Review Summary: Uninteresting, unimaginative, and pandering to the radio market. It sure is The Chainsmokers.
Let me get this out of the way real quick, this album is NOT worth your time by any measure. The Chainsmokers are not an act worth keeping up, and this album only proves that even further. If you listened to last years dreadful "Collage" EP, you're just getting more of the same EDM-Pop garbage that littered the charts last year and will litter the chart again this year. Every track on here is just the same as their other works but with a new vocalist and lyrics, except for half of this album you're stuck with Andrew Taggart's painfully average vocals overlaying the same vanilla beats. Hell they even stole the drop from one of their previous releases, "Roses", on the song "Something Just Like This" which happens to feature Chris Martin of Coldplay.
And that's not even the worst of it, some of these songs could've had potential. The fast-paced beat on "Break Up Every Night" could've made for a somewhat decent track, except then the vocals come in and it's back to base one. The drop from the boring, slow, "relatable" song, "Honest" could've made for a good banger, but the rest of the song drags it down. Jhene Aiko, who features on "Wake Up Alone" has a nice voice, and the song itself isn't anything too bad, still not good though, honestly one of the most lyrically intriguing songs in this garbage fire. Despite being about the same topic nearly every other song on this album is about, breakups. Because that's something everyone's been through and can relate to. Which will help them top the charts even more, sadly.
I can't go on about this anymore, it's awful. Not worth your time in any capacity. For Christ's sake the last track has a feature from Flordia Georgia Line, that alone should tell you the quality of this album.
I'm sure this'll get destroyed on this site, but it's better than I anticipated. It's listenable for the most part. I really hate some of the effects, and they have a really simplistic grasp of how to make a song, but it isn't any kind of atrocity. In regards to the last track, I don't know who Florida Georgia Line is, but I'd say it's a pretty solid radio pop track, honestly.
I've never enjoyed a single Chainsmokers track and I highly doubt I'm about to start now.
Review was alright minus a couple of flow issues and garbled sentences - I know not to touch the album with a barge pole if nowt else :^)
This review was really, really bad. You seem really, really sour, overtly negative and very non-descriptive as to why this album isn't good. The last paragraph especially. Yeah, I know most people on this site (or in general) hate Florida Georgia Line, but them being here doesn't exactly mean that they can't be on a good song. You have to explain yourself better, because even when you tried to find positives, I have no idea what you're talking about, because you don't describe the music in itself. What does it sound like? What ARE the lyrics about? Why do the songs fail so much?
That being said, the album is the epitome of "Meh", doesn't really warrant a rating tbh.
Just watched the tutorial; I wonder how cynical is this. They just straightforwardly explained that they made the song in 3 seconds from scrach, barely produced it and people bought it anyway.
