Archive for year: 2013

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Selena Gomez, who made her name as part of Disney’s fold of singing, smiling teens, has scored her first No. 1 album with “Stars Dance” (Hollywood)…

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“Stars Dance” is exactly the kind of album one makes in 2013 if you want to keep the pop sugar of the Disney tween cabal but mix in some broken glass and a club bathroom nosebleed. Its productions are rooted in today’s pop-EDM default mode, but as that stuff goes, “Slow Down” is pretty capable, and the bhangra-appropriating “Come & Get It” is guilelessly silly enough to work…

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At this point, Demi Lovato’s story of success is well-known and does not need to be further dissected. In 2012, the 20-year-old scored her biggest hit to date with the sumptuously simple “Give Your Heart a Break,” headlined a well-received summer tour to support her 2011 album “Unbroken” and increased her national profile by sitting on “The X Factor” judges panel; Lovato was a musical star to those who didn’t know the details of her prior personal struggles, and many of those who did viewed the singer as a source of inspiration. As anticipation mounted for her next full-length, pop fans didn’t wonder if the album was going to be a success, but whether or not it would bring the singer to the upper echelon of the genre, to a place reserved for vocalists with a deep catalogue of hits and a magnetism that makes them empirically unavoidable…

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