Urban stageblazer Ciara is looking to make her mark on the Billboard 200 with her newest album, ‘Beauty Marks.’
Preceded by its party-starting gems ‘Dose’ and ‘Level Up,’ as well as mid-tempo cuts ‘Greatest Love,’ ‘Freak Me,’ and ‘Thinkin ‘Bout You,’ the 33-year-old’s been sliding her dancing shoes across the promo trail for months ahead of the project’s official unveiling.
Now, we’ll see if the hard work paid off.
Coming as the inaugural release from her own imprint, Beauty Marks Entertainment, look inside for your first listen to Cici’s new album (featuring appearances from Macklemore, Tekno and Kelly Rowland).
Your thoughts?
I like the title track the most.
Amazing album!
Favorite track: Trust myself
Best album since Promise, one of the best of your career ?❤️
I agree.
‘Love myself’ and ‘trust myself’ are standouts on this album for me. The song with kelly Rowland is nice too. I like how the tracks come to together to form an overall tone that Ciara has never set before with an album as a whole. Every album after ‘evolution’ was never cohesive. But this one is a moody vibe that confirms she’s very much in love and happy.
This is probably her most cohesive body of work to date but something is still missing the mark here. Dose and trust myself are definitely standouts. I also like I love myself and freak me. Other than that this album is ok at best. But I appreciate Ciara for her hustler mentality.
Spot on. Not bad music but definitely not super moving either. In my opinion she seems stuck creatively. I’m not saying supporters should stop supporting but I hope to see he grow. I would like another by next year and I would like it to represent her getting lost in the art of music and performance. No more playing it safe and super packaged.
Her grow*
“Set” is straight heat. ??
Solid recovery from “Jackie”!!!!!
Honestly, this is garbage. Aside from thinking bout you and level up… this album as a total is completely forgettable. After listening to this album once nothing on it makes me want to listen again. Trust myself is the only track that even stood out. What a waste.
Thank you.. this must of been C Squad in the first comments. Cuz this album is trash
Most likely… I’m a fan of Ciara but a good albums a good album and this is not. It’s all over the place, she really needs to call up jazze and give us one more album from them… its been too long.
As an unbiased music listener and fan of Ciara, I have to agree. This is forgettable as hell. Jackie was way better. But happy she’s in control of her career and music now at the very least.
It’s a solid album. Would love to see visuals for
Trust Myself
Na Na / Freak Me
Girl Gang
Random: I wish Dance Like Were Making Love was on this album. I feel it’s missing track this album needs
I can’t get past those weak vocals. Why is this dancer still trying to sing?
Agree terrible
Can she please let go of whatever happened in her t*** years with Jazze Pha? This is just stubborn and simple minded at this point. Please call Jazze Ciara. Just stop this. Terrible Basic Low Quality music. Just stop
The singles release are the only standout tracks for me. With only 11 songs, 5 of which are released, there’s nothing left.
Other than “Set” this new songs are nothing. I love Ciara but she’s not a vocalist and the only chance for her to do well is giving us songs to dance the ish out of us like Level Up. After so many time since she didnt hit the charts, I would stick to the formula that really did her well. I really think even Jackie is better than this album. Sad.
Can’t with that paper thin voice
She came through on this one! Girl Gang Will be epic !!!
This album is iight at best no hate straight facts. Guess her Evolution album was her peak because nothing after lived up anymore.
she doesn’t have the ear/harmonies of janet or the tone of aaliyah so mostly turn up/performance songs work for her.. that’s what she should focus on
Album is straight ?????????
I love the album f*** you hating ass h*** regardless Ciara is getting her coins and gonna continue making music after this whether you motherfuckas hate it or NOT… She is talented and will always have longevity and respected in the game.
Pretty solid album, definitely a huge step up form that ‘Jackie’ album. And I find these negative comments about her ‘vocals’ laughable, especially since most of your faves nowadays couldn’t give decent vocals if a gun was put to their heads lol.
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I hate to say this about artists bc I believe in letting artists do what they want and release as much music as they want to, but with Ciara, I feel like her as a music artist is dated. She doesnt add anything to industry at this point in her career besides being an amazing performer. Her music now is all recycled versions of her old stuff and its a bit annoying at this point.Nothing innovative or inspiring. I wouldnt be mad if she just became a model and a respected business woman at this point and her us remember her musical legacy from her first couple of years. Bc now Im just like yawn and I hate that I feel that way about her now but it is what it is.
*let us remember