Selena Gomez Stars Dance

On her first solo album the preceding three were credited to Selena Gomez and the view – this 21-year-old actor/singer has a there-but-not-there value reminiscent of Britney Spears. You don't expect lacerating familiarity from a previous Disney celebrity, but Gomez fails to impose so much as a trace of character: from the electro-punk opener anniversary onward, she's competent and solely impersonal. But that's no impediment to enjoying the record, which darts effectively from EDM to Bollywood to Beliebers, look away now sappiness motivated by her on-off beau, Justin Bieber. Gomez assuredly carves out a part of the dance-pop terrain overridden by Rihanna and Beyoncé, and that encompasses the sexing-up of lyrics (it's tame stuff, though: "Can't believe my body's still moving, we must be doing certain thing right" and so on). On the chirpy reggae/soca number Like a Champion, her reedy vocals are a dead ringer for Rihanna's, though that's eclipsed by her likeness to Miley Cyrus on arrive & Get It. Gomez's tweeny public should be beginning to outgrow her, but Stars promenade is vibrant sufficient to hold them trusted a bit longer.

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