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Imagine the lashings FN would get for its last two tracks if it were released today. In retrospect, she was extremely lucky to get a 88 score back then. I think RO would've fared much better with critics if it were released back then.

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The Man Who
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Is it too early to refer to this album as Radical Magnum Opus?

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Just now, The Man Who said:

Is it too early to refer to this album as Radical Magnum Opus?

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Yes - that'd be a ridiculous title for it. Come on now :deadbanana2:

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The Man Who
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Just now, ahauntingnearu said:

Yes - that'd be a ridiculous title for it. Come on now :deadbanana2:

It feels fitting because of Grammy's For You being on there.

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okay yeah first impression…

 

some of it is kinda eh, but I could see a lot of it growing on me! this kind of feels like the Talk That Talk to Future Nostalgia's Loud: full of bops but maybe not as much of a pop bible as a collection of good pop with occasional awesomeness. the 3 singles, Whatcha Doing, and French Exit are THE ones :jonny5: Anything for Love would be top tier too if it were more fleshed out like wtf were they thinking :deadbanana4:

 

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The outro to Falling Forever :WAP:

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3 minutes ago, Virgos Groove said:

First the Midspresso stanning and now this... what hapenned to the pop connaisseur we used to know?

 

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I'm just kidding, I'm looping the album

 

But for every comment saying it's better than FN this album will get a lashing

 

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I'm so mad at Anything For Love. This would be a highlight if it wasn't so short. 💀

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3 minutes ago, The Man Who said:

It feels fitting because of Grammy's For You being on there.

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The Man Who
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Future Nostalgia is an amazing album, but it doesn't have any songs as strong as Happy For You or Falling Forever I fear. 

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Just now, _Fey said:

I'm so mad at Anything For Love. This would be a highlight if it wasn't so short. 💀

The room service at the hotel came in with the champagne, she didn't have time to record the rest

 

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Its unbelievable how many of you guys are gullible by press and success.. this is such a GOOD album overall. Honestly Training Season and Illusion were SUCH bad choices, the album is MUCH better than these two songs let on. Its so quirky, vibey, summery. Its an amazing effort and yall will NOT talk trash about it

 

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Houdini + Training Season + Falling Forever + Happy for You are the only good to great songs. The rest is either Ok or plain mediocre.

Sorry but this is not the album that should have followed FN. A mindblowing miss knowing how much of a music nerd she is

The Man Who
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HOW LOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNG
Can we stay like this together?
Can we keep falling forever?

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Recency bias finally wearing off I see

FN >>>

 

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37 minutes ago, TayDuaStan said:

These Walls 

 

ok ok control it 

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Imagine touring this material :rip: 

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those of yall saying that this is better than FN... electric chair

 

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Happy For You. Yup. Yup. This, Houdini, and Falling Forever are definitely my top 3 from the album.

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Album desperately need another Houdini, TS and Illusion, some more hard sounding.

 

French Exit and AFL are complete miss and have no place to be on 11 track album

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This is more or less what I expected from Dua. There is nothing new here, and the structure and topics all mirror Future Nostalgia. And the label interferance is obvious. That being said, it's a very solid pop record for the summer. She's dependable, and I can respect that.

 

Gonna pick up my copy today.

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The Man Who
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2 minutes ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

Its unbelievable how many of you guys are gullible by press and success.. this is such a GOOD album overall. Honestly Training Season and Illusion were SUCH bad choices, the album is MUCH better than these two songs let on. Its so quirky, vibey, summery. Its an amazing effort and yall will NOT talk trash about it

 

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I don't know if it's because my taste skews more towards rock / alternative but I rarely agree with people's opinions on this forum.

This album is so ******* good and I don't get why there's so many debbie downers glued to this thread. :rip:

Now let me replay Falling Forever again! 

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The Man Who
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1 minute ago, halcyonday said:

those of yall saying that this is better than FN... electric chair

 

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Are you being paid to post in this thread or something? Why are you lingering around just to be negative? :biblio:

We get it, you didn't like the album. 

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2 minutes ago, The Man Who said:

I don't know if it's because my taste skews more towards rock / alternative but I rarely agree with people's opinions on this forum.

This album is so ******* good and I don't get why there's so many debbie downers glued to this thread. :rip:

Now let me replay Falling Forever again! 

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This forum is a perfect display of momentum. Dua lost all of her momentum due to her very bad choices of releasing TS and Illusion post Houdini. There are much more interesting and more fitting songs on the album that are way more distinct than TS and Illusion, which both sound like 2.0 versions of existing songs.

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This album needed its own Hallucinate but overall its solid 8/10

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