SOMEONE MESSAGE ME THE LINK ASAP. PLEASE!!!

Me too please! I'm trying to get it from SIN but "Too Many SINers" keeps popping up and I can't wait any longer :drama:

And anyone that says CTD is a filler is DEAD to me.

 

DEAD I SAY.

And anyone that says CTD is a filler is DEAD to me.

 

DEAD I SAY.

 

*dies*

btw, guys, the 'one of the boys' album rate results are coming shortly, rate if you haven't pl0x0rzz. :kink:

Been listening to this on repeat all evening, here's my full review:

 

10.0 Teenage Dream: By far my favourite song by her ever, somehow it's very emotional, it has that Late Summer favourite tv shows, walking on the beach in the sunset, graduation esque vibe to it, the chord sequence is incredibly simple yet it works.

 

09.0 Last Friday Night: Like the whole album campaign so far it's so effortless, so light, the saxophone is amazingly 90's and should be used in pop songs for often, it's missing that spark to make it amazing but another fresh Dr Luke/Max Martin production.

 

09.0 California Girls: One of the best tracks of the year, ever so overplayed now though, Snoop Doggs middle eight is a welcome addition rather than grating.

 

08.5 Firework: When i saw Stargate on the production credits i imagined with this being an uptempo it would something as generic as 'Beautiful Monster' but it's production is spot on, can never go wrong with Strings, the only thing that brings it down is the vocals which would be piercingly painful to listen to live.

 

03.0 Peacock: The album would be so much better without this dragging it down, and somehow what should be an energetic fun though ridiculous song comes across completely lifeless and is completely out of place.

 

09.0 Circle The Drain: Brilliant lyrics, it's really nice to hear her doing something a bit different rather, it doesn't feel forced, and it's surprsingly catchy.

 

08.5 The One That Got Away: It's all very sweet light pop again isn't it, rather odd choice having this straight after CTD, it's a decent song though, the production needed some more welly though.

 

08.5 E.T: Really wasn't a fan of this at first, it seemed like the weakest Dr Luke/Max Martin collaboration a while but it hasn't half grown on me today, it somehow despite being out of place sounds better in context listening to the album, catchychorus, big stomping beat, biggest grower.

 

06.0 Who Am I Living For?: Nothing special to be honest, it drags on somewhat though lyrically it's decent enough.

 

08.5 Pearl: Love how this builds up, it plods along nicely, one of the unexpectedly decent tracks on the album.

 

09.0 Hummingbird Heartbeat: A real 80's Don Henley, summer fading graduation vibe on this just like 'Teenage Dream' again, it's not as good as TD but its a lovely song and a future single.

 

08.0 Not Like the Movies: It's all very disney sounding, a pleasant ending to the album, there's no wow factor whatsoever but its nice enough.

 

Overall: A decent followup indeed, so many potential single choices are left and nice to see Stargate and Max Martin/Dr Luke changing up their game a bit to.

Hmm... can't say there's too many outstanding songs on this album for me. Considering the hype, I feel many people are just lost in anticipation, when you strip back the fact it's Katy and we all love her.. it's very much a solid sophomore effort but very little new ground has been covered, and occasionally that ground, well, it's covered in dog $h!t.

 

'Teenage Dream'. Brilliant. Should've been the first single, it shows Katy's non-auto-tuned voice off to it's maximum, returning her to her pop/rock roots. I hugely appelaing song many can relate to. With a massive chorus and more hooks than backstage at London fashion week, this is a bonefide summer anthem.

 

'Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)', well it's pleasing enough, loses a bit of the Katy charm we hear on 'Teenage Dream', but none-the-less, in definitely not a filler, more a pleasant, 'Bridge The Gap' to other songs; it's decent enough but nothing to write home about.

 

'California Gurls' sounds so forced she makes fun look as laborious as listening to paint dry. It's fun and party party party and all but, it just doesn't do much for me, not very credible, which is annoying seeing as it's Katy. Snoop Dogg can go shove it as well, he's not needed in the song at all.

 

'Firework', is pure, unabashed brilliance. Euphoric, eclectic, filled to the brim with hooks (both musical and vocal), it soars through a monolithic production with one of Katy's biggest vocal performances to date. Loving the strings, the stomping chorus and the fact it's the next single. Very good choice.

