VicTORIous - Music from the Hit TV Show

So, yes, I did review this when it first dropped last year online, but with it’s official UK release coming recently, and in mind of the absolute hammering I have given this album in the past few months, it is deserving of another review on this blog.

Coming hot off the heels of the successful Nickelodeon show, based around a performing arts school in America, the original soundtrack of Victorious (VicTORIous) is something very special.

It is jam packed with pop hits, and you cannot deny just how infectious the album is as a whole. It sort of snuck up on me, but I found myself repeatedly spinning this record time and time again in the first few months of the year. It has really hooked me as a listener, and every time I listen to it, I still find the songs as infectious and catchy as ever. It is without a doubt one of my most listened to records of 2012 thus far.  

The first 6 tracks are phenomenal, and that is not something you often see on a record, where the first set of songs can grip you so intensely. In fact, I very often just listen to those first six tracks on repeat, which pretty much underline just how good they are. The opening track, the theme for the TV show is immense, and Make It Shine really does set the bar for everything else that follows.

Freak The Freak Out follows, with yet another smash hit chorus, before the first “single” Best Friend’s Brother locks in, with one of the most infectious refrains to be seen all year. It is one of the most addictive songs of the past few months, and you cannot deny that the lead singer, Victoria Justice (the main star of the show) is a real superstar in the vein of Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and all the rest. This girl has an incredibly bright future, and with this record, shows her talents off impeccably. Best Friends Brother is a perfect pop song, and is arguably the finest moment on an otherwise excellent record.

Continuing the early onslaught of pop hits is Beggin’ On Your Knees, All I Want Is Everything, and You’re The Reason. When it comes to perfect pop songs, they pretty much all fit the bill one way or the other. Elsewhere, other highlights come in the form of Finally Falling and the reprise of the theme song, merging with iCarly’s theme Leave It All  To Me (from a hybrid episode of the two shows), but which gives us Leave It All To Shine, which is another great song.

Some of the other songs may lack the power of the hits, but when the record as a whole is this good, it is hard to give it anything other than full marks.

A brilliant album.

10/10