Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
by Pop Smoke
User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 51
  3. Negative: 8 out of 51
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  1. ShovelReviews
    May 21, 2021
    3
    If a spreadsheet made by a music executive decided to release an album, this is what it would sound like.

    Throughout it's hour long runtime, the record is simultaneously unfocused and repetitive. Almost every song lacks any sort of innovative sampling, relying on a mass-produced trap beat instead. If Pop Smoke's lyrics were interesting enough to stand by themselves, this wouldn't be a    If a spreadsheet made by a music executive decided to release an album, this is what it would sound like.

    Throughout it's hour long runtime, the record is simultaneously unfocused and repetitive. Almost every song lacks any sort of innovative sampling, relying on a mass-produced trap beat instead. If Pop Smoke's lyrics were interesting enough to stand by themselves, this wouldn't be a problem. But unfortunately, the musical unoriginality is backed up by lyrical blandness. The only songs that can consistently carry a train of thoughts from one stanza to the next are the ones that talk about sex. On all the other songs, the lyrics start talking about sex too, although this time it's more because they don't know what else to talk about. Occasionally they'll discuss drugs or money, just to spice things up a bit. The large numbers of features don't bring in anything new either, as the one-shot , thrown into the song with no direction, rarely bridge back to anything else sung. The one bright spot is Pop Smoke's voice - gravelly, uber-confident, and *different* from the rest of the rap game. I wish everything else in the album had the same uniqueness.    … Expand
  2. michaelmendz
    Aug 28, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Es un álbum demasiado largo, te aburres a mitad del disco y no lo puedes disfrutar… Expand
  3. Alexxcarpio131
    Aug 28, 2020
    0
    Es un álbum tan aburrido, es demasiado largo
  4. chickensusu
    Feb 24, 2021
    1
    i really dont like pop smokes music 1/10
    i really dont like pop smokes music 1/10
    i really dont like pop smokes music 1/10

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. HipHopDX
    Jul 16, 2020
    82
    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon offers a fleeting peek into the artist Pop would become—beyond Drill, beyond Brooklyn, beyond even the United States.
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  2. Consequence
    Jul 14, 2020
    67
    Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon neither blights nor burnishes Pop Smoke’s legacy. It’s fine. Better to remember Smoke as the dark-horse MVP candidate for summer 2019.
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  3. AllMusic
    Jul 13, 2020
    40
    Though the first two volumes of Meet the Woo lacked the bombast of Smoke's iconic singles, they demonstrated candor in their representation of the drill heavyweight; SFTSAFTM, by contrast, tarnishes the rapper's visionary style with predatory glitz as everyone jumps for a piece of the pie.
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