User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
  • Record Label:
  • Release Date:
Romance Image
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 2370 Ratings

  • Summary: The second full-length solo release for the former Fifth Harmony singer features guest appearances from DaBaby and Shawn Mendes.
Buy Now
Buy on
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Dec 6, 2019
    85
    “Romance” is a record that bumps her up a level as an artist, without trying to advance her into maturity too fast. Those closing tracks do set you up, anyway, for larger leaps.
  2. Dec 10, 2019
    80
    An album where she keeps finding ways to give her artistry a new edge.
  3. Dec 12, 2019
    80
    Throughout “Romance,” the pop machinery clicks cleverly and efficiently into place around Cabello’s voice. The productions tend to be sparse — spooky electronic sounds, an occasional acoustic or electric guitar, hefty but discreet drums — and even where the choruses ratchet up, Cabello’s voice often stays close and confiding.
  4. Dec 16, 2019
    61
    Cabello’s willingness to assist in [the music industry’s embrace of the “Latin” sound] caricature elsewhere distracts from the otherwise interesting Spanish-classical and Santana-esque riffs on Romance.
  5. 60
    On the unreleased tracks, genuine surprises are few. But the campy prowl of My Oh My and the high-stakes breathiness of Bad Kind of Butterflies keep the balance tilted away from syrupy dross, in favour of fun.
  6. Dec 6, 2019
    60
    Romance still relies on a structure that is becoming increasingly irrelevant, which ultimately overshadows many of the album's redeemable moments.
  7. Dec 5, 2019
    40
    The album can be dazzling in its ruthless sense of purpose: the closing First Man is an effective tearjerker in which a new bride addresses her father, which may well end up where it clearly wants to be, as a staple of wedding dances. Sometimes, however, the songwriting is just so-so. ... A flawed album.

See all 12 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Dec 6, 2019
    10
    Álbum perfeito,musicas com letras tocantes e vocais perfeitos...UM DOS MELHORES ÁLBUNS DO ANO E NEM CHOREM ARIANATORS
  2. Dec 6, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O álbum Romance de Camila Cabello é repleto de canções com diferentes sonoridades e vocais maravilhosos. Um trabalho brilhante com uma explosão de sentimentos que você sente ao escutar a canções. Expand
  3. Dec 6, 2019
    10
    Absolutely amazing to see the growth and maturity Camila has achieved compared to CAMILA without losing her charm.
  4. Dec 7, 2019
    10
    AOTY OMG
    coherence, cohesion, visuals. This album is perfect, an impressive evolution of the artist who is camila cabello, and all this
    AOTY OMG
    coherence, cohesion, visuals. This album is perfect, an impressive evolution of the artist who is camila cabello, and all this before our eyes for her is the relative new artist. Matched with a melodic, musical quality of her composition. camila ARTIST
    Expand
  5. Dec 7, 2019
    10
    IT'S JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL (and a little bit emo, lol) ALBUM I'VE EVER HEARD!!! ❤️✨
  6. Jan 16, 2020
    10
    for me this album its wasy much better than her first one. the sounds, lyrics and vocals are better
  7. Dec 7, 2019
    0
    Esse album é pior do que hitler, sem coesão, letras razas e apelativas que so comove adolescentes de 13 anos, eu nunca ouvi algo tão ruimEsse album é pior do que hitler, sem coesão, letras razas e apelativas que so comove adolescentes de 13 anos, eu nunca ouvi algo tão ruim assim desde o debut album da mesma, o tanto de autotune usado neste disco deixaria ate mesmo alvin e os esquilos envergonhados, a voz dessa garota é mais irritante e doi mais que o desemprego no Brasil, além de tudo colocou o apelo forçado aka pornorita pra ter streams pq sabia que ia flopar mais que seus últimos 300 singles que foram lançados pra tentar hitar. camila, vc nunca será artista, NUNCA! Expand

See all 1304 User Reviews