VIVI'S WORKS

BRITNEY SPEARS: BRITNEY JEAN (January 19, 2023) SCORE: 57/100 I didn't hate this album honestly, it had some great songs come out of it. I think the issue with it to me is the fact it sounds very generic and somewhat lazy, the production sounded like everything else that was being made in this time period. Tik Tik Boom and Work Bitch were both really good songs in my personal opinion, those were the high points of the album. Not Britney's best work by any means, but it's not horrible either.

BRITNEY SPEARS: BRITNEY JEAN (DELUXE) (January 19, 2023) SCORE: 67/100 I liked the bonus tracks, the rest hasn't changed. But I think Brightest Morning Star is one of my favorites, it's beautiful lyrically and vocally.

JANET JACKSON: DAMITA JO (January 19, 2023 & February 4, 2023) ORIGINAL SCORE (January 19, 2023): 72/100 A pretty good album, I personally really liked this album, I thought a lot of the songs were very well done and overall I just really enjoyed it. There isn't a ton I can say about it, but I can say I liked it and I would recommend it, the R&B sound of the album was really well done and I think all of the production was perfectly matched to Janet's voice EDIT (February 4, 2023):  SCORE: 91/100 Edit: 72-91, MAN was I bad at reviews at this time, good god. I re listened to this album recently and now that I'm capable of writing reviews here's a bit more: Damita Jo is a lovely album, the lyrics are (mostly) sweet and loving and the production is infectiously amazing. For such a long album everything flows so well and it's really consistent and amazing, most of everything was good but there was a couple weak points here and there, still a really solid and well...

PRINCE: FOR YOU (January 19, 2023) SCORE: 87/100 Early Prince, before his style was found. I find this album to actually be quite enjoyable, I love the funk/disco sound it has to it and I also like hearing the vocal style that Prince used when he was young. I think this is an essential album for Prince fans, to hear how he sounded before he fully shaped out his style.

My plans for this new, more relaxed blog forum are for me to archive hopefully all of my AOTY reviews to have them backed up and available on a wider scale. This will help me to review my growth and make new comments about old reviews, and it will allow for a smoother organization of my oldest projects (by year tag, genre tag, archive tag). This will make it easiest for me to organize my writing and have a portfolio of sorts readily available at all times. I still absolutely adore AOTY and it will continue to be my main platform, but this allows for me to have another outlet for my writing, which can go outside of just music and into other forms of media and personal posts. This new outlet will allow for me to write more drabble-esque posts (posts that are short in length, although they are only similar to drabble[s] in that sense, since my posts are not fiction), and to branch out more into other forms of writing and media - outside of just music and review-based writing.  It'll t...

PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION: AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY (January 19, 2023) SCORE: 94/100 What an interesting switch up in styles from Purple Rain, but still a lovely album. Prince seemed to be able to effortlessly change his musical style again and again and make it sound amazing in the process every time. I find this album to be somewhat underrated, since I don't really seem to hear about it when people talk about Prince much. I think the experimental style of this album is stunning and it is yet another work of art from Prince, definitely would recommend to any Prince fans that have not already heard it before