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Calvin Harris "Motion" Album Review

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Channel: Rock N' Roll True Stories · 2014 · Music

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My review of Calvin Harris new album Motion]

Overall: 2.5/5

Favourite Tracks: Summer, Open Wide, Outside

Least Favourite: Rest of the album

1."Faith" 
2."Under Control" (with Alesso featuring Hurts) 

3."Blame" (featuring John Newman) 

4. "Love Now" (featuring All About She) 
5. "Slow Acid"   
6. "Outside" (featuring Ellie Goulding) 
7. "It Was You" (with Firebeatz)
8. "Summer"   
9. "Overdrive" (with Ummet Ozcan) 
10. "Ecstasy" (featuring Hurts)
11. "Pray to God" (featuring Haim) 
12. "Open Wide" (featuring Big Sean) 
13. "Together" (featuring Gwen Stefani) 
14. "Burnin'" (with R3hab) 
15. "Dollar Signs" (featuring Tinashe)

Hey everybody it's Friday, October 31, 2014 happy Halloween everybody I just want to  do a quick review of Calvin Harris new album, which actually came out today called Motion. Now Motion is
his follow-up to his last smash hit album that was released 18 months ago and that album that was released 18 months ago dethroned Michael Jackson from the number 1 spot on the Billboard charts. 

So he's got a lot of expectations to live up to. And he goes with the if it ain't broken don't fix it kind of approach.  so this album
is full of radio friendly bass driven dance songs and he's got tons of
guest appearances from people like Gwen Stefani, Big Sean, HAIM, Ellie Goulding as well as a bunch of other ones 

But I feel like the problem with this album is that almost all the songs sound identical so it's
really difficult some circumstances that it's really hard to tell where one song ends and where another begins. It almost feels like Calvin Harris goes to a recording studio and he has  this toolbox full of tools and maybe he's got ten tools and he'll just copy and paste like maybe put the order  different but in the end at the end of the day they all sound the same they have a trademark sound but it's really not an innovative. A lot of the songs are boring. There are a few good song on this album. I think most importantly the collaboration with Big Sean  is probably one of my favorite songs off the album same goes with your Ellie Gouing song as well as the song that was released as the first single which was Summer

But you know for the most part this album was just feels like it's totally a unnecessary and totally  could be totally passed by the people listening to it. Whenever Iwatch a TV show or when I was listening to this album, anytime I was listening to it I jresolution to this album anytime I was listening to it I just imagined TV shows and movies filming a scene inside of a nightclub for whatever reason and they would always be playing music from the album because it just sounds like cheesy dance music that you hear the background TV shows and movies and that's all the album is. You know there are some good songs, but for the most part this album should just be passed. I give this album 2.5/5. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to subscribe below as I have am going to have tons of more reviews coming up. Take care and Happy Halloween!

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