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Celeb News: PRISM Reviews: 61/100
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Metascore
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Generally positive reviews based on 25 critics
The follow-up to the record-breaking Teenage Dream and fourth studio release for Katy Perry includes production from Dr. Luke, Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, StarGate, and Greg Wells.
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The Telegraph (UK) – 100
Original score: 5/5
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She sounds like a woman, and an artist, who’s finally found herself.
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The Line of Best Fit – 85
Original score: 8.5/10
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Prism shows a more mature side to the singer, an ability to really connect with her experiences whilst still producing absolute pop smashes. It’s a combination that suits her very, very well.
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Billboard – 83
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With a string of hit singles under her belt, Perry has aspired to create a multi-faceted full-length and has consummately succeeded.
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Entertainment Weekly – 83
Original score: B+
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Katy Perry aims to please. But now she grasps that she's making the mainstream, not just swimming in it.
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Boston Globe – 80
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It is Perry 101: heart-on-sleeve ballads, bouncy party anthems, and brawny odes to respecting yourself.
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Los Angeles Times – 75
Original score: 3/4
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Prism has neither fat nor pretense. In its own masterful way, in fact, Perry's new work contains as much of-the-moment sonic surprise as any other modern pop album this year.
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TinyMixTapes - 70
Original score: 3.5/5
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It doesn’t require the patience or emotional/intellectual involvement that albums I typically listen to require. The cool thing, though, is that it does have quite a bit of redeeming value.
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Consequence of Sound – 70
Original score: 3.5/5
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While neither Perry nor Prism push any boundaries for pop music, they certainly raise bars.
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Rolling Stone – 60
Original score: 3/5
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Perry has always done a great job of letting us know she's in on the joke of pop stardom. Sadly, she doesn't always bring that same sense of humor and self-awareness to the joke of pop-star introspection. The album's raft of ripe-lotus ballads is larded with Alanis-ian poesy she can't pull off.
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NOW Magazine – 60
Original score: 3/5
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Perry’s ballads are so unadventurous and heavy-handed (chiming U2 guitars and slow-building, reverbed drums), they start to feel like caricature anyway. Her approach works better on the feel-good half of the album made up of top-notch roller-disco anthems.
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The Guardian – 60
Original score: 3/5
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The single Roar is ruthlessly efficient in its bid to get the drunk and recently dumped member of the girls' night out party up on the table, using her WKD bottle as a microphone, and the rest of the album follows suit: if the ballads are standard issue, the faintly trap-inspired Dark Horse sounds like a hit single, as does Birthday and, for better or worse, the new jack swing parody This Is How We Do.
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Slant Magazine – 60
Original score: 3/5
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She largely sticks to her tried-and-true pop template, each song tailor-made for mass consumption with mixed results.
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The Independent (UK) – 60
Original score: 3/5
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Although it is largely the entirely predictable modern dance-pop creation you might expect from production-line hit maestros Max Martin and Dr Luke, Katy Perry deserves some credit for injecting a modicum of originality into Prism.
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All Music Guide – 60
Original score: 3/5
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Prism [is] a tighter, cleaner record than its predecessors--there are no extremes here, nothing that pushes the boundaries of either good taste or tackiness.
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musicOMH.com – 60
Original score: 3/5
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There is no doubt that Prism will do exactly what it’s been created to do (sell millions, provide the backdrop for a lucrative tour and make a lot of money for a lot of people) but it’s safe and cold where it should have been daring and involving.
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The Observer (UK) – 60
Original score: 3/5
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Many of these more, ahem, contemplative songs may be thin on Perry's former playfulness and long on the stuff of Eckhart Tolle, but a kind of girly simpatico sustains them and transfers easily to the stronger tracks, where Perry's back in the game.
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The A.V. Club – 58
Original score: C+
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As a whole, Prism is forgettable. It’s neither good nor bad, and it’s not inspirational enough to set anyone on fire who’s not already an 11-year-old girl, closeted teen boy, or existing Perry fanatic.
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Chicago Tribune – 50
Original score: 2/4
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Though not exactly spiritual, Prism does come off as a more serious--if no less formulaic--album than its predecessor. But being taken seriously may be Perry’s greatest challenge yet.
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Spin – 50
Original score: 5/10
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This is a pivot, this record, and a shrewd one, but "shrewd" and "boring" are not mutually exclusive.
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Absolute Punk – 45
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An album with too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough good songs to recommend.
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Pretty Much Amazing – 42
Original score: C-
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Prism does have two bright moments of success when everything comes together and we get a glimpse of the better-written album that could have been. First is opener “Roar.”... Meanwhile, on the mostly lackluster Side B, there’s another empowerment anthem, “Love Me,” that’s the polar opposite of “Roar” in nearly every other way.
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The Independent on Sunday (UK) – 40
Original score: 2/5
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Self-help and sauce remain the remit, which might have been less tiring if “Roar”, “Walking on Air” and “This Moment” offered forms fresher than, respectively, the robo-stutter of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”, weary Italo-house pianos and strenuous stadium bluster to enliven their empowerment-speak.
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No Ripcord – 40
Original score: 4/10
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Self-help and sauce remain the remit, which might have been less tiring if “Roar”, “Walking on Air” and “This Moment” offered forms fresher than, respectively, the robo-stutter of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”, weary Italo-house pianos and strenuous stadium bluster to enliven their empowerment-speak.
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PopMatters – 40
Original score: 4/10
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There is little in the way of actual technique or subtlety, and as an album, Prism falls short of its predecessors in the innovation and charisma department.
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Q Magazine – 40
Dec 2013, p.110
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Prism feels transitional, the work of an artist clever enough to be restless, yet unable to split from a winning formula.
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Metascore history
Based on 4 critics - 73
Based on 5 critics - 72
Based on 6 critics - 70
Based on 13 critics - 60
Based on 14 critics - 60
Based on 15 critics - 62
Based on 19 critics - 63
Based on 21 critics - 63
Based on 22 critics - 63
Based on 23 critics - 62
Based on 24 critics - 63
Based on 25 critics - 61
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only 1 review
edit: oh nvm
i hope this gets a 70+ on metacritic
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Lemme perch 
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Not bad tbh. Let's wait for the rest of the reviews.
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It's almost here 
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I can feel you sis
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Yasssss @ disco being all over the album. Here for her best vocals. And nnnnnnnnn at the drag for playing it safe for the radio hits.
Good review tho. 
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The California girl shows she doesn’t need a man by her side to reign over the charts.
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Oh
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This will be definitely Katy's most acclaimed album ... coming for 67+
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Get that 60/100 Kathy
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She better come for that 60s Metascore. Get that critical... acclaim.
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Comin' at ya like a Dark Horse for that acclaim.
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Queen 
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3/5? that would be a 60 in Metacritic, which is what I've been guessing the album would end up having.
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Perched.
Edit: Mess with The Telegraph giving it a 5/5, if it wasn't for that the album would be around 60. I think it should be around a 68-65, I like it, and it is better than TD or OOTB, but it is pretty generic/safe.
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