While millions of people rejoiced at the arrival of ROSÉ’s solo album rOh, released on December 6, music criticism blog Pitchfork received the project with moderate enthusiasm.
Writer Alex Ramos gave the album a modest score of 5.5 while their review was unremarkable, with accusations that it “relies on outdated references and the rough outlines of heartbreak.”
The project, they said, failed to deliver on the greatness of a heartbreaking masterpiece and especially on its promises of intimacy, in giving fans a deeper insight into his true self. her, outside of BlackPink’s career – a promise she herself made for a long time. Instagram post.
“Rosie – is the name I allow my friends and family to call me,” she wrote in October when announcing the project.
“With this album, I hope you all will feel much closer to me.”
While rose sees the singer try her hand at a variety of genres, from synth-pop to R&B (which critics say represents the style of a not-so-distant era, around the time of Taylor Swift 1989, by Halsey wastelandor by Sam Smith In The Lonely HourRamos felt the album failed to capture the nostalgia of the era and worse, offered nothing new.
“Even with the support of a major record label, an all-star committee of musicians and producers, and Rosé’s 8 years of experience in Black Pink, rose nothing revealing or interesting,” Ramos wrote.
“Its content pales by the standards of great breakup albums, with lines like, ‘In our desert, all our tears turn to dust/Now roses are not grows here.'”
The writer said that, when starting to write an extremely heartbreaking album, Rosé was committed to bringing listeners deep, uncomfortable and emotional emotions. reality, everything they felt, she did not.
Instead, Ramos asserted that the project left Blackpink fans feeling “cold”, delivering only “old-fashioned pop references and a general lingering sense of heartbreak”.
— Originally published on K-popStarz
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