Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors

[Mikal]

The album's back half is the strongest. It has more personality and the run from One of Us is all classics.

Initial rank because why not

Spoiler

I can hear God
1. Dancing's Done
2. Get Outta My Heart
3. One of Us

Excellence
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Cold As Ice
6. Last Night on Earth
7. Diamonds & Dancefloors

Bangers
8. Maybe You're the Problem
9. Ghost
10. Sleepwalker

Fine, I'll bop
11. Hold Up (Wait a Minute)
12. Weapons
13. Turn Off the Lights
14. In the Dark

Ghost slaps obviously but I do feel the production is a bit skeletal. It could definitely go harder. Last Night on Earth and the title track are gorgeous surprises.

 

[FunkyButChic]

Yeah, this is basically a bops-only affair and I stan. The biggest problem with the first album was that it all felt too try-hard, but outside of Weapons that issue isn't present here.

Currently living for One of Us in all of it's ABBA-cosplay glory.

 

[Bon Frère]

Gays going “thank you Ava for my gym playlist” as if they play Bob Dylan or a Mozart the rest of the day dd

If you don’t think Ava Max and Ave Maria aren’t designed to destroy my buns as a power couple, then you have another thing coming.

 

[LGStan93]

If you don’t think Ava Max and Ave Maria aren’t designed to destroy my buns as a power couple, then you have another thing coming.

 

[Mikey1701]

Ghost slaps obviously but I do feel the production is a bit skeletal. It could definitely go harder.

I agree here, although icanheargod.gif.

I’m praying for an Until Dawn Remix at some point. They have a knack for really elevating tracks. They worked wonders with Claire Richard’s On My Own.

 

[Rose-Coloured Boy]

Mother of Pop really came through with this!

 

[The Art Installation]

Last Night On Earth is better than Ghost tbh.

 

[Alenko]

The title track giving me ATC vibes.

 

[The Art Installation]

If this triumph of an album wasn't enough, the track by track descriptions of the tracks she gave to Apple Music have sealed my stan card. High camp. Right out of the Spears playbook.

"Cold As Ice"
"The heating wasn't working in my mansion that day, so I got inspired..." - Ava Max, artist

 

[AshtrayHeart]

After hearing the new album this morning I ditched work to rush to HMV and snatched the vinyl. I’ve never really bothered with Ava but this album is a triumph.

 

[Majora85]

Spotify lyrics says she sings 'conception' in Sleepwalker but it's Inception surely?

 

[tom]

Spotify lyrics says she sings 'conception' in Sleepwalker but it's Inception surely?

It’s definitely inception

 

[poshlopez]

Ghost is everything!

 

[The Art Installation]

SCREAM at Last Night On Earth being inspired by San Andreas (starring Kylie Minogue!), Geostorm and aliens.

 

[Diet Pop!]

Sleepwalker is the one!

 

[idratherjack]

The album is so good I just bought the Amazon alternate artwork cover on CD. Really hope they press a deluxe vinyl using the new digital cover too.

 

[Mikal]

Some of the riffs on the title track are so My Head & My Heart. Great song.

 

[Macsun]

Ace of Base and ABBA comparisons?! Sign me up!

 

[Vasilios]

So they really released the three weaker songs from this as singles 1 & 2 plus a prerelease track. Who and why.

 

[vendredi]

So they really released the three weaker songs from this as singles 1 & 2 plus a prerelease track. Who and why.

I will say, Maybe You're The Problem was a great choice and should have been colossal for her. That's the public's problem.

Million Dollar Baby as the follow up and Weapons and One Of Us as pre-release tracks however were... bizarre choices.