A classic case of artists moving to a new pastures and audience criticizing them for not staying the same.
Just listen to symphonic opening of "Europe" and you can imagine everybody looking around in surprise,because this wasn't disco pop like "Heart of Glass" or even one of their clever 1960s pastiches - but than,considering their genre hopping,what exactly was "Blondie" sound and can we ever pigeon hole them?
To their defence ,"Blondie" served audience with a two strong hits ("The tide is high" and Rapture") but it became obvious they were losing the steam or simply were not so interested in pursuing pop anymore. Debbie Harry sounds like a dream (as she always has) but overall the album sounds a bit pointless and uninspired. Once they reached the peak of pop charts,everything was downhill from there.
Most interesting: 1920s number "Here's looking at you"
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