I was on the wikipedia page for Teenage Dream and it said the album got mixed to positive reviews and I was shocked honestly thought it had very positive reviews considering how successful the era was

since when did critical acclaim translate into sales?

Are you 12?

The album just isn't good.

Success doesn't factor into that. They're completely independent of one another.

Critical acclaim tends to facilitate less sales, not more, but even then, there's no relation

Some tracks such as Teenage Dream was so good but honestly 80% of the tracks in that album were bad mte. The fact the albums sold well because most of the singles smashed. If the singles underperform or flop, Teenage Dream will end up tragically

Teenage Dream didn't get great reviews because when you get into it its not a great pop album from certain perspectives. What it is though, is an accessible pop record that was easily marketable and easily digested. It has some catchy hooks, a guilty pleasure to some/most, but its not like it was actually a flawless album. You'd have to be daft to think airplay means critical adoration. Even most of its hit singles aren't technically that great. Katys success majorly, imo, relies on the fact that shes shoved down everyones throats and shes too inoffensive for anyone to bother fighting it.

Are you 12?

Pop perfection.

What I was planning to say here has already been said, so I’ll leave it at that

It's inconsistent.

too ahead of its time

It wasn't a good album

Its just not a good album, bar a couple of songs like E.T. & TD.

Because it was super generic. That's not a bad thing IMO and it's my 2nd favorite album, but critics picked it apart for that. Plus, it came from an artist with prior poor reviews. I'm sure if other artists had released it, it would ba a bit higher. It deserved more.

I'm sorry, but this post makes literally no sense