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For 5,914 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: 3,630 out of 5914
  2. Mixed: 2,244 out of 5914
  3. Negative: 40 out of 5914
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Circle
    It does rock--if your idea of rock is Aerosmith doing Diane Warren songs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Keys To The World
    In trying to wrest profundity from simplicity, Keys to the World is only profoundly disappointing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    J. Lo
    Most of the songs on J.Lo, for all their craftsmanship, are easy to trace to last year's hits. And while dance pop doesn't necessarily demand great singers, Lopez is just scraping by.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Seventy Two & Sunny
    Country-crossover schmaltz.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Slipway Fires
    Most of the time, the lyrics are vague and unformed, and when they aren't, the band's lyrical details seem too singularly British to translate.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Back Home
    Alas, if you're looking for Slowhand to ignite the pyrotechnics, forget it.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This Is Me... Then
    Most of the songs are pitched too high for her register, the production sounds cheap, and love has dulled whatever street edge she might have had.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pressure Chief
    Only a handful of tracks -- including "No Phone" and the surprisingly sweet "She'll Hang the Baskets" -- push pleasure buttons like they ought to.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Devil's Playground
    The results are much better than his 1993 sci-fi shark jump, Cyberpunk, and so it automatically counts as the best thing he's done since "Cradle of Love."
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pop Trash
    The well-named Pop Trash shows off their jaded hooks and nasty wit; it's for fans only, but those of us who still crumple at the opening hiccups of "Hungry Like the Wolf" will be glad for another fix.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Incredible Machine
    Sugarland are ruthless in their desire to leave no radio-ready trick untried, but in the end it's too much machine, not enough heart.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Disconnection Notice
    Long on rote melodies and slickly produced SoCal stomp.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Latest Record Project, Vol. 1
    On the vast majority of Latest Record Project, he’s resorted to presenting off-the-cuff emotional reactions (and similarly tossed-off arrangements) as though they’re finished products. The result is a sometimes amusing, sometimes frustrating, sparsely thrilling, and largely unlistenable collection of rants and riffs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brave
    The club, not love, is her salvation, as she proves on 'Do It Well,' the only track that lets J. Lo do her thing: dance.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Size Matters
    The sludge is so overbearing that anyone born during the Eighties will wonder what once made them special. [28 Oct 2004, p.103]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Matthew Morrison
    Verdict: a mildly charming, sometimes gawky LP that will please Gleeks and befuddle everyone else.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    New Glow
    The cuteness starts to wear thin pretty fast.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unpredictable
    When the album works, it's because of Foxx's easy charm and A-list confidence.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    20 Y.O.
    Almost all of the tunes here (particularly "So Excited") try to replicate Jackson's early work, with diminishing returns.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Declaration
    On her fourth album, she's still doing the diva-by-numbers thing, alternating between angry-at-her-man anthems and lovey pleasantry.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    5.0
    He essays a few fashionably global-sounding electro-club tracks, including an Auto-Tuned one with T-Pain and Akon, and at least four numbers where he swipes guys' girlfriends. Keri Hilson and Kelly Rowland help him stretch out; Plies, Yo Gotti and T.I. add muscle
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Driving A Million
    Ultimately, Gwenmars is a Xerox of a Xerox, but this melodic, very big facsimile remains very listenable, indeed.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
    The album's latter half contains some welcome pop moments--'Nothingtown' and 'Let's Hear It for Rock Bottom' make going nowhere in life sound like hot fun--but the standout melodies often take a back seat to the diatribes, and Holland doesn't back up his disaffection with many good reasons to rally behind him.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vultures 1
    Vultures is a serviceable record. The production, in typical post-My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy fashion, is sparse. While it won’t be confused for a masterpiece, it shows that West is still good at being a producer. He puts Ty Dolla Sign in position to sound as bubbly as he’s been since the Obama era.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    In My Mind
    Next to guests Jay-Z, Snoop and Slim Thug, Pharrell's playa-playa croon gets tiresome.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    City Beach
    Much of City Beach is sort of bland and a little corny.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    F.A.M.E.
    F.A.M.E. is a pop 'n' b album with something for everyone: bedroom ballads, dance-floor thumpers and even "Next 2 You," a puppy-love declaration with guest vocals by Justin Bieber.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Destiny Fulfilled
    Despite a handful of strong cuts, Destiny Fulfilled sounds like the kind of album you make when you're saving your best material for your next solo album.
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