David Guetta’s album, Nothing but the Beat, is a strong mix of dance and House music that overall is only good as a party album.

Guetta, a French disc jockey (DJ), released Nothing but the Beat on August 26. The album is Guetta’s fifth, and the first disc contains 13 songs featuring a total of 16 additional artists. Guetta produced and mixed the songs while the vocals came from the others.

The collaborations on Nothing but the Beat add a significant amount of star power to the album, which will draw in additional listeners for Guetta. The range of artists is wide, including will.i.am., Afrojack, and Jennifer Hudson, but the songs do not blend well together because the songs try to include the styles from all 16 artists, making the album lack one cohesive sound. Some of the most popular collaborators include Nicki Manaj, Taio Cruz, and Usher.

“I was excited to see Taio Cruz because right now he’s really popular through the high school. He was a nice surprise to see,” Jon Smith, senior, said. “A bigger surprise was Akon. He’s kind of died down in the past year, so to see him back in a song was surprising.”

With such a wide range of possibilities for sounds in electronic music, Guetta falls short of creativity. The beats and melodies in his songs often echo each other and the album can become dull without being in a party atmosphere. “Little Bad Girl” and “Sweat” do not vary from each other beyond the lyrics and some electronic effects, which start to sound like gimmicks after so many have been added to the album.

The third single released, ‘Without You,’ is one of the best on the album. Usher’s voice compliments Guetta’s mixing well, and the result is different from the rest of the sometimes repetitive album because the song seems natural instead of forced. The beat of the song is not good for dancing, but the emotion is evident in the lyrics.

“I liked “Without You.” It wasn’t like any of the other songs. It was upbeat but it was low-key,” Smith said.

Overall, Nothing but the Beat is not innovative and does not sound new compared to Guetta’s past albums. Despite lacking a fresh sound, the album is still good. The songs will make an appearance on party playlists for a little while, but do not seem as though they are good enough to continue to stick around for very long.