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Apr 21, 2014This is an instantly engaging showcase of the 23-year-old Aussie’s talents--poppy without diluting her fierce-flowing charisma.
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Apr 17, 2014Twerk-inducing and loud; 'Goddess' is the game-changer for Iggy Azalea and the glistening cherry on top of the immaculately produced, lyrically creative gem that is The New Classic.
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Apr 17, 2014There’s no rap entitlement on display, and even brand-dropping doesn’t feel disingenuous or superficial, somehow--and, furthermore, she’s a grounded everyman rap icon. It’s endearing to no end.
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May 16, 2014The production is an expertly judged combination of radio-friendly pop and club-influenced, sparse trap beats. Iggy’s the real deal.
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Entertainment WeeklyApr 25, 2014Iggy's got a handful of top shelf singles, but too much of The New Classic is old news. [2 May 2014, p.63]
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May 14, 2014The New Classic will never be a classic, but it isn’t anywhere as bad as anyone will expect it to be.
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Apr 29, 2014If there's one problem with this pop/rap hybrid it is the skittish way she sometimes departs from the beat, losing her flow in EDM choruses or radio friendly R&B pop hooks. Iggy is strongest when she welds her words to a minimal yet delectable bass boom, spelling out her name with mischievous exaggeration.
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Apr 24, 2014Despite Azalea’s nimble delivery sometimes lapsing into the mechanical, there are moments on The New Classic when she sounds ready for prime time.
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Apr 22, 2014Although a few late quarter misfirings render the album’s title misleading, there is too much good here to say with a straight face that Iggy will amount to nothing more than a flash in the pan.
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Apr 22, 2014Taken in as an album and Azalea's constant "bow down" attitude makes this a cuckoldish experience, so think "some will pay for what others pay to avoid" and approach accordingly.
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Apr 21, 2014Student’s complete commitment to character and form compensate slightly for the unrelenting weirdness of this project.
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Apr 21, 2014Azalea's flow is both playful and authoritative, and above-par surprises unfurl on the productions.
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Apr 18, 2014Though neither particularly new nor classic, Iggy Azalea’s debut album proper (following two self-released mixtapes) reveals enough smarts and skills to sustain the Aussie rapper’s momentum.
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Apr 17, 2014Azalea's rags-to-riches story shines on Work, but elsewhere her "bow down to a goddess" schtick grows tiring.
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Apr 17, 2014It's a shame The New Classic can sound so heavily manufactured, if anything because interesting things happen from time to time.
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May 6, 2014There's simply not enough substance and individuality for me to call this a good rap album. But at the intersection of rap and pop it doesn't embarrass either side.
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Apr 22, 2014The New Classic mistakenly tries to frame Azalea as hip-hop's newest can't-miss egomaniac, focusing on the riches instead of the far more interesting rags.
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Apr 21, 2014Iggy Azalea’s The New Classic aims high, but ultimately falls flat.
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Apr 17, 2014She dresses [her songs] up in the kind of shamelessly poppy hooks that make Top 40 programmers giggle in delight and "real hip-hop" heads shake theirs sadly. If this is the future, it's one strange place.
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May 8, 2014There's nothing to really chew on here, nothing to keep you coming back.
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Oct 30, 2014Iggy Azalea's a fun girl booty-shaking a few morsels of neon, hashtag-spangled pop.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014While Azalea drops the occasional zinger, The New Classic is the sound of an ersatz rebel playing to script, having a shot at the rap career Paris Hilton never quite got round to. [Jun 2014, p.123]
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Apr 21, 2014There’s nothing game-changing about The New Classic, just recycled hustlin’ tropes and an ugly, nasal double-time flow overcompensating for mediocre wordplay.
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Apr 17, 2014The New Classic establishes the Australian artist as a competent rapper with a decent ear for hooks, but that's about it.
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Jun 6, 2014The New Classic, though stacked from top to bottom with an impressive collection of production efforts, is nothing more than derivative delivery soaked in stylistic heresy.
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May 12, 2014The directionless album may have a number of songs that will make radio programmers drool, but the staying power resembles anything but a classic.
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Positive: 380 out of 635
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Mixed: 79 out of 635
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Negative: 176 out of 635
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