Smile
by Katy Perry
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Aug 28, 2020
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 11514 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,454 out of 11514
  2. Mixed: 291 out of 11514
  3. Negative: 1,769 out of 11514
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  1. gabrazileiro
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    'Smile' é um álbum dançante e divertido. Excelente como tudo o que Katy se propõe a fazer!
  2. Marc_telex
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Smile é um dos melhores álbuns da Katy, sem dúvidas, ela arrasa em tudo que faz, ela fez absolutamente tudo.
  3. Marceloona
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    A wonderful album from beginning to end. The lyrics on the album match a lot of what Katy went through during her depression, and after she got better. The melodies are excellent and dancing. Thank you and good luck Katy!
  4. Orlandoes62
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This album is amazing. She opens the album with something as perfect as Never Really Over, and ends with something as empowering as What Makes a Woman. Simply powerful.
  5. marc0x
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    álbum perfeito e maravilhosos igual tudo que a katy Perry faz, sem nenhum defeito
  6. ElbioGCH
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    You've done it again Katy Perry! This album perfectly conforms to the sounds of pop, electro and midtemppo. You can see mainly how it is made up of love, and a very important background in your life! Really impressed. Congratulations Katy
    El álbum es muy bueno y merece tener el reconocimiento debido, este es el pop que a la música le falta desde 2016.
  7. dudasmoreira
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    That's a really great album, doesn't have a none unique bad song. Katy tell us her story about this three years where she loses her life control and take the right back founding her smile and a genuine and pure love (orlando & daisy). To the haters and critics (that, actually, seem like they don't know how to make a good and constructive critic without make PERSONAL attacks to katy) iThat's a really great album, doesn't have a none unique bad song. Katy tell us her story about this three years where she loses her life control and take the right back founding her smile and a genuine and pure love (orlando & daisy). To the haters and critics (that, actually, seem like they don't know how to make a good and constructive critic without make PERSONAL attacks to katy) i wish ONLY LOVE.… Expand
  8. Golishv
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Omg The best album katy perry !!
    Great concept !
    Perfect Ryhtm !
    Bop !!
    Best album of the year
  9. JrTosca
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    this is absolutly AMAZING!!!!! this music touch my soul, and im so happy por her.. only love for KP
  10. BlancaChairez01
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Arte en todo su esplendor.
    Cada canción del álbum tiene ése toque especial que sólo Perry tiene.
  11. Adjamirarruda
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great album, the best music is teary eyes e cry about it later, queen did that… Expand
  12. KPerrysGaga
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    KATY PERRY IS BACK! I love this album so much! All the messages throughout the songs really push this record to a new level! My personal faves are Tucked, Cry about it later, only love and champagne problems
  13. Jeanconde
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    No soy una persona mucho de escuchar álbumes, Pero este álbum me ha demostrado que puedo llorar mientras bailo, lloro y grito. AMO está pieza de arte
  14. GUILHERMEBHZZ
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. BEST album ever! I returned to smile with myself. thanks Katy Perry for making me shine like a FIREWORK again! @guilhermebhzz from BRAZIL … Expand
  15. phlgss
    Aug 28, 2020
    4
    While, overall, this isn't as offensive bad as her previous "effort", Witness, it also doesn't have the interesting highs that album had --Roulette, Tsunami, DejaVu, Bon Appetit. So what you end up with is a collection of mediocre (not terrible, just very mediocre) songs that add nothing to anything, much less to Katy Perry's artistic merit.

    If you put Katy's discography from Teenage    While, overall, this isn't as offensive bad as her previous "effort", Witness, it also doesn't have the interesting highs that album had --Roulette, Tsunami, DejaVu, Bon Appetit. So what you end up with is a collection of mediocre (not terrible, just very mediocre) songs that add nothing to anything, much less to Katy Perry's artistic merit.

