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Celeb News: 'Electra Heart' album reviews
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I think her song 'Oh No' actually sums up this album very nicely...in more ways than one.
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Originally posted by Pop pop123
Both are terrible albums, and the public certainly does not "want" it considering the sales of these 2 albums.
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Teenage Dream sold well. But try to stay on topic. Okay?
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Originally posted by Moonage Daydream
I agree that this wasn't pulled off the way a concept album should've been. This is probably the album's biggest drawback and the reason why it's getting dragged a lot more than it deserves to be.
But The Quietus' review (a negative one at that) was one of the very few to actually mention Marina's explanation for the concept behind the album, so it's clearly not above some journalists to do their homework before reviewing an album.
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Hey Moonage! I forgot about this thread! You are right, critics should be more precise and not so general. So I guess Marina and Critics reviewing the album should learn this lesson: Be more precise of what you want to explain be it an album or a review.
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I think some people are forgetting that a music critic's job is to review the artist's album, not the artist's interviews and tumblr.
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She sounds so much like Katy Perry. I guess she was destined to work with Dr Luke
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Absolute bull. EH>TFJ and I love both so ****ing much. Don't really care about the members here trolling around. Most people nowadays don't listen to good music anyway.
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Originally posted by marchesa
I think she was better more underground, but Charlie XCX has taken that crown now, she just doesn't seem to have convinced everyone that this is a genuine Marina album, and I do think that the Lana comparrisons are valid, whilst I know she has the whole Hollywood thing going on before, she was that but fierce as hell, and her timing was terrible with the whole Americana prom queen thing when Lana had been out there in full force for a while. I feel a little sorry for her actually, her timing just sucked and she did a stupid pretentious interview with pop justice which has ****ed it for her.
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COMPLETELY AGREE. I'd rather have my fave to be an underdog in this industry. She's still flawless.
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Originally posted by Electra&TheHearts
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Pitchfork finally reviewed ELectra Heart? I've been waiting for them to give it a mediocre review forever now! (goes and looks for it) FOUND IT! yep, same mediocre review they give to every decent pop act or band who doesn't sound like indie garbage!
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Originally posted by iseeyouupsidedown
Pitchfork finally reviewed ELectra Heart? I've been waiting for them to give it a mediocre review forever now! (goes and looks for it) FOUND IT! yep, same mediocre review they give to every decent pop act or band who doesn't sound like indie garbage!
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Now remember as Mean Trees, Jameson Teqkilla, Sammi et al have continually stated a critic's review of an album is like a judgement straight from God, reviews are gospels and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong, no other way about it, you are in the wrong if you like an album critics dislike.
Critics are infallible, so when they say Born To Die is better than Electra Heart they mean exactly that! That Electra Heart deserves a better score than Born To Die
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Originally posted by Electra&TheHearts
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That's because the reviewers were by two different people. You see, more than one critic works for each publication.
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I think you're having trouble comprehending my posts, so I'll try to explain myself a little more clearly:
A review is someone's opinion. This person usually has a decent amount of knowledge on music, and is employed by a magazine or website to give their opinion on an album. Because everyone has different tastes and opinions, a critics score may line up with your own opinion of an album, be entirely the opposite, or somewhere in between.
That's where the advantage of Metacritic comes in. It gives you an aggregate of how ALL critics, aka people PAID to be knowledgeable of music and give their opinions on it, feel about it. Naturally, any logical person can see that there will people who dislike the album more than the average given, and there will also be people who like it more than the average given.
However, just as people who think it deserves a lower score must accept that people like an album they dislike, people who like it need to accept that perhaps the critics were simply giving their honest opinion on an album, as they were paid to do, instead of spazzing the **** out.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
I think you're having trouble comprehending my posts, so I'll try to explain myself a little more clearly:
A review is someone's opinion. This person usually has a decent amount of knowledge on music, and is employed by a magazine or website to give their opinion on an album. Because everyone has different tastes and opinions, a critics score may line up with your own opinion of an album, be entirely the opposite, or somewhere in between.