 

'Peacock'. Katy's rather suggestive 'Peacock' seems fun enough, with plenty of innuendos and controversy but unfortunately, it's about as useful as a condom machine in a monastery: it does nothing for the album and is so relentlessly unforgiving it just comes across as an offensive filler.

 

'Circle The Drain' Interesting concept but sorry Tyler, this is tragic. Katy may don a super-sexy alpha-female character but the profanity is unecessary - as it is on all pop records - and the over-use of auto-tune runs what the song had going for it straight into the ground.

 

'The One That Got Away' is one of the few love songs on this album that come across as properly heartfelt and credible. Only one quip with this song - the drums could be a little less militant, but otherwise, the chorus is perfect and Katy's vocals carry the emotion fantastically thanks the the lack of auto-tune.

 

E.T. (Futuristic Lover) is a puzzling one. Everyone hails it as the best thing since viagra but really? It's a very middle-of-the-road song with dreary verses and a chorus that, two seconds in, sounds amazing, then after the retriggering on Katy's vocals, it falls flat on it's face really. Monotonously sung (obviously to capture the song itself) but it just goes nowhere, and the most annyoing thing is, there's about 20 places in the song where it sounds like it's finally going to give that OOPMH, but it doesn't.

 

'Who Am I Living For?' is another obvious filler. Where is the chorus? It goes straight into it without so much as an extra guitar or synth. It's incredibly dull. Can't fault Katy's vocal's on this though, but it does sound like she's over-singing y'know? Like she knows the backing is so weak she's relying on her voice to inject some life into it? 'Flogging', 'Horse' and 'Dead' are three words that spring to mind.

 

'Pearl' is another peculiar one. The lyrics shine out as far more sophisticated than any other song on the album. It's a well-constructed ballad, but it doesn't have... that something... It relies on the (quite frankly) stunning lyrics and Katy's vocal performance to carry it's baggage. It lacks any memorable hook, and the backing could very easily go with any of the other fillers on the album. That aside, Katy's vocals actually do carry the song very well; this is easily one of the more listenable ballads.

 

'Hummingbird Heartbeat' has only one fault - it's Track 11. A track this bombastic and confident should be right up there with the likes of 'Teenage Dream', 'California Gurls', and 'Firework', and 'Last Friday Night T.G.I.F.' should be relegated to penultimate position. Rocky guitar, sweet lyrics.. it shouldn't work but it does... this is easily one the album's very few tracks to literally shout home about.

 

'Not Like The Movies' certainly earns it's place as the album's closer. Another heartfelt ballad, it's very wishy-washy and has some flawlessly beautiful lyrics, but we've now heard it all before - and not just elsewhere in pop music: elsewhere on this very album.

 

From an album that's had so much hype, it rarely manages to deliver the goods, well, to these ears anyway, and I'm no music snob I'll tell you now. It just feels like only a third of the album tracks are really credible and even fewer could make it as hit singles. Katy's already released two of those, and she's eyeing up the third, there's really only one or two more tracks she can milk from an album that's so unfortunately average. She's hasn't advanced forward, 'Teenage Dream' feels like 'One Of The Boys 2.0'; she rarely tries something new - sure she's made a few electropop stompers and that's all god and up-to-date and all but, now that everyone's doing electropop, she needs to add her own stamp to all of the tracks, and a few innuendos and naughty words isn't going to cut the mustard.

 

My Album rating: 6.7/10

Edited August 18, 201014 yr by OddOne

What a $h!t album, one of the boys was pretty good but I honestly cant stand this bar teenage dreams and E.T theres not a song that catches my attention.

OddOne you are crazy. Who Am I Living For? is the new greatest thing she's ever done. It's mesmerising. The whole album is spectacular. There's only one semi-filler (Peacock) which is still pretty good. The rest is the tits. Amazing production especially. Songs full of personality. New greatest popstar of the decade right here.

Really happy to see the love for 'Hummingbird Heartbeat' - anyone think it should be a single? :D

Circle The Drain, Last Friday Night & Peacock are amazing! ^_^ my favourites at the moment. Only song I've not warmed to is Pearl.

After listing to the album ALL day in between classes. Here is my score.

 

(08) Teenage Dream

(09) Last Friday Night

(10) California Gurls

(11) Firework

(10) Peacock

(10) Circle The Drain

(09) The One That Got Away

(11) E.T

(09) Who Am I Living For?

