• Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Aug 28, 2020
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8.3

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  1. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    impeccable work with a very beautiful message. katy is to be congratulated and this is certainly one of her best works.
  2. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lyrically, Vocally and the production proves that is Katy Perry is back!Gonna recommend this. Expand
  3. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    A fresh sound! CAIL just a masterpiece
  4. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    an amazing album were katy perry tell her story to us, shes incredibly strong
  5. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Coesão incrível, todas as faixas se completam, Perry se superou em entregar um álbum extremamente coeso
  6. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Este álbum es perfecto. Realmente se ve una madurez de Katy y pues no queda decir más que denle una oportunidad y escuchenlo:3 Expand
  7. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Smile is one of her best works to date. The production, the vocals, the beats. 10/10 for me.
  8. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This is her best album truly a masterpiece if i say so myself the first 3 tracks are pop excellence and the album as a whole is pop excellence
  9. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Simply Amazing! The story she is telling is so powerful, love how it’s divided in 4 sections - tears, resilience, happiness and love. So sad critics can not understand this.
  10. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    There is no bad songs in this album. The concept is awesome, and all the lyrics are amazing. She really released her best album ever. Congrats Katy.
  11. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Maybe the best record in her discography. It will give you your smile back. My favorites are Cry about it later, Not the end of the World, Tucked and Only Love
    Very personal and intense album. I recommend it to everyone ❤️
  12. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This album is great, Katy make my smile back after listen to it. It's her best work
  13. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    It's so good. Best songs are cry about it later, resilient, never really over
  14. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Не могу слушать этот альбом без слез, зная, через что прошла Кэти и в какие времена она писала его.
  15. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. O sucessor do Witness é perfeito Stream na mamãe do pop Cry About It Later best music Expand
  16. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    "Smile" It has that typical vibe that Perry albums contain, it makes you smile with each song, without a doubt an album that surpasses its predecessor in all aspects, it is as if each song was a "bop"
  17. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Amazing like always, full of emotion from her. It's a beautiful personal album!
  18. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Perfect! One of my favorite albums, my 3rd one, 1 Teenage Dream, 2 Prism, 3 Smile
  19. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Skipless. Fun. Pop perfection. Only Love gave me the healing that I've needed during the pandemic.
  20. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    For me, Katy has matured so much in her own art. She has always been trying to experience with new sounds, words. This album is a worthy record that you should spend at least 10 times listening to work out the messages Katy put in.
  21. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Unexpectedly great. Her best album! Cry About it Later, Teary Eyes, Champagne Problems, Tucked and Not the End of the World could all be amazing singles. The album is a more cohesive and mature version of Teenage Dream, and it means a lot for a pop album.
  22. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Good album by Katy Perry even I'm not her fan.The album is cohesive and amazing which deserve high review from metacritic at least 80/100.
  23. Aug 28, 2020
    9
    Katy Perry brought some of the best albums of his career and the year, it means positioning him to leave a lot behind and I came a totally thunderous thing! Each track has its own emotion, a highlight for 'Cry About It Later' that the most prominent song and ears vibrate, including in its dance-like chorus and weighty instrumentals.
    Currently this disco art is among the pop world, but Katy
    Katy Perry brought some of the best albums of his career and the year, it means positioning him to leave a lot behind and I came a totally thunderous thing! Each track has its own emotion, a highlight for 'Cry About It Later' that the most prominent song and ears vibrate, including in its dance-like chorus and weighty instrumentals.
    Currently this disco art is among the pop world, but Katy brought in a better way and a dance ballad and with a quality and mega production. His vocals on each track are irrefutable to come back and listen again. I see an album with few median tracks, the title track 'Smile' is something very weak but it is not enough to be highlighted by something negative. The concept of clowning gave a more perspective and evolving look, and its participation and touch of Katy Perry in each track.
    The album brings this of evolution and mature, with intense lyrics and incredible vocals that we find in all arrangements.
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  24. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Katy make the best album of 2020. Hitmaker. Queen. Legend. It's Katy Perry ****
  25. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    Álbum perfeito, músicas super dançantes e que arrepiam sendo que ao mesmo tempo tocam nossa alma. Katy Perry realmente me fez sorrir.
  26. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Simplemente perfecto, de los mejores discos de Katy , supero todas mis expectativas que tenia de una manera increible Expand
  27. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    it's so good to see that Katy has finally found her smile. best album of it and only my opinion matters!
  28. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    the best album of carrer

    katy esta brilhante em smile uns dos seus melhores album sem duvidas !
  29. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    It’s sooooo good, Katy outdid herself this time, surpassing even her most iconic album ‘teenage dream’ ,but there’s a problem and it’s not about the album nor Katy, but the critics seem to be reviewing Katy as a person instead of the music. METACRITIC YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS MESS, DO BETTER!
  30. Aug 28, 2020
    10
    You can see how she grew through the pain and came out of her dark place with one of her best albums ever, if not the best. You heal yourself with her while listening to it. That’s pure greatness! A heavenly record that deserves all the love in the world.
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58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).