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Paris

EMAILPRINTby Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton reviews
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3.6 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 17 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 118 votes
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Album Info

Label: Warner Bros

Release Date: 22 August 2006

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Pop

Summary

The heiress and reality television semi-star covers Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" (answer: no) and duets with Jadakiss on her recording debut.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

90

All Music Guide

Paris makes no apologies for being mass-market pop, but everybody involved made sure that this was well-constructed mass-market pop.

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75

Entertainment Weekly

You may hate what she stands for, but don't let that keep you off the dance floor.

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70

Dot Music

It's no pop masterpiece to rival The Beatles, Madonna or Michael Jackson's best. But then again, few things are. If however the bench marks are Aguilera and Pink, it's only fair to say that Ms Hilton or rather her album, holds its own.

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70

Billboard

An enjoyable pop romp.

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67

E! Online

Listening to her debut album, you get the feeling that she breezed in and out of the studio.

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60

Q Magazine

She's convinced an army of writers and producers... to furnish her with above-average R&B to pant suggestively over. [Sep 2006, p.108]

60

Observer Music Monthly

Like a silly holiday cocktail with umbrellas and sparklers, there is much to enjoy about Paris Hilton, albeit for one mad Med fortnight only.

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60

Rolling Stone

Why settle for pseudosleaze like Peaches when Paris delivers the real thing? [21 Sep 2006, p.82]

60

Vibe

Shockingly, Paris the vocalist is actually listenable; no Gwen Stefani, but better than, say, K-Fed. [Oct 2006, p.151]

50

Blender

A few fast, punky songs suit her pout, but more than anything, Hilton makes celebrity sound boring.

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50

Slant Magazine

What's most surprising about Paris's album is that it's really not all that bad; released by any other, ahem, artist, it would likely earn better notices than recent albums by the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, or Ashlee Simpson--not that that's really saying much.

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50

Stylus Magazine

If an army of songwriters and million-dollar producers can make Paris Hilton listenable, even for only 38 minutes, then no one else with a major-label budget behind them has any excuse.

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40

Uncut

Lavishly appointed, expensively designed and almost entirely characterless. [Sep 2006, p.84]

38

Los Angeles Times

Like cotton candy, the food group she most resembles, what may seem like a mouthful for a moment is gone in the blink of an eye, leaving a sweet aftertaste and empty calories behind. [22 Aug 2006]

30

The Guardian

She sings like a woman who has heard of something called singing, can't be sure of exactly what it might entail, but is fairly certain you do something a bit like this. She sounds both distracted and bored stiff, as if making an album is keeping her from the more serious business of standing around a nightclub in a pair of really enormous sunglasses.

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20

musicOMH.com

The bits which 'aren't bad' are the bits which don't involve Ms Hilton.

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20

NOW Magazine

Though Storch and other heavy hitters do their best to craft reasonable facsimiles of a broad range of Today's Best Dance-Pop Hits, they can't hide the fact that Hilton's a shit singer who can't carry a tune even when the vocal melody is reproduced note-for-note in the arrangements.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 3.6 (out of 10) based on 118 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Emilio O. gave it a0:
How can it be a good album if it has no emotions? Real music comes from the heart.

Sean P. gave it a0:
Why would any merciful god allow such trash to exist? With so many great artists and bands out there why waste your money on music that has no soul or emotion The musical equivalent of nothing, because that's what's at the heart of this piece of crap excuse for music.

Victor B. gave it a1:
Being catch is not a bad thing for songs, but there's just a few songs which you could really listen and probably like it cause they're ''cool''...Paris got to improve.

Javier D. gave it an8:
I think that more of the 90% who is scoring this album with less than 4 doesn0t even listened the Cd, They are only scoring with bad grades because of their hate to Paris but the true is that this Cd is really good , maybe her voice is not great but the melodies are really good and happy . To bad that some people don't give a chance to her album.

Edward H gave it a10:
She rox y'all fell in luv wit "Stars are Blind" and all her songs are sooo like awesome and rad Paris is so freekin' awesome wit her album 4 reel. and production by Scott Storch super beat maker and producer is another awesome point bout diz totally rad ass album. You Rule P 4 Lyfe!

brian n gave it a0:
why is this embaressingly trite piece of self-absorbent pop trash doing on a respected site like metacritic? if you are even reading this review for any other purpose than to take a piss, find some better taste. paris's album is pure dogcrap.

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
It's a fantastic album! It's the best album in the world!

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