lack of cohesion' and 'too American'. They're all such flimsy criticisms.

People can criticize the new album/single you know :')

saying there's barely a melody is a reach + a half. did you listen on mute?

Forget You Not (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

Christ. Takes cues from 'Get Weird' i.e. the album that houses absolute monstrosities like 'Clued Up' and 'Weird People' (and the terminally dull acapellas)? It's legit their worst album and the exact direction they should steer clear from 7 years into their career.

The 'lack of melodies' criticism is so lazy and just plain... unfounded. I can see why it would sort of apply to 'Joan of Arc', 'Strip' and 'Wasabi', but are we really going to pretend the likes of 'American Boy', 'Forget You Not', 'Think About Us', 'More Than Words', hell even 'Woman Like Me' don't have the memorable, sing-a-long choruses LM are known for? It really just feels like people are clutching at the slightest reasoning to discredit this album. See also: 'lack of cohesion' and 'too American'. They're all such flimsy criticisms.

I’d rather those two dud songs (i like WP TBH) than this clunky, melody-less record. I thought GD was a step down for them but this... i don’t even have the care to listen again. My fave is ‘monster in me’ & even then the clip made the song feel way more interesting than it is. Give me an album of Lightning, ADIDAS, Secrer Love Song, Black Magic, LMLY, Hair, Grown. God even listing these songs make me shudder to think of the new record.

Make sure you tell them when you next see them 👍

Also, did people really think that a highly promo'd album by Bublé wouldn't beat a less promoted album by LM? The last high profile televised performance was X Factor 3 weeks ago I'll be surprised if Bublé didn't get #1 tbh, even with the McIntyre performance from LM this weekend.

They're coincidentally #1 on Apple Music, where they had the Apple music festival promotion. So that did it's job.

I'm just intrigued to see sales. Anything over 60k and I'm happy.

*sells 24k*

Here's what I'd do as singles from now...

02. Think About Us > It's safe enough to get the stans they lost with WLM <
[s]03. Monster In Me > Perform at The Brits and if it takes off stick with it and then move on to FYB <
03. Forget You Not > BGT finals/June <
04. Wasabi > Oct to tie in with tour <
05. The Cure > XF final <