For 1,598 reviews, this publication has graded:
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62% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 73
| Highest review score: | Dear Science, | |
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| Lowest review score: | The New Game |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,360 out of 1598
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Mixed: 176 out of 1598
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Negative: 62 out of 1598
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A glorified mix-tape... sprawling with lots of throwaway songs and loaded with interludes- Los Angeles Times
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Many of the same vices that plagued the first installment of "Shock Value" keep the second edition sodden as well: Tim's precise, micromanaged beats usually outshine his random collection of vocal collaborators.- Los Angeles Times
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Mostly, however, she's operating in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir end of the musical spectrum, with arrangements emphasizing massed orchestral and choral forces often overwhelming the songs.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 12, 2013
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The addition of superstar producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange to the mix ensures that everything here is as radio friendly and mainstream minded as heavy guitar rock gets.- Los Angeles Times
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He’s honed in on narrative songs that are well suited to a spoken delivery out of the Robert Preston-Rex Harrison-Richard Harris school of nonsinging actors. A delightfully dramatic outing.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 21, 2018
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The record is a failure, a virtual what-not-to-do guide for both songwriters and spurned lovers.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jul 2, 2014
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He does manage to out-Mumford and out-Sheeran his countrymen on the rustic single "Bonfire Heart" (ironically, co-written with super-pop penman Ryan Tedder). Whether you want to hear James Blunt plowing that field is a conversation between you and your god.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Nov 5, 2013
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- Posted Apr 24, 2013
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Hurries from one strangely unsatisfying sparkle to the next. [5 Jun 2005]- Los Angeles Times
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Nothing here is complicated or profound; melodies go where you expect them to, while dynamics follow the quiet-loud pattern Nirvana turned into a recipe. Yet there's an appealing guilelessness to Rossdale's writing that gives the predictable a whiff of universality.- Los Angeles Times
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There are a few glimmers of hope; Tisdale has said her heroes are Pat Benatar and Kelly Clarkson. But to succeed in the crowded hallways of teen pop, she'll have to be as fearless a misfit as those two bad girls--and not feel guilty about it in the morning.- Los Angeles Times
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Consider it a musical Snuggie for tottering Valley party girls--it will feel marvelous in the cold, drunken and lonely hours of the night.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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For all her lovesick panting, pleading and purring, Ashanti is never emotionally engaged with the songs, which aren't worth the trouble anyway. [2 Jan 2005]- Los Angeles Times
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The irony is that even though the sound itself is more "natural" than on most of Moby's previous work, the essence feels less organic and more calculated. [20 Mar 2005]- Los Angeles Times
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Persona is stylistically everywhere and yet it skips over some fruitful ground.- Los Angeles Times
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Overwrought with rap cliches, Fan of a Fan is a formulaic heaping of bouncy bangers primed for the strip clubs that likely inspired it. There isn't much here, besides expletive-filled musings on sex, drugs, cars, money and dangerous misogyny.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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Coming from a star whose weekly "Idol" pronouncements emphasize the value of charisma, "Love?" definitely disappoints.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted May 2, 2011
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- Posted Apr 30, 2013
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Despite all the work put into his workmanlike pop, it ultimately comes off as agreeable, but not memorable.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Jan 18, 2011
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It's the hip-hop energy Mary J. Blige and OutKast's Big Boi bring to "My Man" that makes the most of the assembled talent by relying on musical inspiration rather than marquee power. [30 Oct 2005]- Los Angeles Times
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It doesn't have the kind of force and power that would show the kids how it should be done.- Los Angeles Times
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The idea of Cornell's sex-god wail over Timbaland's mechanized funk is appealing. But Scream draws out the worst tendencies in both of them.- Los Angeles Times
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If anything, Chingy has regressed since his debut, and his initially fresh style now sounds old.- Los Angeles Times
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Instead of finding a different voice as a writer and producer of original material, Oakenfold seems trapped by dance-music genre conventions. [28 May 2006]- Los Angeles Times
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A handful of lovingly arranged power ballads were evidently designed to illuminate the singer's remorse over the Rihanna incident. Yet Brown doesn't seem up to the task of contrition.- Los Angeles Times
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- Posted Jul 3, 2012
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Three new tracks (including a dreamy take on the gospel standard "His Eye Is on the Sparrow") provide a glimmer of what Stone might accomplish if he ever rouses himself more fully.- Los Angeles Times
- Posted Aug 16, 2011
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"Rebirth" deserves its reputation as one of the worst albums of the year so far. With luck, Wayne will return to what he does best -- and soon.- Los Angeles Times
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