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"Miley Cyrus&amp;#039;s Bangerz album has been met with mixed reviews from music critics.  The singer&amp;#039;s highly anticipated fourth studio album has been praised for its &amp;quot;daring attitude&amp;quot; but criticised for its lack of direction.   Awarding the album three out of five, Digital Spy said: &amp;quot;Consistency may have been thrown out the window in favour of aiming for an album of hit singles, but truth be told, there&amp;#039;s little that feels quite as all-encompassing as its lead singles &amp;#039;We Can&amp;#039;t Stop&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Wrecking Ball&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;That said, the strike rate remains surprisingly high for an artist who in recent months has relied heavily on foam fingers, sledgehammer licking and Sinead O&amp;#039;Connor to shock and bewilder.&amp;quot;  The Guardian &amp;quot;All of it lays her open to ridicule, not entirely without reason; it just feels wrong to hear Hannah Montana use phraseology like &amp;quot;Where Mike Will at?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m-a do my thing&amp;quot;. Yet, overall, there are more hits than misses.&amp;quot; 3/5 The Observer &amp;quot;But for all the mash-ups, Bangerz feels stitched together in the dark, and the attention-seeking begins to grate. It might be a different story if many of the hip-hop and R&amp;amp;B-inspired cuts were better. &amp;#039;SMS (Bangerz)&amp;#039; is a bad rip-off of Salt-N-Pepa&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Push It&amp;#039;, with a phoned-in Britney guest spot. &amp;#039;Love Money Party&amp;#039;, meanwhile, finds Cyrus rapping a series of non-sequitur buzzwords, gibberish loosely connected by a bit of production, driven by the inescapable purpose of Bangerz: a desire to wind people up for commercial, rather than transgressive, ends.&amp;quot; 2/5 Rolling Stone &amp;quot;Bangerz is the sound of Hannah Montana gone Miami Vice. It&amp;#039;s strange but it&amp;#039;s also traditional: Her Disney-steeped voice never takes a back seat to the wide-ranging production (from the likes of Pharrell, will.i.am and Dr Luke), and Billy Ray&amp;#039;s daughter rocks a country vocal during several tracks. Some skeptics - let&amp;#039;s call them haters - might argue that Cyrus isn&amp;#039;t wholly comfortable in her new dirty/crazy persona. There&amp;#039;s as much terror as power in that realization. That&amp;#039;s what makes it stick.&amp;quot; 3.5/5 Billboard &amp;quot;The album finds Cyrus working with who she wants to work with, singing about what she wants to sing about, as if she&amp;#039;s a kid in an arcade with a pocket of limitless quarters. Sometimes, the 20-year-old&amp;#039;s vision needs to be adjusted, as on the manic French Montana collaboration &amp;#039;FU&amp;#039; and on &amp;#039;Someone Else&amp;#039;, which feels like the album&amp;#039;s hundredth dramatic breakup song and plays for nearly five minutes. But more often than not, Cyrus&amp;#039; daring attitude guides her to invention.&amp;quot;  70/100  Slant Magazine &amp;quot;While Bangerz is certainly admirable for its attempts at propagating a message of empowerment, it also succeeds as a straightforward party album. A few tracks find Cyrus genre-hopping without any clear focus... but they&amp;#039;re outliers on an otherwise consistent, and consistently surprising, album. Bangerz is a personal, idiosyncratic effort that finds equal rewards in twentysomething indulgence and inspiring &amp;#039;be yourself&amp;#039; mantras.&amp;quot;  3.5.5 Spin &amp;quot;The entertainment value of Cyrus&amp;#039; work is more than simply typical pop pleasure: It is the slow-motion horror of watching toxic sleaze replace toxic purity. Though Cyrus has a lovely, albeit generic voice, singing is not her truest gift; instead, it&amp;#039;s the sheer quality of her mirroring, the way she gives us exactly what we want in lethal doses, grinding against our most American horror.&amp;quot; 4/10 Entertainment Weekly &amp;quot;Wherever her passions alighted in the past, she&amp;#039;s obviously infatuated right now with hip-hop and its perpetual drive for new and exotic sounds. Bangerz may be about breaking up and wilding out, but it also agitates for the future. When she sings, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Been wondering where you been all my life&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in &amp;#039;Adore You&amp;#039;, she might as well be addressing her own reinvented self.&amp;quot; A- Listen to Bangerz below:  What do you make of Bangerz? Leave your comments in the box below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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