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From Beyonce who her last album was release three years ago to Selena who have release three albums in the last two years. B concentrate on quality rather than quantity while Selena's music is not at Beyonce's quality but quite good and release in massive quantity.
The album consists of dance-pop radio ready songs, that unfortunately won't be release to mainstream. This is because the increasing cost to release a mainstream single to radio, estimated at 1 million dollars per song. Seems silly but this left the small Disney-owned, Hollywood Records not able to release it but still made a video for it to promote the album rather than the single. Enough about this, the song itself is one of my favorites from the album. You will feel a mixture of fantasy and magic when you hear it and was actually portrayed very well in the video.
We then have tracks like Bang Bang Bang, My Dilemma, Outlaw and Middle of Nowhere. All about boys. First about she showing off her new boyfriend. the second one about she cannot stop loving this boy, the third one about she fallen in love with a boy that doesn't believe in love and the last one is about a guy leaving her after promising that he won't. All four tracks have the same sound, very upbeat dance techno track.
Then we have the self empowering songs, Who Says and Hit The Lights. The first one, you probably have heard it over and over on the radio, which did quite well commercially more than even I thought it would be. It's about believing yourself, you are good, you are beautiful. Very typical. Next is Hit The Lights about again believing yourself to achieve what you want.
Next we have the songs that is written by a few special peoples, When The Sun Goes Down, Whiplash, We Own The Night, That's More Like It. The first was co-written by the band bass player Joey Clement, the second one co-written by Britney Spears showing a very sexy side of Selena, the third one, one of my favorites, co-written by Pixie Lott about enjoying your life in the moment and lastly the fun "Who Run The World (Girls)" kinda track, co-written by Katy Perry.
That's all for the album. Overall it's a very solid album the only problem I have is that the tracks is not as cohesive as A Year Without Rain which had more focus.
Based on Critics - 40/50
Based on Public - 19/50
Based on Hype - 45/50
Based on Pop Flares - 40/50
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One more thing I would to talk is about how her album sales shows the condition of the music industries the past two years. Her first album, Kiss and Tell debuted at no. 9 with sales of 66,000. Her second album, A Year Without Rain debuted at no. 4 with the same number of sales. This shows the industry dip in 2010 where an album that sold 66,000 copies in the year debuted at no. 4 where a year before with the same number it debuted at no. 9. And now we see an improvement in the industry where the album sold 78,000 and debuted at no. 4. Still the same no. placement but different copies sold. I hope this will continue in the music industry. I encourage people to buy original, please!!!
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