Chris

I didn't know we needed any more of this pop crap. I found the music completely boring. Even as background droning it was hardly bearable. I stopped after two tracks.
1/5

Nonsense, but a good way round any writer's block issues - just write two sets of words for each song and throw them out with zero quality control.
This was picked out the day the Paris Olympics opened, maybe by coincidence, maybe not, but it made for a very French day in my house.

Modern pop. Sounds sexier in French.

way too long, didn’t care enough to hear the french versions of the songs

This was an interesting listen. First, it was WAY too long, given the content (it was listening to the same album twice, essentially). I certainly prefer the second half of the album that is mostly in French. This is not the first case of releasing two versions of the same album in different languages, so I'm not sure why this is here. Side A: 3/5. Side B: 3.4/5. 3.2/5 -> 3/5.

Este disco lo he escuchado pero recuerdo poco, excepto el "Follarse". Tengo muy buenos recuerdos de su otro trabajo, Chaleur Humaine que no sé si estará en la lista.

The French are just so good at music, aren't they? This is totally pleasant 80s-style pop that never stumbles into pastiche. Maybe a little too light in places, but it just sounds so damn nice.

I wanted to like it, but it was musically boring.

Wie is deze Chris nou weer? In elk geval iemand met een liefde voor MJ. Dat steek je met zo'n albumintro niet onder stoelen of banken. Je haalt je wel heel wat op de hals. Want als je Jackson kwaliteit belooft, moet je dat nog waarmaken. Dat doe je niet zomaar. Want Michael was groot.

Chris houdt MJ er ook na het eerste nummer in. De muzikale basis van het tweede nummer lijkt wel uit een copy-paste van de basis van een rustig MJ nummer. Nu heeft MJ niet alleen zijn uit duizenden te herkennen muziek, hij had daarboven op een unieke zang. Hij kreeg het voor elkaar om met veel valse lucht en veel kreten prima te klinken. En daar gaat het mis bij Chris. De zang heeft niets bijzonders. Het is veel te soepel. Het wordt daardoor snel een saai geheel. En dan los je de belofte van je MJ-intro simpelweg niet in.

I think I would buy the French version of this album, but I have no idea if I'm supposed to base my review on the English version, French version, or double album

Generally, I am not looking for my pop tunes to harken back to an era of mediocre synths and instantly dated instrumentation, the late 80s, but I feel like this album balances it just enough for it to not be too egregious. However, this was a little bit of a slog to get through, just because the album is other an hour-and-a-half with both parts, and while some songs shine on one or the other more, it can still be tough to get through in one sitting. It leads a lot to the album feeling repetitive, because not only is it pretty similar throughout already, but listening to everything twice with slight delivery tweaks is not worth the time spent. You may say "then don't listen to both parts," but I feel if they spent the time to translate every song here, and put it all in one bundle, then the full thing must have been intended. It is an album that I think would've been enjoyable, but nothing special, but that length hurts it all the more. I could see myself liking something more by Chris, something more upbeat or darker in tone, but for now this is an okay dive into 80s synthpop nostalgia. If you're only going to listen to one side, do the French one, it is delivered better and was surely the intentional route.

Fine. 2.5/5

Not bad, but not my kind of album. I prefer the French versions of the songs generally. One and a half hours is just too long for an album like this however.

Not a terrible album, somewhat boring to me. Overall just not something I'm that interested in. 2/5

Meget moderne pop. Godt produceret og en sjov blanding af fransk/engelsk.

Synth pop revival from France in the vein of Future Islands or La Roux. Bright and upbeat tones with a darker minor key mood give it that darkly euphoric bittersweet feel. Tastefully indulgent and skirting the line between earnestness and irony, the album is full of all sorts of corny stuff from the Nile Rodgers disco guitars to the cheesy synth/keyboard patches. Falsetto singing: fragile and introspective until it reaches for the big power lines. It's all pleasant enough, but it sounds like music for a Parisian H&M - trendy and fun presentation of glossy surfaces that suggest a darker understory.

It's French, it's poppy, it's not bad.

Some of the synth beats were quite good, but on a whole I didn't like it, highly doubt I'm the target audience.

(S)he has great tone. The tone is that electro pop rock sound. a couple tracks in and im intrigued but not blown away yet.

Michael Jackson is alive and well and secretly producing albums in France. Here is your proof.