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  1. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After releasing an album after four years, it really shows the growth and self love in this album. The album has lived up to its expectation showing new sounds and being unique in its own way. Selena has shown a wide range of versatility throughout this album and does provide and quality set of songs to listen too Expand
  2. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Beautifully made! All songs have single qualities and has no skips! Title track is a beautiful start and Sweeter Place ends it perfectly!
  3. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    AMAZING. Her best album. The rhythm is unbelievable, great job Selena Gomez!
  4. Jan 11, 2020
    10
    It's such an amazing album. There is no basic generic boring song at all. It's so unique. It's literally Selena's type of song. An album with no skip. I love it.
  5. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Selena shows a very, very sultry and confident side with this album. A very disco dance vibe. The songs might be about love and discovering you deserve much better in life than what happens to you, but the lyrics are still different and cool. The production is clean and doesn't overpower her voice. It takes two or three listens to catch on!
  6. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. MARAVILHOSO. As composições são as incríveis, super inspiradoras, deixando uma linda me de amor próprio e auto aceitação deixando no passado os relacionamentos e pessoas tóxicas que passaram na sua vida. O Grammy vem certeza Expand
  7. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ES EL MEJOR ÁLBUM QUE HE ESCUCHADO EN MI VIDA, estoy orgulloso de este gran trabajo. Gracias Selena por regalarnos tanto arte Expand
  8. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Um álbum incrível! Muito importante conhecer esse novo lado da história.. selena está perfeita!
  9. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I loved Rare, each song has different vibes that make them unique and perfect, there are no skips, all bops. I liked this new Selena so **** much, more mature and with lyrics with great meanings, I LOVE IT FROM THE BEGINNING TO END. Expand
  10. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Her best album yet. Authentically her!!! Amazing production, sound, versatility, and lyrics. I’m at a loss of words by how incredible the album is, it was TOTALLY worth the wait!!!
  11. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    One of the best pop albums ever made. It’s fun, fresh and a pleasure from the first do the last minute. Selena Gomez it’s one of the gems of our generation and maybe with “Rare” people will realize this.
  12. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Amazing sounds, emotionally, I can't describe how much I love this album, the queen is back
  13. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It's a MASTERPIECE. Her best album. So rare and special. Since I was a little kid I know Selena would be someone amazing. With this album she confirmed I wasn't wrong. This album is something bigger than anything we've heard from her before. The waiting was really worth it.
  14. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    talented, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, totally unique, never the same...
  15. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It's perfect pop dance
    The Voice of Selena is godness
    The best álbum of her
  16. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Speechless & Mind-blowing..... This was the state I was in when I heard the album at 12 am in India..... I was already having high expectations and expecting the unexpecting but she blew all those from me... Cause RARE is something unique and fresh and raw.... All the lyrics are very relatable and very EMPOWERING.... All the tracks from the album has its own identity and all those tracksSpeechless & Mind-blowing..... This was the state I was in when I heard the album at 12 am in India..... I was already having high expectations and expecting the unexpecting but she blew all those from me... Cause RARE is something unique and fresh and raw.... All the lyrics are very relatable and very EMPOWERING.... All the tracks from the album has its own identity and all those tracks are very fresh... JUST LISTEN TO IT AND YOU WILL KNOW... Expand
  17. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Just: WOW! This Is totally a new sound, just like she did with Look at her now, I think I have never listen something with this style, the lyrics are so good, the production Is IN.SA.NE , its not repetitive. The album cover is so simple but its original, I think everything is perfectly done and have SO MUCH details that makes it special ✨
  18. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    De todos os álbuns da Selena "Rare" conseguiu expressar mais autenticidade, sentimento e confiança.
    Ela passou por tanta coisa durante e após a era Revival que esse novo álbum soa como um canto de liberdade e confiança!
  19. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    É um álbum lindo. As melodias são contagiantes e as letras muito reais e pessoais. Eu amei!
  20. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    She found her real voice and created a fun album, with a variety of sounds and styles.
  21. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    The best album Selena's put out there!! It's not like any other music. It's raw, fun, RARE! It's truely just beautiful. Everyone is hating on her for not having a good voice, but I think a good voice doesn’t have to be screaming. It’s AMAZING, if I could rate it more then 10 I would!
  22. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It’s so good, her voice is so beautiful. I’m so proud of her. Every songs is a BOP (ring is my favorite I think...too hatd to choose actually)
  23. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Selena's best album, I'm very sure of that. In this album I use new sounds, this is something we had never heard. Decade Album
  24. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Rare es todo lo bueno que hay en el mundo, cada canción cuenta una historia diferente pero que va ligada a algo, esto está muy bien.
  25. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It’s the best **** album of all the Selena’s career. I love her and I love the sounds of the album, are so **** good.
  26. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    This album has great songs, all complete, lyrics and arrangements are great was very well produced, Selena did a great job and deserves all the recognition that is having.
  27. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    Her best album up to now. It’s not your generic pop album.. she went for a different sound.. and the risk and wait for this album was worth it
  28. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    best new album !! sweeter place with kid cudi so good! self track too, ring too! all the songs so good love u selena
  29. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    I can’t get enough! There are literally no skips on the album. Each song is so different and good.
  30. Jan 10, 2020
    10
    It‘s literally her BEST!! She really did something so new and inspiring and I LOVE it honestly!!
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Jan 15, 2020
    60
    Rare continually teases intriguing forays into leftfield pop, but so many of the album’s experiments come off as just that, without ever crystallizing with memorable hooks.
  2. Jan 14, 2020
    80
    The record she has delivered to kickstart a new decade is a career defining release, and from a pop star who is firmly back on top of her game.
  3. Jan 14, 2020
    68
    While none of these 13 songs attempt the subtle weirdness of “Bad Liar” and the emotional thesis—self-love!—can be a bit one-note, Rare is the 27-year-old’s most cohesive record to date. ... But it’s difficult to come away from Rare with any real perspective on who Gomez is other than that she doesn’t want to be the person she was, whoever that similarly mysterious shadow was.