Nothing but the Beat
| David Guetta
Nothing but the Beat
Nothing but the Beat is the fifth studio album by French DJ and record producer David Guetta, released on 26 August 2011. Released as a double album, the first disc features collaborations with artists from the R&B, hip hop and pop worlds. In comparison, the second disc features purely instrumental tracks. The album is also Guetta's first album not to feature long-time collaborator Chris Willis on vocals. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Spin
— turning such egos as will.i.am, Usher, and Nicki Minaj into unrecognizable studio playthings.
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Entertainment Weekly
Those are rare flashes of heart, though, on an album that ultimately feels colder than its sweat factor suggests.
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packs in Top 40 contenders, but features an instrumental disc to appease older listeners who knew Guetta first and foremost as a club DJ.
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Rolling Stone
David Guetta has become a go-to guy for pop stars looking to navigate the increasingly techno-fied Top 40.
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All Music
it shouldn’t be surprising that this star-studded collection of big-room tunes plays like a hits collection.
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AV Music
Appropriately, any of the 12 songs on the first disc of Guetta’s two-disc Nothing But The Beat could be a radio single, each a spit-shined earworm featuring a cast of familiar Hot 100 faces
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Pop Matters
Nothing But the Beat, despite its occasional glimmer of creativity, is in many ways a showcase of everything that is bad about pop music in 2011: derivative, novelty, shallow, rushed and thoroughly uninteresting.
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Sputnik Music
I suppose we can blame the explosion in house music that occurred at the turn of the century for allowing David Guetta to stick his foot in the door.
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Slant Magazine
the simple and disheartening truth of the matter is that Guetta simply supplies the soundtrack for a demographic that likes the sonic equivalent of being struck in the face with a rake handle over and over and over again.
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The Guardian
Guetta's trademark union of stadium trance and American R&B is represented in a glittering array of bling-encrusted collaborations but they struggle to impose any distinctive personality on the overall mood of relentless rictus-grin-inducing euphoria.
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BBC
A quick blast would suggest that each track’s identity is dependent on its featured vocalist, and while it’s true to an extent, there is some fluidity across Nothing but the Beat that solidifies it as an album.
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NZ Herald
Does the world really need a double album from the king of banging - some might say brainless - dance floor pop fodder?
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Pop Crush
With electropop and dance music seemingly as big in the pop music landscape as they've ever been, Guetta seems poised to have a massive hit record.
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We Got This Covered
But as always happens with something new and popular, it got copied and pasted to the point where almost every new single sounded at least somewhat similar to this mega-hit.
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KSSU News
But overall the album is made of win. There are quite a lot of tracks on there I liked which makes it worth the money.
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AU
In fact, the entire album has a lot of colour in dark and light throughout it – and yes it’s essentially a dance album – but it’s written like a rock album.
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Contact Music
David Guetta is on top of the world and it seems there is nothing that the Frenchman can't do.
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Southwest Shadow
I figured Guetta’s catchy and upbeat single, “Where Them Girls At?” would set the standard for the album, but in reality, the rest of his songs are disappointing.
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