Might as well end 2019 now; album of the year is already wrapped up :wub:

7.0 Imagine

6.0 Needy

6.5 NASA

9.5 Bloodline

7.5 Fake Smile

9.0 Bad Idea

6.0 Make Up

7.5 Ghostin

7.0 In My Head

4.0 7 Rings

10 Thank U, Next

8.5 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored

 

Nothing matches the sublime No Tears and God Is A Woman but decent nonetheless. Echo the comments saying Bloodline and Bad Idea for singles.

Love this Album :wub: As a whole I think it’s much better than Sweetner (which I actually grew to really like in the end ) but this album is a lot more cohesive and just more bops I could see being singles .

Edited February 8, 20196 yr by troylovesmusic

Needy is incredible, I love it so much :wub:

 

Break Up was such a bad choice, what was she thinking? Just release Needy pls.

 

09.0 Imagine

11.0 Needy

09.5 NASA

08.5 Bloodline

08.5 Fake Smile

08.0 Bad Idea

09.0 Make Up

10.0 Ghostin

09.5 In My Head

10.0 7 Rings

10.0 Thank U, Next

07.0 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored

 

 

Do we know if HMV is stocking it? I know they were having issues getting new releases whilst they were in administration

I believe we are!! :D

I’m judging anyone who says that Needy is bad

09.0 Imagine

09.5 Needy

09.0 NASA

11.0 Bloodline

08.0 Fake Smile

10.0 Bad Idea

08.5 Make Up

09.0 Ghostin

07.0 In My Head (Only song I think is a bit meh, this albums I Don't Care pardon the pun.)

10.0 7 Rings

10.0 Thank U, Next

08.5 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored

clicked with this straight away, can't get into 'Sweetner' much at all apart from the singles but I'm onto my 3rd full listen of this already, add NMTLTC, Breathin and GIAW to this and its a full packed album. Make Up the only slight let down for me

 

8.0 Imagine

9.5 Needy

9.0 NASA

8.5 Bloodline

8.0 Fake Smile

11.0 Bad Idea

7.0 Make Up

9.0 Ghostin

8.5 In My Head

9.0 7 Rings

9.5 Thank U, Next

11.0 Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored

 

It’s so hard to pick a favourite from this. If I had to chose I would probably say Ghostin. She sounds so beautiful on that.

Wow. There’s no bad songs on the album at all!

 

Fake Smile stood out to me the most on first listen but I’ll properly rate them after the weekend when all the new tracks have properly sunk in.

 

A strong album though and I’m so glad I finally get an Ariana album with no features!!

Ghostin is one of the best things she's ever done. There are a lot of strong songs here - the last minute of Bad Idea is a moment.

 

7 Rings remains terrible and Break Up... is barely mediocre. Neither songs sell the album well at all, despite their inevitable success.

 

Ghostin samples a Mac Miller song MY HEART

Finally listening to the album and it's SO GOOD.

 

NASA, Bloodline and Bad Idea *.* Bloodline is the Side To Side post album type of smash she needs tbh.

 

Needy is nice, but it's very "extended intro".

It's crazy how much better this album is than Sweetener. I feel like this album with the Sweetener singles and "everytime" would have been incredible!

The album is good, but "Bloodline" and "Bad Idea" stand out massively amongst the other album tracks, none of which are amazing for me apart from maybe Needy. Sweetener was actually better imo aha.

 

09 Imagine

08 Needy

06 NASA

10 Bloodline

05 Fake Smile

09 Bad Idea

06 Make Up

06 Ghostin'

07 In My Head

08 7 Rings

09 Thank U Next

07 Break up with your girlfriend, I'm Bored

This is is up there with sweetener for me I never really got the sweetener shade!

 

For me bad idea is my least favourite on the entire album gave it three listens now and that’s definitely the one i clicked least with so i hope it’s not a single. .

 

bloodline, fake smile, ghostin and in my head are all sublime though :heart:

 

needy and NASA are enjoyable too but both ended too soon for me both could’ve easily been a minute longer.

 

Her vocals on ghostin are just perfect and that Mac sample makes it all the more special :heart:

 

on another note it’s not a big deal but I think I’ll totally revise the track orders on my iTunes for this, I done the same with sweetener too :lol:

 

aside from that though it’s a solid album. Far better than My Everything and Dangerous Woman and up there with Sweetener and Yours Truly.

Edited February 8, 20196 yr by Jordan Lee

Also the fact that this album was recorded so soon the quality was so high!

bloodline is that SONG omg!! :wub:

 

The album as a whole is definitely stronger than Sweetener, dare I say it could be her second best album yet (Dangerous Woman is very hard to beat)??

07.0 Imagine

06.5 Needy

08.5 NASA

10.0 Bloodline

08.0 Fake Smile

10.0 Bad Idea

06.5 Make Up

09.0 Ghostin'

07.0 In My Head

08.0 7 Rings

09.0 Thank U Next

07.5 Break up with your girlfriend, I'm Bored

 

Based on a couple of listens. Solid and consistently strong. I feel like majority of these are gonna be growers though. 'Ghostin' is really stunning. I feel like overall it's on a par with 'Sweetener'? I feel like she took the 'R.E.M' sound for this album and made it less bland!

I'd rank the album after a few listens:

 

01 bad idea (10/10)

02 bloodline (10/10)

03 thank you, next (10/10)

04 break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored (10/10)

05 NASA (9/10)

06 7 rings (9/10)

07 fake smile (8/10)

08 needy (7.5/10)

09 ghostin' (7.5/10)

10 in my head (7/10)

11 imagine (6.5.10)

12 make up (5/10)

 

Bad Idea / NTLTC (with video intro) as a pairing on an album would've been so iconic and a career defining combo. Shame they're on different albums lmao.