Fresh
Artist: Gina G.

Gina G. may want to be Madonna, but her admiration for the queen of dance-pop is so unabashed and affectionate, it's hard not to be suckered into her debut, Fresh. From its self-consciously controversial cover art, featuring Gina smeared in chocolate, to its relentless barrage of bouncy, up-tempo dance-pop, Fresh is an homage to early Madonna,... Read More

R.
Artist: R. Kelly
Community Score: 7.84

At the beginning of the '90s, R. Kelly was seen as a lewd, lascivious soulman. By the end of the decade, he had stripped those adjectives away and was seen as a contemporary equivalent of Marvin Gaye, thanks to the enormous success of "I Believe I Can Fly." Appropriately, R., the double-disc album that followed "I Believe I Can Fly"'s parent... Read More

The Best of Crystal Waters
Artist: Crystal Waters
I Wanna Be the Only One
Artist: Eternal
Robyn Is Here
Artist: Robyn
Community Score: 6.48

Robyn's debut album, Robyn Is Here, isn't particularly deep, but it is well-executed Eurotrash dance-pop. The Swedish teenager has an appealingly thin voice, and her producers and songwriters have a knack for crafting hooky dance-pop that sounds as if it was made in 1990, not 1997. Half of the album rides by on mediocre songs and first-rate... Read More

Lisa Stansfield
Artist: Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield's long-awaited eponymous fourth album finds the blue-eyed soul singer at the top of her game, turning in a stylish set of smooth, disco-inflected dance-pop. The songs, from a cover of Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Never Gonna Fall" to the ballad "I Cried My Last Tear," are uniformly strong and Stansfield's... Read More

B*Witched
Artist: B*Witched
Community Score: 8.33

The Dublin-based teen quartet B*Witched often comes off like junior Spice Girls with its bouncy beats, singalong tunes and chipper attitude on its self-titled debut album. And with songs that span the Spicey gamut from starry-eyed ballads ("To You I Belong") to radio-ready pop ("Blame It on the Weatherman"), plus the fact that they all dress... Read More