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Old 06-12-2011, 15:03
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Listening to this beast of an album now, have to say it's his best album yet.

The album kicks off with the excellent singles "Hangover" and "Troublemaker", and both immediately set the tone for what's to come.

"There She Goes" is an excellent club banger featuring Pitbull, and the following track, "Shotcaller", follows in the same fashion.

"Make It Last Forever" and "World In Our Hands" are very much in the ballad style of his first ever singles, "I Just Wanna Know" and "Moving On".

"Tattoo" and "Play" keep the club bangers coming, with some excellent catchy lyrics. Tattoo does require a second listen though, not immediately sucked in by this one.

"You're Beautiful" and "Telling The World" finish the ballads on the album. Telling The World has been slightly remixed since it's used in Rio.

The album concludes with Cruz' David Guetta collaboration, "Little Bad Girl". And as it is one of the best song this year, it's a fitting conclusion.

Overall = 4/5.
Tracks To Download = Hangover, Troublemaker, There She Goes, You're Beautiful, Make It Last Forever, Little Bad Girl
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Old 06-12-2011, 15:45
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Is the album out already?
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Old 06-12-2011, 16:01
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Half of these demos leaked like 3 months ago...personally I think the album is a little generic, and the only impressive thing here is the production.

Taio's voice is awful and his annoying overdone American accent sucks the life out of all the songs...these songs could be a whole lot better with a more capable vocalist.

Shotcaller and Troublemaker are still sounding fresh despite leaking ages ago, although There She Goes sounds dated.

Tattoo is very good, though Dr. Luke's samey 'dubstep' sound is beginning to get tiresome.

Overall it's a very well put together album, but it seems to follow the trends rather than set them as he says in Shotcaller.
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Old 06-12-2011, 16:23
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I've just listened to Hangover, Troublemaker and Shotcaller. The music itself is fine in my opinon, although fairly generic sounding. His songs tend to have a bouncy, uplifting feel to them which I like. It's some of his lyrics that are a bit dodgy: "Your ass from the side looks just like a Coke bottle" He's excellent with the catchy choruses but his latest stuff tends to fall a bit flat in the verses I think. I still think Break Your Heart is his best song to date (without Ludacris).
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Old 06-12-2011, 17:42
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Hangover is bloody awful and Troublemaker isnt much better, i miss his old stuff the first 2 albums were amazing!
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Old 06-12-2011, 17:51
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From what I've heard it's just generic dance-pop. Nothing you can't get from anyone else in the charts :sleep:
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Old 06-12-2011, 19:35
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I think his first two albums are better.

He's doing a bit too much dance stuff, needs to mix it with the R&B if his first album. I do like the first 3 songs, they've grown om me.

I still need to listen to the others more to form a proper opinion. I don't think I'll be buying this, like I did with 'Depature' and Rokstarr' though.
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Old 06-12-2011, 19:56
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'Hangover' is one of the worst songs i've heard in years. Own his first two albums but i won't be buying this one.
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