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Aug 1, 2017The back half is full of heartbreak, happiness, and all things teenage life over some really good instrumentals varying from trap to reggae to ballads. It has arc. It has feeling. But for some reason, Yachty thought that bragging about himself, calling out haters, and trying to prove that he can rap (he shouldn’t so much) was more important than creating something focused and sincere.
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Jun 1, 2017For the majority of the 20 tracks, each has a different producer and no two songs sound alike. This both helps and hinders the listening experience. On one hand, the scattered sounds align perfectly with the overarching idea of wildly varying teenage emotions, but on the other, it’s hard to attentively listen to all the way through--especially with a whopping 21 songs.
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May 30, 2017It’s a confusing but enjoyable record that sidesteps the rap hand-wringing and telegraphed weirdness of the drama surrounding Yachty.
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May 30, 2017Its best moments are closer to pop-punk and synth-pop than anything resembling traditional hip-hop.
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May 30, 2017It’s a graphic exemplar of the contemporary Atlanta sound: stark backing, nagging hook and staccato wordplay, as distinct from the lyricism that traditionalists hold dear.
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Jun 6, 2017The album's 70-minute length allows enough space for a bounty of mostly nondescript trap productions that support these simplistic boasts. In these tracks, Yachty sounds like he's going through a phase more than refining his individualism.
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Jun 2, 2017As is, Teenage Emotions reads more like that freshman-year college paper you really wish you’d just deleted off your hard drive.
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Jun 2, 2017He is at his most interesting on the few occasions where he slips into a sort of uncanny valley of pop music--a bizarro fantasia that he arrives at honestly, like a less satirical PC Music.
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May 30, 2017At over an hour in length, Teenage Emotions is more quantity than quality.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 111
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Mixed: 20 out of 111
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Negative: 61 out of 111
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