Albums : Selena Gomez : Stars Dance
Albums : Selena Gomez : Stars Dance
Listen To Selena Gomez : Stars Dance
Selena Gomez showed off her stems in a red lace Dolce & Gabbana mini dress at the ESPY Awards in LA on Wednesday. She arrived solo for the event despite rumors that she's reunited with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber, and seemed to be having a ball while posing with handsome NFL players Victor Cruz and Colin Kaepernick backstage at the show.
Selena touched down in LA earlier this week, just in time to present an award onstage at tonight's ceremony. She's been prepping for the release of her album, Stars Dance, on July 23 — just one day after her 21st birthday — but took time out of her schedule to pay tribute to her Monte Carlo costar Cory Monteith after his death, tweeting, "This hurts. I love you Cory. Rest in peace."
Stars Dance Review
Out of the pop princesses to ascend to stardom from the Disney universe, Selena Gomez is by far the most enigmatic: She doesn’t have Miley Cyrus‘ wild streak nor Demi Lovato‘s transparency. Technically, too, she is not the most skilled, but one thing is certain — she knows her way around a big pop tune. You don’t need to know her to know that “Love You Like A Love Song” is fantastic, but it’s easy to want to. Nobody manages to walk the line between being so impersonal and so likable at once.
As an artist, though, she’s always had an unexpected tendency toward experimentation — “Middle of Nowhere,” off When The Sun Goes Down, sounds like Ladytron, and “Whiplash” could have come from Richard X‘s back catalogue. That remains true on her new album Stars Dance, out July 23, which zips from appropriating one genre (Bhangra!) to another (dancehall!) while maintaining a consistent pop throughline.
The stomping and clapping beat of opening track “Birthday” borders on Diwali, while the faux island swagger of “Like A Champion” is absurdly charming. “Slow Down,” produced by The Cataracs, was a smart choice for a next single, although “Save The Day” covers much of the same ground, big dance banger-wise (not that you can have too many of those), differentiated by its squelchy, stuttering electro chorus; by the same token, by the time “Undercover” rolls around, it’s begun to wear a little thin. Even if that song has the coolest moment on here — the “All to myself” pre-chorus vocal is genius — all those similar dance beats have started to feel a little dreary, a little monotonous.
There are still plenty of sharp moments. The title track is a brilliant swirling nugget and “B.E.A.T.” is appealingly weird and slight, but “Come & Get It,” with its hypnotic rhythm and nonsensical hook, begins to feel like the best thing here, and probably is. Mercifully, “Love Will Remember” in its album version is spared the Justin Bieber voicemail opening that I found so stomach-turning in demo form, which makes the song probably her most heartrending since “Who Says.”
It doesn’t feel like an artistic statement; it doesn’t resemble any kind of cohesive whole; it doesn’t matter. Her fans will be satisfied. The songs will continue to demolish the dance charts, in all likelihood. Everybody wins.
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Listen To Selena Gomez : Stars Dance
Selena Gomez showed off her stems in a red lace Dolce & Gabbana mini dress at the ESPY Awards in LA on Wednesday. She arrived solo for the event despite rumors that she's reunited with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber, and seemed to be having a ball while posing with handsome NFL players Victor Cruz and Colin Kaepernick backstage at the show.
Selena touched down in LA earlier this week, just in time to present an award onstage at tonight's ceremony. She's been prepping for the release of her album, Stars Dance, on July 23 — just one day after her 21st birthday — but took time out of her schedule to pay tribute to her Monte Carlo costar Cory Monteith after his death, tweeting, "This hurts. I love you Cory. Rest in peace."
Stars Dance Review
Out of the pop princesses to ascend to stardom from the Disney universe, Selena Gomez is by far the most enigmatic: She doesn’t have Miley Cyrus‘ wild streak nor Demi Lovato‘s transparency. Technically, too, she is not the most skilled, but one thing is certain — she knows her way around a big pop tune. You don’t need to know her to know that “Love You Like A Love Song” is fantastic, but it’s easy to want to. Nobody manages to walk the line between being so impersonal and so likable at once.
As an artist, though, she’s always had an unexpected tendency toward experimentation — “Middle of Nowhere,” off When The Sun Goes Down, sounds like Ladytron, and “Whiplash” could have come from Richard X‘s back catalogue. That remains true on her new album Stars Dance, out July 23, which zips from appropriating one genre (Bhangra!) to another (dancehall!) while maintaining a consistent pop throughline.
The stomping and clapping beat of opening track “Birthday” borders on Diwali, while the faux island swagger of “Like A Champion” is absurdly charming. “Slow Down,” produced by The Cataracs, was a smart choice for a next single, although “Save The Day” covers much of the same ground, big dance banger-wise (not that you can have too many of those), differentiated by its squelchy, stuttering electro chorus; by the same token, by the time “Undercover” rolls around, it’s begun to wear a little thin. Even if that song has the coolest moment on here — the “All to myself” pre-chorus vocal is genius — all those similar dance beats have started to feel a little dreary, a little monotonous.
There are still plenty of sharp moments. The title track is a brilliant swirling nugget and “B.E.A.T.” is appealingly weird and slight, but “Come & Get It,” with its hypnotic rhythm and nonsensical hook, begins to feel like the best thing here, and probably is. Mercifully, “Love Will Remember” in its album version is spared the Justin Bieber voicemail opening that I found so stomach-turning in demo form, which makes the song probably her most heartrending since “Who Says.”
It doesn’t feel like an artistic statement; it doesn’t resemble any kind of cohesive whole; it doesn’t matter. Her fans will be satisfied. The songs will continue to demolish the dance charts, in all likelihood. Everybody wins.
Contact Selena Gomez
Website | Facebook | Tumblr | YouTube| Twitter | Google+
Contact Idolator
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Email
Contact PopSugar
Website | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Google+ | Instagram
Sources : Selena Gomez Photo | Listen To Stars Dance | Selena Gomez Article | Stars Dance Review
Purchase : iTunes | Amazon | Walmart (Deluxe Edition) | Best Buy | Target
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