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NME's Top 3 Pop Girl Albums of 2016
1. Beyonce - Lemonade (#11)
2. Lady Gaga - Joanne (#20)
3. Rihanna - ANTi (#40)
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#1 BEYONCE - LEMONADE
The work of a woman scorned, or a lavish promotional campaign? When the tunes are this good, who cares? Beyonce proved herself a force to be reckoned with on her sixth LP – her second visual album following 2013’s ‘Beyonce’. A breathtakingly broad work, it featured her first country song, contributions from Jack White, Kendrick Lamar and Father John Misty and a giant push for the Black Lives Matter protest movement. ‘Lemonade’ pitched Beyonce as superwoman, cultural commentator, political firebrand and total badass, and succeeded on all fronts.
#2 LADY GAGA - JOANNE
Following the conceptual excesses of 2013’s ‘Artpop’, Lady Gaga’s fourth album neither looked nor sounded much like a Lady Gaga album at all. Instead, for all its starry cast of A-list collaborators, ’Joanne’ felt more like the first Stefani Germanotta album: a more personal, stripped-back, soft-rock turn that revealed much about the woman behind the meat couture and Mother Monster persona. Gaga’s diva impulses were given free reign on tracks like ‘Perfect Illusion’ and ‘Come to Mama’, but it was ‘Joanne’’s quieter, more introspective moments that hit hardest and lingered longest.
#3 RIHANNA - ANTi
“Let me cover your **** in glitter/I could make it gold,” went ‘Anti”s SZA-featuring opener ‘Consideration’. Despite being one of the biggest popstars on the planet, with her 8th album, Rihanna proved that she wasn’t afraid of being a little weird, a little odd, a little grubby. Sure, there were bangers – ‘Work’ and ‘Kiss It Better’ for starters – but this was also a chance for her to let her freak flag fly, with low-key, spacious R&B, and moody, psychedelic funk.
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http://www.nme.com/list/nme-best-albums-2016-1869261
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