Surprisingly deluxe cuts like “Shanghai” help to at least end the album on a more exciting note. Not even a Katy Perry co-penned Ariana Grande track or a Beyoncé feature could bring the much needed high octane Dance Pop to the album which fans have grown accustom to from Minaj (see “Super Bass,” “Starships”).
The Pinkprint (a nod to Jay-Z’s The Blueprint trilogy) ends up being a serious R&B influenced sit down with Minaj’s emotional heartbreak and life struggles front and center. The Pinkprint by Nicki Minaj (December 15th)Īfter releasing and promoting singles like the minimalistically somber “Pills N Potions,” the heavily “Baby Got Back” sampled Hip Pop “Anaconda,” and the candid feature heavy Hip-Hop number “Only,” the overall sound of Nicki Minaj’s third album was still up in the air. From the quintessential wedding track “Thinking Out Loud”, Pharrell Williams-assisted jam “Sing”, to ode to self-sabotage, “I’m A Mess”, X plays on every one of your heart strings. With an acoustic guitar still at it’s core, X (pronounced as “Multiply”), does an incredible job at expanding Sheeran’s sound from his typical folk/acoustic tunes with its infusion of hip hop elements. The fiery haired crooner doesn’t disappoint with his sophomore effort.
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Please feel free to comment with your thoughts, as well! We’d love to hear from you and engage in any discussion. We love every album on this list, ranked them according to how much, and weighed in with a few thoughts about each. If you’re familiar with the way we review songs/albums, then you know that “97” is our top score. 1997, we chose the 19 “97” albums of 2014, which simply means the 19 best albums of 2014. Hopefully, this trend continues into 2015 and maybe we’ll see a rise in their sales to match the rise in quality.Īt EST. Cole and D’Angelo, musicians made a concerted effort to place more value on the album this year. From Beyoncé’s self-titled all-at-once surprise drop, to Taylor Swift’s refusal to put hers on Spotify, Mariah Carey’s insistence that we “experience the body of work” with hers, and the Beyoncé-like releases by Azealia Banks, J. Several of the albums on our list are to thank for that. While commercially that may not be the case with sales going down overall, artistically, the album had a bit of a rebirth in the last year. If anything should be noted about the albums released in 2014, it’s the fact that they seemed to matter way more this year in comparison to recent years.
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