    If you put Katy's discography from Teenage Dream to this album on shuffle, you won't be able to pinpoint what album is each song from. They all sound the same. There is no artistic growth at all. Lyrically, she remains using the same cliches and predictable phrases you'll find on cheap inspirational Instagram accounts.

    The saddest part of this album isn't that you have to bash it for being terrible, while trying to be something. That was the case for Witness, which despite being terrible, had something going for it. She TRIED to do something with that. She failed, because she obviously didn't have it in her to pull it off, but there was effort there. The saddest part of this album is that it clearly shows that she doesn't even try anymore. It says more about her as an "artist" than about the album itself.

    At the end, it isn't good, it isn't bad, it's not anything. It's just there.

    I would say that the only offensively bad thing here is that album cover. Jesus.    … Expand
  16. Yina1311
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is an album that transmits happiness, I love how it is expressed, without a doubt one of my favorite álbum.… Expand
  17. Daromi
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. his best album so far. Although they are all art, this new one is a new classic.… Expand
  18. Chipsfelipe
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Um álbum maravilhoso, coesão e resiliência os definem, um trabalho impecável! Estou impressionado!!! Obrigado Katy s2
  19. pedrocostacrazy
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    She's got a point, she's an icon, she's a legend and she is the moment. Thank you for this masterpiec, Katy Perry
  20. kem4
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Congratulations Katy. it's a great comeback. Not the end of the world is my favorite song for this album.
  21. Abigailsmile
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amo todos las canciones de ese álbum, tremenda joyita… Expand
  22. Johantoribio123
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Thankful for everything you do, the effort and love you put into each song is incredible. I will never stop following Katy.
    Great you are Diosty Perry
  23. Kelpin
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    No skips this album is better than witness like WOW i love Cry about it later its a bop!
  24. Alfonsod123
    Aug 28, 2020
    0
    I think is kinda Cool but nothing new, still the same katy perry from the last decade
  25. alexander_novoa
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    este álbum es una maravilla, katy siempre ha demostrado lo talentosa que es y smile no fue la excepción
  26. Lun4_6A
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Es perfecto, sus vocales, sus letras, su mejor álbum sin duda, simplemente una obra maestra del Pop
  27. Josue13
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's the best album Katy has delivered until now. She did not just put some songs in a random order, she's giving us a journey to reach healing and happiness, she deserves a 10 from all of us, rather you are a fan or not.… Expand
  28. seba7u7
    Aug 28, 2020
    6
    lo siento Reinaty pero tus fans son unos colapsados, pobre reina aparte de filtrarte el álbum te dejan mal.

    #StreamSmile
    #StreamFolklore
    #ChromaticaBasuraAsquerosa
  29. Katyperr
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. “Smile” has some sparklers. But if there’s any phrase that could be operative with any review of almost any Katy Perry full-length, it’s “mixed results,” and the new album is not about to tip that balance in any significant way.… Expand
  30. Longoria_
    Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Smile es un álbum que todos necesitábamos en esta pandemia, Katy nos demuestra su lado más personal, no hay necesidad de comparar a Katy con Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande o cualquier otra artista pues ella tiene su propio estilo y es algo que marco historia en el pop.
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58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. AllMusic
    Sep 8, 2020
    60
    Without fleeting moments of bad taste, Perry does indeed sound mature, but she's also not quite as fun. That's a conscious choice, though. Smile is intended to evoke memories of her frivolous younger days while pointing toward a sustainable pop future.
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  2. No Ripcord
    Sep 4, 2020
    50
    While Perry finds the occasional moment of quality here (Smile and Tucked both feel like the best possible music we could get from Katy Perry in 2020), Smile is an album searching for an identity—and when it fails, it falls back on lazy writing.
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  3. PopMatters
    Aug 31, 2020
    60
    Like Joanne before Chromatica, Smile plays like a necessary centering exercise, indulging her insecurities and less surefire instincts. If Witness was overdetermined, Smile is an earnest exhale, for better or for worse. It delivers an image of her journey towards inner peace that is honest (if corny) and catchy (if not exactly inventive).
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