For 3,519 reviews, this publication has graded:
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81% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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18% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points higher than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 78
| Highest review score: | The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do | |
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| Lowest review score: | Playing With Fire |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
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Mixed: 407 out of 3519
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Negative: 27 out of 3519
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Just as surely as Justin brought sexy back, Kelly is bringing slightly creepy back.- Entertainment Weekly
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Pinkprint slogs through too many ponderous piano ballads, and it's a shame, because there are moments here that give flashes of that mad brilliance.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 18, 2014
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This vanilla artifact from Zep's massive 2007 reunion concert falls into all of the typical traps associated with live albums. [30 Nov 2012, p.73]- Entertainment Weekly
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''Glitter'' is a mess, but its shameless genre hopping (and Carey's crash) makes it an unintentional concept album about the toll of relentless careerism.- Entertainment Weekly
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- Posted Sep 3, 2014
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Anyone else offering up such hokum would do it with tongue fairly deep in cheek. Not Lenny Kravitz. [21 May 2004, p.76]- Entertainment Weekly
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Christopher Colonna's partly annoying, wholly unintelligible emceeing on ''Pony'' could not possibly prepare you for the nasal pseudosnarl of lady rapper Vila, who dominates the album's latter half.- Entertainment Weekly
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The tightly harmonized ballads that once lent them maturity are now garishly produced and lyrically insipid.- Entertainment Weekly
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The lone comic entry, the fetishist's tango "In These Shoes" cooks. The rest is blander than hospital food. [10/27/2000, p.120]- Entertainment Weekly
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What starts out as jubilant becomes four-on-the-floor purgatory. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]- Entertainment Weekly
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The former major-label casualty barely makes a dent in snoozy soft-rock tunes co-written by Kris Allen (''Raise Your Hand'') and James Blunt- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Dec 12, 2011
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Lord performs assertive power-pop melodies… but she sings them in a voice so airy and indifferent, it takes away their punch. [12 Mar 2004, p.112]- Entertainment Weekly
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On track after formulaic track, perfunctory verses rush into roaring refrains of compressed guitar arrgh and charmless didacticism. [7 Nov 2003, p.70]- Entertainment Weekly
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The Beatlesque affectations of Starr's recent discs have been replaced with determinedly bland '80s production, although there are still enough painfully underwritten peace 'n' love aphorisms to make even a Rip Van Winkle hippie wince.- Entertainment Weekly
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Awesome as F---, a live album, doubles as both a high-octane greatest-hits collection and a not-always-flattering portrait of the band's evolution from bratty Northern California punks to stadium-rock juggernaut.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted Mar 18, 2011
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The inescapable girlishness in her voice heightens the unlived-in quality of hackneyed, loverlorn ballads like "Desperately," the least desperate-sounding song of 2003. [Jun 27/Jul 4 2003, p.136]- Entertainment Weekly
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Some cuts have a quick sugar-high effect--once they fade, they're about as fresh as overchewed bubblegum. [7 Mar 2003, p.72]- Entertainment Weekly
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Hampered by lazy beats and an overabundance of world-music window dressing. [25 Feb 2005, p.102]- Entertainment Weekly
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A CD teeming with punchy choruses and crunchy guitars that are so five years ago.- Entertainment Weekly
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What was once edge now feels like random noise in place of melody. [11/24/2000, p.83]- Entertainment Weekly
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Too much of the album skews toward the dance floor rather than the bedroom. [11 Apr 2003, p.78]- Entertainment Weekly
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The record comes off like punk-rock outtakes for the heavily narcotized.- Entertainment Weekly
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A handful of uptempo highlights aside, the rest of the disc turns out to be an unduly generous helping of syrupy bedroom pleas that'll have you wishing Ginuwine had decided to keep some of those Thoughts to himself.- Entertainment Weekly
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Despite the star power she emits on screen, her vocals have always been less than stellar; on LOVE? she often sounds limited and nasal, with a flatness that can feel downright Rebecca Black-esque at its worst.- Entertainment Weekly
- Posted May 2, 2011
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Huey and his News tackle vintage tracks from the Stax library on this good-natured but unnecessary covers disc. [5 Nov 2010, p.71]- Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 4, 2010