With their সেকেন্ড album about to hit the shelves at the end of the month, Billboard has checked out Selena Gomez & The Scene‘s album A বছর Without Rain. Check out what they had to say about her new music!
“A বছর Without Rain” finds Selena Gomez (and evidently her band, the Scene) tackling a succession of standard-issue tween-pop topics: how awesome প্রণয় is (“Off the Chain”), how sucky bad days are (“Intuition”) and how powerless we mere mortals are in the face of the devil’s সঙ্গীত (“Rock God”). Fortunately, the 10-track set—a huge improvement over the ডিজনি Channel star’s forgettable 2009 debut—delivers these ho-hum messages in above-average packaging. Opener “Round & Round,” co-produced দ্বারা “Let It Rock” broheim Kevin Rudolf, rides a fist-pumping electro groove, while “Summer’s Not Hot” gets a gloriously trashy Eurodance chorus from RedOne, who co-wrote the song. Elsewhere, Gomez goes appealingly emo-disco on the Toby Gad-produced শিরোনাম track. Despite the album’s title, dark clouds do appear in the form of “Spotlight,” a hookless, fake-dancehall jam, and the snoozy “Ghost of You.” But mostly, “A বছর Without Rain” is as sunny as advertised.
“A বছর Without Rain” finds Selena Gomez (and evidently her band, the Scene) tackling a succession of standard-issue tween-pop topics: how awesome প্রণয় is (“Off the Chain”), how sucky bad days are (“Intuition”) and how powerless we mere mortals are in the face of the devil’s সঙ্গীত (“Rock God”). Fortunately, the 10-track set—a huge improvement over the ডিজনি Channel star’s forgettable 2009 debut—delivers these ho-hum messages in above-average packaging. Opener “Round & Round,” co-produced দ্বারা “Let It Rock” broheim Kevin Rudolf, rides a fist-pumping electro groove, while “Summer’s Not Hot” gets a gloriously trashy Eurodance chorus from RedOne, who co-wrote the song. Elsewhere, Gomez goes appealingly emo-disco on the Toby Gad-produced শিরোনাম track. Despite the album’s title, dark clouds do appear in the form of “Spotlight,” a hookless, fake-dancehall jam, and the snoozy “Ghost of You.” But mostly, “A বছর Without Rain” is as sunny as advertised.