When she released her EP Tina Show in 2018, few would have predicted that Megan Thee Stallion would become such a musical blockbuster two years later even though her talent aroused much interest. After Cardi B took her under her wing signing her to 200 Entertainment, she released her critically acclaimed album Fever in 2019, then the hits Diamond and WAP in 2020 which opened the way for a real coup de force: this album Good News. Hers is an exemplary, flawless trajectory, well marketed and thought out. But true talents rarely faulter. With such a fluid rise to fame, we wouldn’t be surprised if Good News, a collection of inevitable future hits, turns out to be a Grammy-winning album. Its raw, trap aspects and slapping TR-808 instrumentals (Do It on the Tip, Movie) make for a satisfying outlet interspersed with a variety of different ideas. An almost disco-funk sound can be heard on Don’t Rock Me to Sleep as well as impeccable rapping on top of high-pitched soul samples on Circles (which samples Jazmine Sullivan’s Holding You Down), and industrial elements on Don’t Stop featuring the unmissable Young Thug… There is also something profoundly retro about this album, especially in the very 2000-sounding instrumentals as heard on Sugar Baby. Raw electronic sounds are plentiful and humanize the phenomenal Megan Thee Stallion and her unstoppable rise. © Brice Miclet/Qobuz