That's where the advantage of Metacritic comes in. It gives you an aggregate of how ALL critics, aka people PAID to be knowledgeable of music and give their opinions on it, feel about it. Naturally, any logical person can see that there will people who dislike the album more than the average given, and there will also be people who like it more than the average given.
However, just as people who think it deserves a lower score must accept that people like an album they dislike, people who like it need to accept that perhaps the critics were simply giving their honest opinion on an album, as they were paid to do, instead of spazzing the **** out.
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I'm sorry, but if you give no opinion on the album and only talk about Marina and compare her to Lana and give us 2 sentences to base your review off of
I'm not gonna count that as an actual review
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Plus, Born To Die has NOTHING in comparison to EH
Both great albums, nothing alike. These critics need to stop.
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Plus, Born To Die has NOTHING in comparison to EH
Both great albums, nothing alike. These critics need to stop.
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Female singer-songwriter with unique lower register and a "character" style of sings teams up with superproducers for a pop album about bad love and the American dream.
Kanye shrug.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Female singer-songwriter with unique lower register and a "character" style of sings teams up with superproducers for a pop album about bad love and the American dream.
Kanye shrug.
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Lana didn't have super producers? Marina was already here too. Their sounds are nothing alike.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
I think you're having trouble comprehending my posts, so I'll try to explain myself a little more clearly:
A review is someone's opinion. This person usually has a decent amount of knowledge on music, and is employed by a magazine or website to give their opinion on an album. Because everyone has different tastes and opinions, a critics score may line up with your own opinion of an album, be entirely the opposite, or somewhere in between.
That's where the advantage of Metacritic comes in. It gives you an aggregate of how ALL critics, aka people PAID to be knowledgeable of music and give their opinions on it, feel about it. Naturally, any logical person can see that there will people who dislike the album more than the average given, and there will also be people who like it more than the average given.
However, just as people who think it deserves a lower score must accept that people like an album they dislike, people who like it need to accept that perhaps the critics were simply giving their honest opinion on an album, as they were paid to do, instead of spazzing the **** out.
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********.
Most critics are music snobs who trash anything by anyone who:
1. Cant like Whitney Houston/Celine Dion.
2. Is known/relevant.
3. Makes dance music.
A reputable critic would state WHY they dislike the album, not just say it sucks.
Secondly, Metacritic should include more reviews from more publications, not just ones known to purposely trash anything that isnt indie. They all dragged Lana and here they are praising her in reviews for OTHER ALBUMS.
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Originally posted by JonnyϟLightning
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Most critics are music snobs who trash anything by anyone who:
1. Cant like Whitney Houston/Celine Dion.
2. Is known/relevant.
3. Makes dance music.
A reputable critic would state WHY they dislike the album, not just say it sucks.
Secondly, Metacritic should include more reviews from more publications, not just ones known to purposely trash anything that isnt indie. They all dragged Lana and here they are praising her in reviews for OTHER ALBUMS.
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You must be trolling. I refuse to believe any rational person wouldn't be able to figure out this conundrum on their own.
Also, lots of pop and dance music get good metacritic averages. There are well-written reviews both positive and negative for Electra Heart. In fact, many are in the "average" realm. Y'all are just getting worked up over the extremes when that's the whole point of the system.
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
I think you're having trouble comprehending my posts, so I'll try to explain myself a little more clearly:
A review is someone's opinion. This person usually has a decent amount of knowledge on music, and is employed by a magazine or website to give their opinion on an album. Because everyone has different tastes and opinions, a critics score may line up with your own opinion of an album, be entirely the opposite, or somewhere in between.
That's where the advantage of Metacritic comes in. It gives you an aggregate of how ALL critics, aka people PAID to be knowledgeable of music and give their opinions on it, feel about it. Naturally, any logical person can see that there will people who dislike the album more than the average given, and there will also be people who like it more than the average given.
However, just as people who think it deserves a lower score must accept that people like an album they dislike, people who like it need to accept that perhaps the critics were simply giving their honest opinion on an album, as they were paid to do, instead of spazzing the **** out.
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But brother, why do indie trash acts always get critically acclaimed, the critics aren't paid to be snobs
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