Brightest Blue
by Ellie Goulding
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 286 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 248 out of 286
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 286
  3. Negative: 23 out of 286
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  1. MarcosAleman
    Jul 17, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Boring beat. No emotion and really weak lyrics, every song is a boring overproduced mess of generic pop… Expand
  2. JoshRoberts95
    Jul 17, 2020
    3
    Just feel let down. Ellie Goulding is normally really good at hitting you with songs that are fresh and interesting. A lot of these songs sound really similar with not a lot happening in terms of melody, as well as none of these truly making full use of her unique vocals. Feels like there were no risks taken and nothing really invokes any real emotion. Any kind of soulful acoustic soundingJust feel let down. Ellie Goulding is normally really good at hitting you with songs that are fresh and interesting. A lot of these songs sound really similar with not a lot happening in terms of melody, as well as none of these truly making full use of her unique vocals. Feels like there were no risks taken and nothing really invokes any real emotion. Any kind of soulful acoustic sounding song she does on here is literally done a million times better on previous albums.
    Also, some tracks are only a minute long And I seriously question why they’re included.    … Expand
  3. All_ButTrU4
    Aug 24, 2022
    0
    She really did try but unfortunately due to her limited range even her extremes are extremely mediocre

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. AllMusic
    Jul 23, 2020
    80
    Brightest Blue's main disc is Goulding's deepest emotional journey yet, a triumph of empowerment and self-discovery.
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  2. Pitchfork
    Jul 22, 2020
    64
    While Blue is thoughtful and beautiful, it’s a drag to sit through. The interludes have more personality than the full-length songs.
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Jul 21, 2020
    30
    For the most part, she doesn’t have the chops or soul of contemporaries like Florence Welch, who sings of similar subject matter with a real torch, and who shares a collaborator in Joseph Kearns, who produced almost every song on Brightest Blue. At Kearns’s behest, the album takes a relatively new tack for Goulding, trading the garish for the palatable, but it’s no less grating as a result.
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