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10.0
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10.0 |
NME
Tinashe is no longer chasing approval. Instead, she’s bold, unpigeonholeable and certain of who she is as a person and artist
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9.0
146917
9.0 |
musicOMH
American R&B artist expands her palette and subverts expectation on liberatingly chaotic and fun eighth album
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9.0
146918
9.0 |
Pitchfork
Tinashe’s eighth album is her best and bravest yet: more ambitious, more focused, and effortlessly in touch with the zeitgeist. It’s the best pop album of the year
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9.0
146947
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
This popstar is ready to blossom into the megastar she deserves to be and this exceptional album should be the one to do it
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8.3
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8.3 |
Paste Magazine
The musician’s eighth full-length combines some of her most experimental, genre-blending sounds with her stickiest hooks on an autobiographical trip through stardom and celebrity
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8.0
146920
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
For all of her career, Tinashe has questioned what it means to be a popstar, and here, she does so explicitly. But Popstar is less of a thesis statement than a coming to terms with the identity she's chosen for herself
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8.0
146954
8.0 |
Still Listening
Tinashe turns the pressures of chasing pop stardom into a record built for the dancefloor
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7.5
146951
7.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Sixteen tracks and not a single guest. That is unusual for a major-label pop album in 2026 and it is clearly deliberate, particularly from someone whose breakout single was built around a rapper’s verse
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6.0
146921
6.0 |
Exclaim
On Popstar, Tinashe remains at the front of the class, teaching material she has known long enough to deliver with her eyes closed
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