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Everything To Me by Nicola Roberts (2015) Tracklist

Lemme get this one out of the way... The Life of a Showgirl - Taylor Swift   This album pretty much feels like she wrote 12 songs that were "good enough" to be released and called it a day, the visuals are sooo good (the bedroom ones from the Honey / Ruin the Friendship visuals could've been a Guilty as Sin? MV) but the music just isn't it after 7 or so months I can comfortably say this is hands down her worst era and bar maybe 1 song (Ruin the Friendship) I have had no desire to return to it.   I have more I want to say but it would just be beating a dead horse with a stick atp so nvm.

SUCKER by Charli XCX (2014) Tracklist Her weakest album. Boom Clap fits the album but also it holds it back from it's true form, and Break the Rules?  I tried to make this as cohesive as I could, almost cutting off Caught In The Middle. Singles 1. Doing It 2. Famous 3. SuperLove 4. Die Tonight

Okay, lets start this off with a few Kim Petras - Feed The Beast (2023) Unfortunately there's a good handful of bops on here, but there's a lack of creativity and sense of direction behind this body of work, a fault that is not Kim's of course, but this problem later bleeds into its technical late parent album Problematiqué, originally scheduled for 2022. That's kinda all there is to it, other than a few handful of good songs, it's her worst album in my opinion because there's a lack of creativity and direction, and you can tell the label didn't know what to do with her either, rough as hell for a debut album. Though I like to think the album name is a inside joke towards how it was being on her label, given how Detour was rather open and metaphorical about industry hardships amongst other topics. Jane Remover - Indie rock (2025) Technically a mixtape (which counts, it's still a full length body of work), Indie rock is Jane's deeper delve into the roots of her critically adored Revenegseekerz album. However, the mixtape, which it's title is a nod to the tank top worn in the "Dancing with your eyes closed" video, butchers the quality of which made Revenegseekerz such a great album in the first place. Though it's technically produced to not "outdo" the original album, she only confirms that this record is not a satire project based on the new wave of fans she earned from Revengeseekerz by teasing a sequel.  Indie rock is terrible because you cannot hear a single thing she's saying almost all the time, and the beats are the saving grace at most times. Very few select tracks where she's not trying to emulate the wave of talentless white mumble rappers who think the underground is unique, it's almost a disgrace to the art of rap in itself.  Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2 Whilst I did enjoy this album when it had first dropped, it's aged very poorly. This album does not stack up to the legacy album that is it's predecessor nor does it match the quality that was given by The Pinkprint and Queen, which are by far her greatest works to date. Pink Friday really raised the bar for female rap and was a threat to the industry on release, as well as the unique channelling of rap AND pop music in such a camp manner that would be more explorative for Roman Reloaded. So a sequel album would have probably had alot more to say in this stage of her career, right?  Pink Friday 2, clocking in at a bloated 22 songs, where less than half the album has some form of decency. The album feels more like a playlist than it does an album, which Nicki "takes pride in" making, but to me this album just feels like a throwaway record to get fans off her ass about releasing an album. It's messy and nearly disgraces the original Pink Friday. The album had potential to perhaps be a reflective album that doesn't aim to outdo her previous bodies of work, but to still do what she's best at. Some songs could have even nodded to points of her career, thus Pink Friday 2 would have made alot of sense if it were to be an album that was dissect of her impact up until that point, but it doesn't, and then the name feels like a cheap gimmick. And also the fact 13/22 songs have samples and only few of them work... yikes. And not to mention the album's constant revising, delays and the cd and vinyl tracklisting differing from streaming, because it only further cements how much lack of care was put into this record. And whilst we're on the topic, can artists please just release ONE version of an album, instead of doing multiple tracklistings for the cds, vinyls and streaming? It's irritating as fuck. The tracklist of an album is important to curating the listening experience. Now, if I were to fix this album, and perhaps make it sound more listenable, here's how I would do it:  

What is your least favourite album of a select artist's discography and why? Whether it's what you consider the "worst", or perhaps the weakest album of [artist]'s discography, why is it your dislike the album, and how would you improve it?  (I hope this question doesn't cross into the fix the era thread, though it would be cool to have more postings in there to how you would fix your records of choice) Note: This thread is entirely opinion based. Please do not engage in negative wars or fights or whatever, at the end of the day our tastes greatly differ. Also there is a big difference between "worst" and "weakest", with worse being a harsh read for the given quality, whereas weakness shows potential but the overall presentation could have been better. P.S. These albums I (mostly) don't consider the worst of an artist's discography, I really like C,XOXO, I've never heard Takin It Back and I also like Solar Power and Witness too.  Discuss.