When The Sun Goes Down.
| Selena Gomez & The Scene
When The Sun Goes Down.
When the Sun Goes Down is the third and final studio album by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene, released on June 21, 2011, by Hollywood Records. The band worked with several artists on this album, including writers and producers from their debut, Kiss & Tell (2009), and their second album, A Year Without Rain (2010), such as Rock Mafia's Tim James and Antonina Armato, as well as Katy Perry, Devrim "DK" Karaoglu, and Toby Gad. New contributors to this album included Britney Spears, Priscilla Renea, Emanuel Kiriakou, Dreamlab and Sandy Vee. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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The Guardian
throughout this dance-pop album there's a catch in her throat that suggests an embryonic personality.
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Rolling Stone
Gomez has a hint of raspiness in her singing voice that recalls her beau, Justin Bieber, but she brings nothing in the way of personality to her songs; the swaggering “sex” song “Whiplash” would be comical if it wasn’t so tedious.
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Pop Matters
But another big factor was you got the sense of a teenybopper openly trying to sound like an adult. On When the Sun Goes Down you get a teenybopper posing as a dorm-hardened college junior, and we all know how convincingly that scenario plays. 5/10 stars.
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Pop Crush
The album celebrates being young and having fun in spades.
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MusicOMH
she’s let down by an album of weak songs that try too hard to be family friendly. Back to the drawing board for this cartoon pop star.
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sputnik music
When the Sun Goes Down has a clear mainstream oriented dance-pop identity with thick synths and familiar beats, but is light enough to let Selena breathe.
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Ranting About Music
There’s no ground being broken, but the album has a consistency not seen elsewhere; only three or so songs misfire.
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Mind Equals Blown
This album may not be as consistent as her previous effort, and it may not be something you want other people to know you listen to, but if you’re ever looking for a set of songs to unwind and have fun to then this album has a couple of those for you.
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Entertainment Weekly
on When the Sun Goes Down, though, she sounds fully invested in tart electro-disco ditties like ”Bang Bang Bang,” which strongly recalls La Roux’s ”Bulletproof.” And the top-shelf collaborators don’t hurt
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BG Falcon Media
As a whole, "When the Sun Goes Down" is a light piece of music for your summer playlist. Nothing more, nothing less.
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NZ Herald
A Year Without Rain was a tad more killer than filler, with some decent dance-floor tracks. And with her band The Scene she's continued the formula here, with lead single Who Says possibly her best track to date.
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Kidzworld
what we love even more are all the sparkling pop songs that make up this disc – they’re guaranteed to keep making your world sunny, long after the sun sets!
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San Diego Union Tribune
Selena Gomez sounds generic on 3rd album.
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All Music
as long as she makes records as good and as much fun as When the Sun Goes Down, everything will be fine.
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NWI Times
Selena Gomez sounds generic on 3rd album.
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The Blade
Individually, two or three of these songs are OK in an inoffensive electro-pop kind of way, but taken as a whole it all sounds too much the same and rather too slick and programmed.
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Album Confessions
When the Sun Goes Down is an album that shows Selena Gomez & The Scene getting better and better after every release.
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Mr. Will W: Pop Maven
I found myself unable to resist the feel-good vibes the 19 year-old Disney star was emanating in this twelve-track collection of songs.
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