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For 5,921 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Magic
Lowest review score: 0 Know Your Enemy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,636 out of 5921
  2. Mixed: 2,245 out of 5921
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5921
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Persona
    Pharrell Williams and Dre of Cool and Dre provide the same synth beats they probably offered Raven-Symoné, and guest MC Missy Elliott outshines the Queen, who's so bored she's rapping about exhaustion.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tourist
    Swooning song-poetry and Coldplay karaoke over electronics-tinged arrangements that sound very pro forma.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fan of a Fan: The Album
    Fan of a Fan has its share of low-end R&B bangers.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Love?
    The reality of Jennifer Lopez is...blah.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lost And Found
    Syncopated sludge that will connect only with aging burnouts and the angriest of young 'uns.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Authentic
    Not "authentic"--amiable.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Earth To The Dandy Warhols
    Too often, Earth sounds like the Dandys have too many toys — or maybe too many ideas.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chapter 1: Snake Oil
    Playful spirit is in short supply on a record where club beats, acoustic strumming, and parched guitar lines usually get siphoned into unobtrusively earnest background pop. [Jun 2020, p.71]
    • Rolling Stone
      • Posted Jun 3, 2020
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lulu
    Things can get ponderous once Metallica start impatiently stomping, but often they turn Reed's pretensions into something muscular.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Forever
    It's been almost five years since England's Spice Girls had people smiling or sneering. Their third album, Forever, will probably provoke a reaction somewhere in the middle -- with one exception, it's just OK.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shape Shifter
    [Shape Shifter] has moments of s**t-hot playing (see the smeared runs on "Metatron"). But the arrangements, oversweetened with too many synthesizers, lean toward lite jazz.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A.K.A.
    Beyond summer-anthem contender "I Luh Ya Papi," Lopez supplements flat production from names like RoccStar with forgettable verses from rappers like T.I.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Blood In My Eye
    As refreshing as it is to hear Ja do something besides the singing approximation he's been practicing the past few years, the boasts here feel utterly tired.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    EP-1
    At 48, Pixies singer Black Francis has either lost or abandoned his flair for sounding like the most unhinged man in indie rock.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Good Morning Revival
    Another album that gets further away from the band's core appeal.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hannicap Circus
    Flaccid beats mean that his solo debut -- despite guest spots from Eminem and Big Boi -- too often falls flat.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mission Accomplished [EP]
    The four songs on his latest EP, Mission Accomplished, continue to wander down that same fascinating but frustrating road to nowhere.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Imperial Blaze
    Paul said in 2007 that his next disc would focus on youth violence in Jamaica, but there's little sign of that on the party-hearty Imperial Blaze, which is full of snazzy electro beats and tunes that sound like pale versions of past hits.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Generation
    A largely vocals-free mishmash of brittle beats, buzzy sound effects and hipster ambience that sounds great when Dizzee Rascal is rhyming over it but cold and tinny on its own.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Charmbracelet
    Tempos plod, and hooks are few.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    God Did
    Listening to Khaled’s albums is like searching for blessings amidst the chaff, and the signal-to-noise ratio is generally low. But God Did isn’t as torturously bad as, say, 2019’s Father of Asahd.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Memories: Do Not Open
    Riddled with resentment and lyrics that land with a self-serious thud, Memories is a stunningly drab record. For the most part songs plod along at a strenuously mid-tempo pace, and are mostly lacking in any sonic detail that would reward closer listening.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
    For the most part, the songs come off as slightly vague sketches for U2 songs. The theater-trained singers sound stiff when they try Bono-worthy emoting.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It Had to Be You... The Great American Songbook
    Here, he sings against syrupy, obvious orchestral arrangements, driven by a beat that sometimes seems on the verge of a nap -- all of which encourages Stewart's worst habits: He sounds lazy, glib and uninvolved, just the opposite of when he still mattered.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    iSouljaBoyTellem
    The beats on iSouljaBoyTellem--built by Soulja and Mr. Collipark--are beefier. And Soulja Boy's willingness to drill songs into your skull is less charming.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cosmos Rocks
    Queen 2.0 are competent enough to rock arenas, but don't expect a repeat of the glory days.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Somethin' 'Bout Kreay
    The Oakland MC's debut explores her skill at giving hormonally bonkers post-Odd Future shock rap a bratty, ashtray-Madonna spin.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All The Right Reasons
    All the Right Reasons is so depressing, you're almost glad Kurt's not around to hear it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    14 Shades Of Grey
    Part of the problem is the thoroughly unimaginative production, a procession of soft-loud modern-rock cliches that breaks up the ho-hum guitar bashing with acoustic interludes and strings.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Day Without Rain
    If Enya were a Pokemon, she'd be Jigglypuff, the little pink monster who renders her opponents powerless by singing them to sleep.... The Irish multi-instrumentalist-singer-composer's skill at ephemeral sonic watercolors has grown wearisome, like a relative who tells the same stories every holiday.
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