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Album: Miley Cyrus - 'Bangerz'
Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by BlackJesus
Slay Bitch Slay. I haven't taken this album off of repeat since the stream  |
same she's now my #! artist on my "LastFM"
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Originally posted by BadBoy
same she's now my #! artist on my "LastFM"
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she's #20 on mine  She has about 8,000 more plays to go to surpass Britney.
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Originally posted by BlackJesus
she's #20 on mine She has about 8,000 more plays to go to surpass Britney. |
well I just made an account 2 month ago...
but still 
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Originally posted by BadBoy
well I just made an account last month but still |
But my Last.FM is ****ed up. It says i've played 4x4 14 times. I've actually played it 69  times
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Originally posted by BlackJesus
But my Last.FM is ****ed up. It says i've played 4x4 14 times. I've actually played it 69 times |
oh.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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iTunes- Bangerz is #4, and #45
Amazon - #6 and #65
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Originally posted by CORNET
Will this be on itunes tonight?
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All Music Guide gives the album 3.5/5 stars:
After the release of Can't Be Tamed, Miley Cyrus took a break from singing and focused on her film career for a few years, allowing her to make a big comeback to music at the tender age of 20. Like so many Disney starlets, Cyrus needed to distance herself from her tween pop past; Can't Be Tamed tiptoed toward a more adult persona, but Bangerz kicks down the doors. This is her first non-Disney album, and in many ways it feels like a debut, an R&B and hip-hop-tinged coming-out party that introduces Miley as an A-list pop star. Bangerz's guest list is packed with star producers, including Pharrell Williams and Mike Will Made-It, and vocalists like Britney Spears, who cameos on the fizzy "SMS (Bangerz)." Cyrus has taken cues from more established pop stars in the past -- Can't Be Tamed often evoked Ke$ha -- but one of the models for this album is clearly Rihanna. Miley's summer 2013 hit "We Can't Stop" was even originally offered to Rihanna, and they share a nasally buzz in their singing and a commitment to partying in their songs (if possible, "Love Money Party" sounds even more like a Rihanna-be than "We Can't Stop"). Bangerz's take on R&B is most convincing when it's balanced with Cyrus' country and pop roots, as on the Pharrell productions "4x4," an improbable but entertaining piece of country-rap featuring Nelly, and "#GETITRIGHT," which is so bouncy it almost sounds innocent despite Miley's insistence that she wants to be naughty. Cyrus and company also spend plenty of time sampling other early-2010s trends, whether it's the wobbly, dubstep-like synths on "Drive" or the EDM-leaning ballad "Someone Else," but on every track, she sounds more mature than ever before. Despite its flashier moments, there are also plenty of ballads, something hinted at by the album's second single, "Wrecking Ball." Bangerz even opens with a slow song (the unabashedly romantic "Adore You"), which in its own way is almost as bold a move as the publicity events that preceded the album's release. Brassy empowerment jams like "Maybe You're Right," "Do My Thang," and "FU" sell Cyrus as an independent woman, and the album accomplishes that mission: Bangerz transforms Miley into a pop star who won't -- and can't -- be ignored as she rings in her twenties.
Slant gives the album 3.5/5 stars:
With her fourth album, Bangerz, Miley Cyrus has truly popped a wheelie on the zeitgeist, pillaging and pointing to every corner of pop culture in a haze of pure id. While Cyrus's recent work and appearances have been lambasted as contrived provocation, her new album reveals, quite remarkably, that at the heart of her outlandish behavior is a newfound sense of independence. Bangerz is an album that, on just about every track, explores what it means to live in the moment, indulge baser impulses, and suffer the consequences later.
While much of the album blends dance and hip-hop, borrowing from the likes of Ke$ha and Nicki Minaj, it begins with "Adore You," a simple, relatively barebones ballad about destructive dependence in which Cyrus belts outs lines like "When you say you need me/Know I need you more/Boy, I adore you." The singer elevates these potentially tired themes by finding a careful balance of vulnerability and strength.The rest of Bangerz works to subvert traditional gender roles and establish a vision of female autonomy. On the hit single "We Can't Stop," Cyrus lays out her version of girl power: "It's our body/We can do what we want to/It's our house/We can love who we want to/It's our song/We can sing if we want to/It's my mouth/I can say what I want to." This isn't just a simple hook about girls singing along to songs at parties; it's also an anti-****-shaming assertion of female independence.
The fact that the statement is planted
in the middle of a cloud-rap party-banger aesthetic in which women are typically props only serves to further bolster Cyrus's message
Elsewhere, Cyrus explores ideas of femininity with a sinister, determined edge. "4x4" is like Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" as told from the perspective of the other woman, and Cyrus revels kicking up dirt as the offending party. "I'm a female rebel, can't you see?/Ridin' 'round your backyard to the beat," she sings over a stomping country/hip-hop hybrid beat. The amalgamation of popular genres she employs throughout the album is perhaps best executed on "FU," an unexpected fusion of Amy Winehouse and Skrillex's styles, with Cyrus playing the femme fatale with an exaggerated Southern drawl, ready to rip into male suitors and their tired pick-up lines. "I've got two, two, two letters for you/One of them is F, and the other is U" may not be wittiest couplet, but when sung by Cyrus atop a heavy dubstep wobble, it feels biting and ferocious.
While Bangerz is certainly admirable for its attempts at propagating a message of empowerment, it also succeeds as a straightforward party album, from the Auto-Tuned Euro-house jam "SMS (Bangerz)," features a guest spot from Britney Spears, to "Drive," which pulses and swirls like sweaty bodies on the dance floor. "#GETITRIGHT" is a sexy slice of pop-funk whose lyrics boast a raunchy but refreshing display of female sexual agency: "I'm dancing in the mirror/I feel like I got no panties on/I wish that I could feel ya/So hurry, hang up that damn phone."
A few tracks find Cyrus genre-hopping without any clear focus, like the tedious and cliché "Love Money Party" and the rote "Maybe You're Right," but they're outliers on an otherwise consistent, and consistently surprising, album. Bangerz is a personal, idiosyncratic effort that finds equal rewards in twentysomething indulgence and inspiring "be yourself" mantras.
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I wish this was out tonight instead of tomorrow night.
Why is it that certain artists release on Mondays & most others release on Tuesdays?
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Originally posted by Slow Down
I wish this was out tonight instead of tomorrow night.
Why is it that certain artists release on Mondays & most others release on Tuesdays?
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because some need the extra day of sales to help Miley does not
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Member Since: 12/30/2011
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I'm so anxious to listen to the album. I've only listened to the singles so far. I'm like dying to hear the rest.
Also did her metacritic score change or is it still 73?
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Bang bitch, you think i'm strange bitch, bananas like a ****ing orangutan bitch.
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Yas to slant giving her 3.5 stars! 
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Originally posted by Slow Down
I wish this was out tonight instead of tomorrow night.
Why is it that certain artists release on Mondays & most others release on Tuesdays?
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Everyone released on Monday last week because it was the last day of Grammy qualifications. If they released on Tuesday then they'd have to wait to submit the album for 2015 like Miley and Katy will have to do
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I work at HMV and I'm honestly going to promote this on Tuesday.
"Are you sure you don't want a copy of bangerz with that"
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Maybe Youre Right>>>>>>>>SMS>>>FU>>>On My Own>>>>4x4>>>>Drive>>>>>Someone Else>>> the rest
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by BadBoy
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QUEEN.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Ripedie254
Maybe Youre Right>>>>>>>>SMS>>>FU>>>On My Own>>>>4x4>>>>Drive>>>>>Someone Else>>> the rest
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THE WHOLE ALBUM IS AMAZING THO
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