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"Beauty Marks" is the seventh full length studio album by American singer Ciara, released on May 10, 2019, through Beauty Entertainment.
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Though ‘Beauty Marks’ is rarely innovative, Ciara shows a respectable amount of range throughout the record. ‘Thinkin Bout You’ is shimmering disco ear candy, ‘Girl Gang’ unites her with Kelly Rowland for a righteous girl power bop, and the electro-R&B of ‘Greatest Love’ glides and glistens stylishly. ‘Freak Me’ starts off sounding like Whitney Houston’s ‘It’s Not Right But It’s Okay’ – a peerless production, but one that’s 20 years old – before becoming much less derivative thanks to an appearance from Nigerian artist Tekno and some sleek Afrobeat inflections. On that last track, Ciara is enough of a pro to carry off even this clunky-sounding come-on: “Turn me on like remote controller / Up and down like a roller coaster.” Um, sure.
By the time the album concludes with the saccharine piano ballad ‘Beauty Marks’, it’s hard not to feel that Ciara has earned the right to emote a little self-indulgently. This may not be a groundbreaking record, but it’s definitely one that delivers bops befitting of a woman who keeps on performing even when she’s served with court papers on stage.
Reviewed by Nick Levine for nme.com.
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