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Selena Gomez's second solo album "Revival" is a more deeper and atmospheric approach production wise. While Selena still maintains the EDM genre that was seen in her amazing solo debut "Stars Dance", "Revival" has a bit of a timeless eclectic disco influence on it. This is all shown off right up front with the progressive title track "Revival". Later, "Good For You" shows off the atmospheric production the best, while "Me & The Rhythm" is the most disco influenced gem on the album. There's alot to take in on "Revival", as the disco-influenced songs aren't the only type songs here. "Sober" is a great, extremely catchy pop hit. It's possibly the best on the whole album. Another is the confident, club-ready "Survivors", which sounds like it could belong on "Stars Dance". The upbeat latin-influenced "Body Heat" is also great, also sounding like an outtake from that of one of Justin Timberlake's albums. While "Revival" has some good songs to instantly fall in love with, the rest of the album unfortunately fails to add up. After the title track shows unique promise, "Kill Em With Kindness" starts a weakness that the rest of the album follows that's heard over the rest of the album.. The lyrical content. This ends up being the album's biggest weakness, as every song follows the same writing patterns. Short verses, then extremely repetitive choruses. If the songs just had a bit more lyrical content in the choruses instead of just repeating the title of the song over and over, they all would've been so much better. How it frustrates is while each song promises to be decent, it feels like it never quite reaches the goal it intends. It contains a promising message, but then it wastes too much time repeating itself over and over, never really completing the song's story. This unfortunately makes the songs slightly annoying and forgettable. The ballad breaks "Camouflage" and "Rise" are okay, but end up being skippable moments inside an album of upbeat dance songs. All the deluxe tracks contain nothing special, but the best ones would be the second latin-influenced "Outta My Hands (Loco)", the ballad "Nobody", and then the spunky "Me & My Girls" for it's funky instrumental trumpet break. Overall though, if you look past the repetitive lyrics, Revival's overall result IS a more unique dance album for today's age, but this is ultimately all it will be remembered as. Not something that's really groundbreaking. The one thing that keeps the spark alive though is of course Selena Gomez and her, as always, admirable persona.

RATING- 6 / 10

(Original Rating- 5 / 10)
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Track Picks:

Revival
Sober
Me & The Rhythm
Survivors
Body Heat
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