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Nothing but the Beat est le cinquième album studio du DJ et producteur de musique français David Guetta. Il sortit le 26 août 2011 sous le label Virgin Records (EMI). C'est incontestablement l'album que David Guetta vendit le plus avec environ 3,3 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Cet album bénéficia de nombreuses versions différentes dont récemment une version Ultimate rassemblant 29 titres.
4 éditions de l'album furent commercialisées dans le monde suivant les pays : L'édition deluxe, L'édition standard, L'édition 2. et L'édition Ultimate.
On peut noter qu'un titre bonus est présent sur l'édition de iTunes. Fin 2011, une avant-première du film Nothing But The Beat fut projetée. Ce film retrace la carrière de David Guetta avec des témoignages entre autres de Chris Willis, Taio Cruz, Kelly Rowland, Akon, Snoop Dogg, Laidback Luke, Cathy Guetta et d'autres.
C'est le 7 août 2012 que David Guetta dévoila une nouvelle collaboration avec la chanteuse Sia intitulée She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) ainsi que la sortie de la réédition de son album Nothing But The Beat intitulé Nothing But The Beat 2.0 avec des nouvelles collaborations avec des artistes tels que Ne-Yo, Tegan & Sara, Akon, Taped Rai et Nervo ainsi que les 2 premières chansons produites sous le nouveau label de David Guetta (Jack Back Records) : Wild Ones 2 et Metropolis.
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Five years ago, if someone had told you that American hip hop and RnB would be riddled with thumping mid-90s Eurocheese in the not-too-distant future, it’s fairly likely you’d have assumed them a tad misguided. Yet here we are, with dance and urban charts largely interchangeable, and the man responsible – in some considerable part, at least – is David Guetta, who continues his evolution from DJ to headline artist via his fifth album, Nothing but the Beat.
But the peculiar fusion of genres is, somehow, no longer that peculiar. With Nothing but the Beat’s arrival already heralded by the triumphant meeting of Flo Rida’s booming rhymes and the zesty, madcap stutter of Nicki Minaj on Where Them Girls At, Guetta’s production wizardry has amassed some gravitas.
The tracklist reads like a Now! album, from the usual suspects (Akon, Taio Cruz, Chris Brown) to marginally less obvious collaborations (Jessie J, Jennifer Hudson). The best results come when Guetta mercilessly rips artists from their comfort zone – take the aforementioned Minaj in songbird mode on Turn Me On, or Sia’s ghostly mandolin-esque vocals on Titanium more than holding their own on atop Guetta’s bed of frantic zips and twiddles.
And yet Nothing Really Matters, which employs a simpler, more unobtrusive beat alongside a pleasing string loop, contains every trite lyrical cliché imaginable courtesy of will.i.am. "On the floor"? Check. "In the club"? Check. "Party people"? Check. Bragging about pulling supermodels? Check. Asking the DJ to turn it up? Check. It’s by far the worst offender here, but hints at the overall lack of innovation Nothing but the Beat is guilty of.
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. Whether you could go so far as to call Guetta an auteur might be pushing it, but it’s a cohesive effort, if not quite a work of art. And in terms of genre, it’s neither dance nor hip hop; it’s David Guetta. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing comes down to a matter of taste.
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