Iggy Azalea said how she wanted to talk about herself and her story more on her debut album. Taken in as an album and Azalea's constant "bow down" attitude makes this a cuckoldish experience, so think "some will pay for what others pay to avoid" and approach accordingly”. on the track list, along with the traptastic "Fancy" featuring Charli XCX, and The New Classic features an EP or so worth of memorable moments that mash fashion, sass, high tax bracket mackin', and flashy beats. Put the tried and true singalong "Change Your Life" with T.I. By the album-closing "F**K Love," her snarled declaration "I'm already in love with myself" is a redundant credo of epic proportions, but get past the narrow "me me me" theme of the album and it's amazing how "live" it all feels.Ĭhalk it up to cutting-edge taste as trapstep group Watch the Duck turn the cut "100" into something blog-worthy, while a Mavado appearance and an electro-dancehall production from the Invisible Men and the Arcade make "Lady Patra" the highlight to pick for Mad Decent or Diplo fans. Dating A$AP Rocky meant she had her rap game proper, and it was all the more tantalizing when her privileged party anthems landed some whip smart punch lines, but two tracks into The New Classic, "Don't Need Y'all" take her from detached to jaded, making this debut album one icy cold coming out party. “ Australian rapper Iggy Azalea's rise to Island Records/Hustle Gang status was quite strange, seeing as how she was a high fashion model gone Dirty South rap, like some kind of Down Under mix of Lana Del Rey and Trina. In their review, this is what AllMusic observed: Some felt that the songs on The New Classic were less forward-looking than those on E.P.s like Glory (2012). Azalea is confident and compelling through the album. Although there are a few collaborations ( Black Widow features Rita Ora Charli XCX is on Fancy), they are well-chosen and suit the song. I feel a track like Work could have opened The New Classic with greater aplomb. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing – perhaps a slight reshuffle would have created a better and more even listening experience. It means you get a relatively unspectacular start and end one then experiences the best bits in the centre. It is a rare case of the torso/middle of the album being stronger. Also, the final two tracks are not the best on the album. Although we get the singles nicely dispersed through The New Classic, I don’t think the album starts as strongly as it could have. Maybe one of the problems is the running order. The public reacted positively to the introduction of a wonderful talent. The fifth single, "Black Widow" featuring British singer Rita Ora, peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her highest-charting single as a lead artist on that chart, and also peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100”. The fourth single, "Fancy" featuring British singer Charli XCX was an international success, reaching the top-five in Australia and the United Kingdom, and peaking at number one in New Zealand, the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and the Canadian Hot 100.
The album's produced 5 singles, "Work", "Bounce", and "Change Your Life" were released as the first three singles all of which saw success in charts worldwide. The album also moved up to number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums, making Azalea the first non-American female rapper to reach the summit of these charts The New Classic was the highest-charting female rap album, since Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012) and the highest chart entry for a female rapper's debut album since Minaj's Pink Friday (2010) entered at number 2. “ The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 52,000 copies in the United States. If one judges it upon sales and chart positions, it can be seen as a success: : I shall bring in a couple of contrasting reviews. I really like the album and feel it was vastly underrated. Sydney-born Iggy Azalea (Amethyst Amelia Kelly) released her debut album, The New Classic, in 2014. It is an interesting phenomenon that fascinates me. The sales and popularity were not matched by critical reviews.
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