In my defense

"For the majority of the project, Azalea is either rapping about her haters or desperately trying to crank out a sex-positive twerk anthem. The album opens with "Thanks I Get," a generic trap song that has her demanding gratitude for her alleged contributions to the culture. She raps on the chorus, "I'm the one that had to show you how to grind/ I'm the one and only, I'm one of a kind." Though Azalea is hardly the first artist to be so blatantly delusional, "Thanks I Get" has her coupling these grandiose claims with really boring music".

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"The Australian rapper returns with her first album in five years, sounding not just unrepentant but also tediously uninterested in any kind of growth whatsoever ... Iggy is talented: a four-time Grammy nominee with the vocal toolkit and dancefloor command that allowed her to jump on and invigorate hits. (On "Fancy," she handily eclipsed Charli XCX, a feat that few of Charli's collaborators have managed.) But talent isn't an excuse, and on this album, it's almost irrelevant".

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