Everything Sucks
by Princess Nokia
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Q Magazine
    Mar 10, 2020
    80
    Princess Nokia's genre-surfing might be attention-grabbing, but it's her honesty, openness and clarity of expression that make her a musician you can really invest in. [May 2020, p.111]
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  2. The Independent (UK)
    Mar 9, 2020
    80
    Recorded over a week in New York, Everything Sucks is the brash, unapologetic sister to the more sensitive Everything is Beautiful.
  3. The Quietus
    Mar 13, 2020
    70
    Everything is Beautiful/Everything Sucks is a fun album that allows Frasqueri to show both sides of her personality. ... The main problem with Everything is Beautiful/Everything Sucks is that it doesn’t contain anything as devastating as ‘G.O.A.T.’, ‘Tomboy’ or ‘Kitana’. The songs never quite hit the same vein of intensity, catchiness and lyrical abstraction. There are moments when it comes close.
  5. musicOMH.com
    Mar 9, 2020
    70
    The decision to segregate different moods and styles into these contrasting releases was a risky one, but it pays off in that both records remain interesting for their duration. Princess Nokia is for the most part a great rapper, but can sometimes lapse into an artless earnestness, as this enjoyable but patchy diptych demonstrates.
  6. Pitchfork
    Mar 9, 2020
    67
    Everything Sucks was made primarily in the span of one intense week in New York, with friend and producer Chris Lare (aka owwwls), and that tight turnaround is evident. Its 10 songs are a locust swarm of angst, restless and frantic.
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    Mar 9, 2020
    60
    There are moments of brilliance on both records. ... Thematically, ‘Everything Sucks’ and ‘Everything is Beautiful’ fail to deliver anything new.

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6.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. clem666
    Dec 3, 2020
    7
    The first half of the album really seem like a noisy and glaring draft. This part clearly made me lower the score. The second half is moreThe first half of the album really seem like a noisy and glaring draft. This part clearly made me lower the score. The second half is more agreable to listen to. Lyrically, Princess Nokia doesn't disappoint us: she is still sharp, precise and intelligble, even if she barely reaches the harshness of her former album 1992 (with titles like 'Brujas', 'Mine' or 'Kitana'). Production and instrumentals are awesome as they always were in a Princess Nokia piece of work, and are perfectly oriented to a darker style and lyrics.
    The idea of publishing a double album the same day is brilliant and makes a lot of sens in Princess Nokia's experience of life.    … Full Review »
  2. Simao
    Oct 1, 2020
    5
    why does she sound like gabbie hanna on some of these songs....

    the album is kinda bland :/
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