Songs start using the same worn out stereotyped Urban sounds, from the piano-heavy R&B of Everlasting Love to the heavy sampling of the song’s namesake in Like Mariah. Luke-produced dance-pop number This Is How We Roll that the album hits its slump.
The following four tracks all flow between urban and synth-pop styles, with the pre-released single Sledgehammer standing out the most. Top Down has a great retro R&B flair with sampled brass instruments and sassy vocal performance, and indicates the album’s overall style. Add in a collaboration track with current pop powerhouse Meghan Trainor and you’ve got all of the ingredients for a popular album.įor the first few tracks it even manages to sound fresh and instil some hope that it might be a great album. While the girls don’t have the vocal range of their musical influences, the songs are built to showcase the singing voice of each member to the best of its abilities, solo and while harmonising. Reflection is a collection of R&B and Urban songs, in a similar vein to Mariah Carey (whose song Always Be My Baby was heavily sampled in the referential album track Like Mariah) or Ariana Grande. It’s thanks to The X Factor that girl groups like Fifth Harmony have a shot again, and three years after coming third in the 2012 American season, they’ve finally released their debut album Reflection.
Solo teen pop stars and boy bands have filled the niche that was once home to the likes of the Spice Girls, and barring a few successful efforts in the late 2000s and early 2010s, girl groups were only really appearing in Japan and Korea. Girl groups are slowly becoming a less significant force in the music world.
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