Confident, conflicted, and, above all, a lot of fun to listen to

Sixteen tracks and not a single guest. That is unusual for a major-label pop album in 2026 and it is clearly deliberate, particularly from someone whose breakout single was built around a rapper’s verse

Tinashe turns the pressures of chasing pop stardom into a record built for the dancefloor

This popstar is ready to blossom into the megastar she deserves to be and this exceptional album should be the one to do it

On Popstar, Tinashe remains at the front of the class, teaching material she has known long enough to deliver with her eyes closed

For all of her career, Tinashe has questioned what it means to be a popstar, and here, she does so explicitly. But Popstar is less of a thesis statement than a coming to terms with the identity she's chosen for herself

The musician’s eighth full-length combines some of her most experimental, genre-blending sounds with her stickiest hooks on an autobiographical trip through stardom and celebrity

Tinashe’s eighth album is her best and bravest yet: more ambitious, more focused, and effortlessly in touch with the zeitgeist. It’s the best pop album of the year

American R&B artist expands her palette and subverts expectation on liberatingly chaotic and fun eighth album

Tinashe is no longer chasing approval. Instead, she’s bold, unpigeonholeable and certain of who she is as a person and artist