(09) Pearl

(09) Hummingbird Heartbeat

(07) Not Like the Movies

 

Firework and ET are PERFECT. Best songs I've heard in more then a year!

 

This is seriously my favorite album of all time after 'Blackout'. :love:

 

Not Like The Movies is like the "Why Should I Be Sad" of this album. But it is still a good song. Not ONE filler, imo.

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Edited August 19, 201014 yr by OddOne

No Jark I am not crazy. 'Who Am I Living For?' is not the new greatest things she's ever done. It's not mesmerising. The whole album is not spectacular. There's more than one complete filler on the album and yes 'Peacock' is one of them. The rest is not the tits. Production is only good on the songs that shine out. Definitely not the new greatest popstar of the decade right here.

 

Take a minute to think how arrogant I sound in the paragraph above. Well you sounded arrogant to me so I just retaliated similarly: no evidence, just opinion as fact.

 

Now think about how everything I said in that first paragraph can actually be completely true: music is completely subjective Jark, and that was my opinioin, but I don't go around preaching like it's God's will. My point is, in my opinion, there's not one outstanding track on the album after 'Teenage Dream' and 'Firework', 'Hummingbird Heartbeat' and 'The One That Got Away' come close, and they'd both make great singles Slowpoke, but everything else could've been written by a five year old ("I wanna see you peacock-cock-cock") or is just incredibly dull and has nothing besides Katy's voice going for it ('Who Am I Living For?')

 

The album has it's plus points, as does each song, but only rarely do all the plus points needed for a good pop song come together in one song: what some songs succeed in, others fail in; hooks; emotion; catchiness etc, etc. Only few songs have it all. I'm in agreement with J-o-e to some extent, nothing really jumps out and says "Don't change the track! Listen to me in full!" except for tracks 1 and 4.

 

So don't call me crazy, although I could be really arrogant now and say I'd expect it from you as your obviously a fan of Christina.

 

And to conclude... I'd rather go and download track 1 and 4 singularly rather than buy the whole album, and that's the test of a good album for me - whether I'll download the whole thing. The only album I've downloaded wholly in the past two years is the quite frankly AMAZING (in SO many ways) 'The Illusion Of Safety' by The Hoosiers.

 

Now THAT was an album that I was glad to see didn't leak. It's got ten or more outstanding songs, compared to Katy's two. Well done everybody.

Edited August 19, 201014 yr by OddOne

Me too please! I'm trying to get it from SIN but "Too Many SINers" keeps popping up and I can't wait any longer :drama:

 

that always happens to me too :(

Anyone have a link, please?

My rate as I'm listening:

Teenage Dream - 10

Last Friday Night - 8

California Gurls - 10

Firework - 10

Peacock - 10

Circle The Drain - 9

The One That Got Away - 8

E.T. - 11 :wub: :wub: :wub:

Who Am I Living For - 8

Pearl - 10

Hummingbird Heartbeat - 10

Not Like The Movies - 10

Perfect :wub: No filler whatsoever, all tracks could easily be a single! My fave album of the year, deffo! And one of all time :heart:

Listened to it last evening and it sounded proper great :wub:

Her voice does irritate me a bit at times, but the songs are great. Should do a proper review later on !

Get off your high horse, Odd One. It's fucking boring for the rest of us who don't take everything quite so seriously.

I'm struggling to get into the fan favourites - E.T. and Hummingbird Heartbeat, as much as I probably should. Other songs are growing though, notably Firework and The One That Got Away. I personally still prefer One Of The Boys though. Updated rate;

 

9.0 Teenage Dream

9.5 Last Friday Night

10.0 California Gurls

9.0 Firework

7.5 Peacock

7.0 Circle The Drain

9.0 The One That Got Away

8.0 E.T

7.0 Who Am I Living For?

8.0 Pearl

8.0 Hummingbird Heartbeat

8.5 Not Like the Movies

 

LOVING Last Friday Night though, works very well and is simple yet catchy, with nods to the 90's pop she was talking about this album being influenced by. I can only see the first four tracks and The One That Got Away going down as songs I'll play over and over again though, joining I Kissed A Girl, Hot 'N' Cold, Thinking Of You, One Of The Boys, Self Inflicted and If We Ever Meet Again.