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For 789 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 One Day I'm Going To Soar
Lowest review score: 20 Last Night on Earth
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 495 out of 789
  2. Mixed: 280 out of 789
  3. Negative: 14 out of 789
789 music reviews
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Britney Jean
    It’s depressing to find more of the disco-tooled super-producer [will.i.am] same here, allied to faintly atypical ballads that, nonetheless, add little to Spears’s synthetic sex-doll sheen.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    #willpower
    Even without the unpleasant association of the Chris Brown guest slot here, #willpower (we're letting people hashtag their album titles now?) is a charmless listen.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Borrell 1
    He sounds utterly burnt out. Poor.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No End
    Mostly No End sounds like pretty much anyone noodling about in their shed.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sorry for Party Rocking
    Taken in individual portions, they're a refreshing jolt to the system, but a whole album's worth feels like being force-fed a gallon of Sunny Delight.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shape Shifter
    Mostly it's clichéd Pelion heaped on cheesy Ossa in a mountain range of sickly gestures.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Female Boss
    Like most pop albums, it's front-loaded. The banging club tunes, like the chart-topping "Young" are at the start, then it slumps into a series of obligatory ballads on which her unremarkable voice is somewhat stretched.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Famous First Words
    This debut is so lame, it makes the Beady Eye album sound like Let It Bleed.
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